Bailiff's notice delivered by mistake

So I just arrived home and discovered what appears to be a final notice from a bailiff in my letter slot.  It is addressed to a man who is neither my husband nor our landlord nor the previous tenant.  It doesn't have an address for this man, but makes reference to previous attempts to collect the debt in person.  No one has ever come to our flat nor have any similar notices been delivered in the nine plus months we've lived here.  I think it's pretty safe to assume that this notice was delivered to us simply by mistake.  My question is, what should I do?  Should I contact the enforcement officer listed on the notice, or should I write it off as none of my business?  TIA!

I'd contact them and advise them of what you just said.

Although old this article may be of use: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2005/sep/03/consumernews.jobsandmoney2

If they get it wrong, you have no legal obligation to prove that you are not the person they are seeking, although it may be advisable to do so, to ensure you are not bothered again. A spokesperson for Drakes, a leading independent provider of civil enforcement and debt recovery services, says that if you receive a letter to the previous occupant you should return it to sender unopened.

If you have opened the letter, you should immediately inform the sender that the person they are looking for has left your address and also send some proof, such as a utility bill or a tenancy agreement. It is also helpful, say Drakes, if you can provide them with a forwarding address for the previous occupant, although, again, there is no legal obligation to do so.

What you mustn't do, says Dr Steve Everson, director general of the Association of Civil Enforcement Agencies (ACEA), is ignore the letters: "The last thing the person should do is sit on the letters. They should contact the bailiffs immediately and let them know they are in no way associated with them.

"I would also put it in writing to the bailiff company, with some documentary proof that you are the new owner or tenant."

Yeah, we kept getting unpaid bill notices for a tenant who had lived in our apartment before we did. I didn't know what to do and the bailiffs ended up on our door step on morning at about 6:30!! I just showed them my ID and they left. If I had to do it again, I'd have called or phoned them.

Sounds like a scare-mail to me, I would say it would be highly unlikely they've been around in person.
One bailiff I dealt with when I worked in Banking used to send out little cards that were printed but made to look like they were filled in with a pen to make you think they'd been to your house and put their card through your door like a royal mail, whilst you were out card.

I would contact the enforcement agent just to let them know but wouldn't worry about it hugely.

That happened to us; I just called the agency and let them know that the person no longer lived at the address. They asked lots of probing questions that all got back the answer "I don't know", but we never heard anything from them again.

One thing that they did seem particularly interested in was how I knew about the notice, since it was in an envelope addressed to the former tenant. I'm not sure if there was an issue with mail tampering from me opening someone else's post (or more likely, they suspected that I was the addressee and was trying to put them off the trail). I never admitted to opening the envelope, just repeated a few times that I had been "made aware" of the notice, which they grudgingly accepted.

If you want to be thorough, send them something registered delivery saying all these things, and keep a copy for yourself. Don't worry though, they don't care about you, just about the other guy who didn't pay his bills.

One thing that they did seem particularly interested in was how I knew about the notice, since it was in an envelope addressed to the former tenant. I'm not sure if there was an issue with mail tampering from me opening someone else's post (or more likely, they suspected that I was the addressee and was trying to put them off the trail). I never admitted to opening the envelope, just repeated a few times that I had been "made aware" of the notice, which they grudgingly accepted.

had a letter come here when we first moved in, I googled the senders info on the outside of the envelope and called them. They wanted to know the referance number,so I explained that Im not opening it since its not in my name and that I jsut googled their info from the envelope. the guy actually "demanded" that I open the envelope and told me it wasnt "tampering" because he was "telling me to do it", he was such an a**hole.
Anyway,they actually wanted us to send our lease to them so show that we live here now, i told them it wasnt going to happen,and they told me they will keeping sending letters and will send someone around. I told them to go for it. That was almost a year ago and we never got another letter and no one came to the door. 

I worry about this every time I get mail for the previous owner of my house.  It had been repossessed, possibly due to poor financial management on their part (when we moved in we found several letters from credit and store cards demanding payment, etc.).  I don't know how long it had been vacant when we moved in but it must have been several months at least.  We never met the previous owner and have no idea where she went.

We printed up a bunch of letters saying that we are the new owners and have no connection with the previous occupant, and that we would not deal with any notices or requests except in writing.  For a while we would take all of the mail from a given company and send it back registered mail along with one of these letters.  We still occasionally get mail for them but now I just write some variation of "return to sender, not at this address for 2+ years" and just stick it in the mailbox.  My husband tells me that the Royal Mail has the right to open the envelopes to find out who to send them to, but I'm not sure about that.

If anyone ever shows up at my house claiming to be a bailiff I will tell them to get off my property.  I certainly won't let them into my house or give them any personal details about us.