davis_square | Wrong Address! Really!! (Reply)

I moved into my apartment near Davis in September. September 2006. Five months ago.

I'm still receiving mail addressed to the previous residents' and the residents' before them. All in all maybe a total of 6 different names. It's really starting to annoy me. It wouldn't be such a big deal, but I've lived here almost half a year now, and I get more previous residents' mail than my own mail, and I receive it almost every day.

How to fix this is a mystery to me. The USPS website only advises to cross out the address on the envelope and write 'not at this address' on the envelope. Well, I've been doing this for months now, and I'm receiving what appear from the envelope to be the former residents W-2s! As well as paycheck stubs! I've even looked into filing a change of address for these folks (leaving the forwarding address blank) but legally I can't do that. Should I be calling the post office and complaining? (I haven't yet, because I don't want to get my mail carrier in trouble unless it's really necessary.)

It doesn't make sense to me why this is happening in the first place. In the past, I've had to fight to get my mail delivered at the correct, change-of-address-filed-with-the-post-office address before because I only had a paper nametag on my mailbox before the apartment complexes made a real nametag (in NH). It seems in Somerville, the postal delivery folks don't even seem to care to look at the names on the mailbox. Any tips / advice / ideas? Is anyone else experiencing this annoyance in the Davis Sq. area?

Thanks in advance.