{"product_id":"vragen-5727-ik-heb-een-verkeerd-geadresseerde-brief-ontvangen-naam-fout-straat-mijn-straatnaam-huisnumme","title":"Legal Assistance for Misdirected Letters","description":"\u003ch4\u003e Questioner\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n I received a misaddressed letter.\n\n Name: error.\n\n Street: My street name.\n \nHouse number: My house number.\n\n Postcode: Partly correct.\n\n Place of residence: Correct.\n\n I opened the letter (automatically) without first checking whether the letter was intended for me.\n\n This concerns a letter about a reminder in a legal matter.\n\n I have notified the sender of that letter of the incorrect addressing.\n\n The sender is going to sue me for breach of mail confidentiality.\n\n I have a general idea of ​​what constitutes a breach of confidentiality (I have no legal background) but it seems to me that I am not guilty.\n\n Article 201 | Sr, Book 2, Title 8\n\n Any person who intentionally diverts, opens or damages letters or other documents delivered to a post or telegraph office or placed in a post box from their destination shall be punished by a prison sentence of not more than one year or a fine of the third category.\n\n I did not open the letter intentionally so it seems to me that the article does not apply to me. (Even if I did open the letter intentionally it seems to me that this is unprovable.)\n \nThe sender seems unreasonable. Wrongly addressed mail should be returned unopened is their only answer.\n\n I have no proof but I get the feeling that they are covering themselves against their own mistakes. Because of their mistake the other party did not receive the letter and that may have caused (even more) problems.\n\n If I actually have to appear in court, it will of course be clear that they have continued with the charges.\n\n How do I know if the charge has not been continued or dismissed? Like if I understand the system someone files a report with the police. They may dismiss the report. If not then I get the chance to explain my view at the police station.\n\n Do I always receive notification of a declaration? Even if it is rejected?\n\n This issue is on my mind day and night and I would like to know if a report has been rejected. Otherwise, after a year I would still think: 'The letter from the justice department could still come.'\n\n I want to close this bad chapter.\n \nHow seriously should I take these kinds of threats (because that's what it feels like)?\n\n Do I need to take any actions?\n\n Thank you in advance for reading and answering my question.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n Of course you have not violated the confidentiality of correspondence. The postal route has ended with the delivery, while the confidentiality of correspondence concerns the route between posting ('putting in the mailbox') and delivery to the addressee.\n\n I do not expect that a report will actually be filed and that the Public Prosecution Service will not make a case of it. You do not need to worry. Incidentally, you cannot go to the police station in advance if no report has been filed. If a report is filed and the police take up the case, you will be invited to the station to make a statement. But it will not come to that - again.\n \nYour impression that the sender wants to cover himself seems right to me. Unfortunately, there is not much you can do about the other party threatening to report, because that in itself is not unlawful.\n\n However, as indicated, you have no reason to worry. You do not need to take any action or answer letters from the other party.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Questioner\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n Thank you for your very quick and clear answer! Please do *not* take my follow-up question as questioning your knowledge.\n\n 'delivery to the addressee.'\n\n What\/who is an addressee? A home address? Or a person?\n\n Does the postal route end upon delivery or, for example, only when it has reached the right person?\n\n I live alone, but in the case of cohabitation, are all residents allowed to open mail that does not have their name on it?\n\n Thanks again!\n\n My heart is beating a little slower :-)\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e \nI understand your question. By 'addressee' I meant the end of the delivery process, in this case deposit in your letterbox. The delivery process has then ended (only with the wrong person). The confidentiality of letters applies to postal workers and 'post anglers'. Inadvertently opening letters delivered to you is not covered, especially if the letter contains your address details. Furthermore, the requirement that you 'intentionally' opened the letter has not been met: that happened by mistake.\n\n Again, you have no reason to worry.\n\n","brand":"Rechtswinkel.nl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55019451384157,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rechtswinkel.nl\/en\/products\/vragen-5727-ik-heb-een-verkeerd-geadresseerde-brief-ontvangen-naam-fout-straat-mijn-straatnaam-huisnumme","provider":"Rechtswinkel.nl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}