A forwarding email address was deleted but is still operating?!

Until end of May this year I had 2 independent email addresses in use for @mac.com (access through iCloud) to forward messages to. One of these addresses had to be eliminated for practical purposes by 30th of May, but mail keeps being returned with error messages by postmasters and mailer daemons etc. referring to that account.
I cannot seem to stop mac.com to ignore that one obsolete address which, in fact, does not exist anymore (called "illegal" by some non-delivery notifications).
What on earth can I do to stop the usage of a no longer existant account??

Thank you! So far so good, I am aware that my previous setup was most likely done in MobileMe and I do remember that I "conveniently" ignored all the reminders that were being sent to make adjustments for the iCloud takeover ... it just didn't seem to apply to me; erroneous assumption as it turns out.
In the Mail preferences on the iCloud website I had entered two aliases for my mac account and added one additional outside mail account. I could not find any provision to actually forward to this address. If I did not eliminate the forwarding to the now "ghost" account, this apparently is still being used - and, as you already know, I want to desperately get rid of. I do not have AppleCare.
If I wish to go to http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/contact/
not having a contractI with AppleCare, will they still be able and willing to help? I cannot say that I am a great expert and feel a bit lost in my predicament.
Well, I guess I'll go the the cloud contact and see what I am told. I hope I only have to get back with you to let you have the 10 points ...

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