I've lived in my house for about 3 years. Today, a yellow USPS hold mail form appeared in the mailbox with a single name on it ("Inez") that doesn't correspond with anyone who lives here or any mail I've ever seen come in. The hold mail form said that they'll collect the mail from the post office. The start date is also listed as a week ago (?)
The simplest explanation I can come up with is that someone erroneously put our address on something and they're hoping to intercept the letter, which is fine. It's just odd. Can anyone think of a mechanism by which this would be a scam? I took the form in for now so our mail carrier won't pick it up - should I put it back out?
Another possibility - the unit next to ours has been unrented for some time, perhaps someone is moving in there and this is related to that and they listed the wrong street number?