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by tomjen3 3625 days ago
I am a Dane. I have twice received mail incorrectly sent to my current address. One was sent to somebody with a different name, to an address that was close to but not the same as my previous address, the other was to a person who may have lived here but was not the previous occupant.

This does not include the letters that should have gone to my neighbors but was put in the wrong letter box.

While I naturally assume this is deliberate I won't rule out that this is just complete incompetence.

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You noticed that they were misaddressed though, right?

Now imagine you work in an office handling personal identity papers and travel documents mishandling of which is probably a sack-able offense and possibly a criminal one too. Every piece of mail entering your address has to be date registered and properly redirected. Do you think you'd just open letters without looking at the address?