Companies who send out direct mail have a moral and social responsibility to check their mailing lists, but many fail to do so.

Rosedale is encouraging the relatives of anyone who has died to register with The Bereavement Register to help reduce the amount of direct mail that continues to be sent after their death.  This is especially useful at a time when a so-called ‘impersonation of the dead’ – where individuals take on the identity of the deceased in order to gain illegal access to loans and credit cards – is now recognised as the fastest growing identity fraud in the UK.