New tenant opened my mail (which contained sensitive data)

Could it be a mistake? I can easily imagine opening a stack of letters without looking at the front of each one carefully. I can see why you’re annoyed but I don’t think there’s much you can really do about it. I don’t believe it’s illegal to accidentally open somebody else’s post when it comes to your house and it would be impossible to prove any ill intent.

What remedy do you imagine you can get?

Are you the owner of the apartment in question?

You couldn't be bothered getting a redirection set up with An Post.

And now you want to make someone's life difficult because they opened a letter which was delivered to their house ?

Karma is a bitch.

The diabolical case of the man who nefariously opened a letter and then contacted the owner to make sure they knew about it...

At least its better than opening your mail, picking through it and then dumping it in the bin.

My 50 cent bet is that they did it by accident, and yes that does happen, even if you yourself could never see yourself doing it.

Even if they didn't, what exactly do you think can be done about it? A big fine for opening your mail despite the fact that you could not prove in court that it was them that opened it?

It was vehicled through a third party that you asked it to be vehicled through. What exactly do you want to happen?

The law is "A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him." It would be very difficult to prove the tenant did that, since it was delivered to their house and they contacted you to make sure you got the letter.

You consider that proof?

I'm the tenant, I say that it was opened when I got it, how do you prove me wrong?

Or, I'm the tenant, and I say it was still closed when I gave it to the concierge, how do you prove me wrong?

Fact is that you have no proof, just a bunch of supposition.

And remember, the guy you want to call a dirty liar actually can prove something, he can prove that he went out of his way to help you.

if a letter is delivered to the wrong address anybody at that address could have opened it. That includes visitors. It could have been opened before it came through the letterbox in the first place,Obviously if a person receives a letter addressed to another they get it to the person as promptly as possible. However, the person might be away from home, and others may have been in the property, You can never say for cerain who opened your letter so it's best to forget about it. If mail is not registered this can happen.

I think you have no chance of proving it was opened deliberately.

But you could complain to the bank who sent it to the wrong address.

OP - what is the outcome that you want here?

Be realistic .... firstly you can't be sure who even opened it, secondly you'll have absolutely no way to prove who did (unless they admit it) and thirdly - it has nothing to do with the landlord, management company or anyone one else. It is between you and the person who opened it.

So ... just chalk it up to experience

There is nobody to escalate this to who will care...

So what I have gathered from a lot of rambling is that your bank in the U.K. sent you a new bank card, you’re saying your tenant opened this letter and you want to do something about it?

The Postal Services Act 2000 clearly states that it is certainly illegal to open someone's post, or delay it reaching the owner.

The Act says: "A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."

You'll be hard pushed to prove which of the tenants opened the letter or even that one of them did at all and even harder pushed proving it was done at a detriment to yourself.

I’d move on if I were you.

OP, you’re allowed to be annoyed by this BUT it was more than likely an accident by the tenant. People are on auto pilot when doing mundane things like opening mail. Especially if they’ve moved in fairly recently, they’ll be getting a lot of mail from different suppliers/companies and just opening it one by one without looking. I’ve done it, and from the replies it’s fairly common. The consierge probably just didn’t want to say it was open so just say you were already aware. Also depending on the conversation between the consierge and the tenant, they coulda just said you were aware of the letter was there. Nothing about it being open.

Be annoyed, but there’s very little, if anything you can do about it. What is it that you’re looking for exactly?

Ironically thats more likely to be been seen as an offence, and easier to prove.

You could contact the specialist police department for people who accidently open other people letters.. there are 100s in the 'Joy doing a 10 stretch for this very crime..

This really. If it was a genuine mistake then you’d think the new tenant would have explained that he’d opened it without checking the name and apologise.

I think the person who opened the envelope was...Rebekah Vardy!

Time you got Wagatha Christie on to this. Bust the case wide open.

I was going to say the exact same.

Op, move on. Not worth the hassle and nothing will come about from it. It's the worst about renting and moving. Millions of people be in your boat each year moving then something private getting sent to the wrong address.

Yes, the bank is at fault. But I remember me dad talking about this issue when I was like 5. It's always happened and will always happen. If you still feel that you've been that wronged change banks.

I would have fucked your post in the bin if it was that long since you moved out. Be glad they contacted you.