Junk mail going to investment property

[Joe P.]

This probably qualifies as a non-issue for everyone, but my investment property is getting a TON of junk mail addressed to me, since I have a mortgage on the place. I'm talking about 2-3 pieces of mail PER DAY. And it's a little embarassing because if you look at the envelopes, they all say stupid things like "MORTGAGE PAYMENT - OPEN IMMEDIATELY". I get it -- its a non-issue, but my tenant sends me a note once a week telling me there is another stack waiting.

Clearly its all companies who want you to refinance, but its a little annoying for my tenant. Is there anyway I can redirect that mail to me before it gets to them? I was going to do the USPS Change of Address on their website, but that's not actually my home address, so I don't want to put a "move" notification and screw up something with my actual home mail.

[Chris Szepessy]

"Junk mail" doesn't get forwarded so a change of address wouldn't fix the issue anyway. I would just have the tenant put a a note on the mailbox that says something like "Only these people live here" and then list the first and last names of each person. That way the mailman just won't deliver it.