Is it legal to open mail addressed to your address but someone that doesn't live there?

How’s gonna know or punish you? I opened some recently then mailed it to the old occupant’s new address listed in the letter.

I will send you one this year

If it has my address I don't care if it says santa claus

Speaking as a rural carrier, if I put a letter in your box and it didn't belong to you and you opened it, no crime committed, no jail time.. just politely replace 'opened' mail back in the box and raise the flag, I'll get it to the right address second time around..

Doubtful

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If it's in your box, you own it.

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If that were true I would be a rich mofo. One of the major BR hospitals apparently has screwed up a data entry in whatever system they use to print checks and print the POSTNET barcode on the bottom of their envelopes.

Without fail every 14 days I get checks in my mailbox for a business in Hammond as the USPS sorts mail based on that barcode. After the third time I called the business (whose name and address is clearly visible in the envelope window) instead of trying to deal with the idiots in accounting in the hospital.

The rightful recipient of the check told me to open the envelope and tell them how much the check was for so they could figure out which of their invoices it applied to. It was well into 5 digits. This has been going on for close to 4 months now.

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I'll get it to the right address second time around..

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Well you clearly didn't read the OP. I said it has MY address on it.

dude who sold me my house 17 years ago is being sued by Florida parishes bank. I open up their demand letters to him when they come.

I feel like if that’s their best effort to find the dude and collect their 750K then they get what they deserve

I'm the only owner that's ever lived in my house and I still get occasionally weird junk mail addressed to someone else - always makes me wonder if someone is using my address for fraud.