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That really made me laugh 🤣
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Does your friend know that you can get liquid henna? It is much easier to apply than the powder. You just apply it like a shampoo and comb it through. It can be a bit messy, but not nearly as messy as the powder method (in my experience over decades 🤣) Health Matters in Lordship Lane used to stock it, I don't know if they still do, also Baldwin's in the Walworth Road, or you can buy it online. It comes in the same colours as the powder eg mahogany etc. Here's just one place: https://www.worldsend.co.uk/auburn-henne-henna-liquid-hair-dye-colouring-cream-573-p.asp There are also other brands of liquid henna than that one.
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Large ginger and white cat - taken to vets
Sue replied to ktbg's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
That's brilliant that the fire service still do things like rescue cats stuck in trees! Best wishes to Bertie for a swift recovery ❤️ -
I actually got the latest one today - the first time it's arrived on time for possibly months. I also got quite a bit of post. Whether they somehow fished mine out of the chaos after I complained, I don't know. However, Royal Mail made an almighty f*** up with a 24 hour tracked item. I won't go into the lengthy details, but there were so many mistakes made it would have been unbelievable had it been any other organisation. And on top of the mistakes, the tracking system was down on both their website and their app. After I had identified the cup cakes and/or the crabs in the little squares for the umpteenth time I gave up. Apparently they know about it. Don't know if they managed to find somebody sufficiently competent to fix it 🙄
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I've been trying to get a smart meter for ages. I've applied several times, and never hear anything. I'm with Octopus (moved there with no choice when Avro folded, but very happy with their service - apart from this!)
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I have received this from Helen Hayes today - it is hard to think of anything that she could do about this sorry situation that she has not already done or is doing: Dear Thank you very much for writing to me regarding Royal Mail services in the SE22 postcode. I am very sorry to hear about the current unacceptable level of service you are receiving. It is particularly concerning that you have not been receiving vital hospital correspondence, or time sensitive documents. I have been raising my concerns about the serious failings in local Royal Mail services for many years, and constituents across a number of different postcode areas are currently raising concerns once again about poor and infrequent service. As you mention, we have seen particularly poor service in SE22 since the disastrous decision to close the Silvester Road sorting office by Royal Mail. I would like to reassure you that I had nothing to do with this closure. In fact, the local ward councillors and I warned at that time that moving delivery services to Highshore Road in Peckham would create huge problems. Highshore Road is a long way from the furthest parts of SE22 and the topography in this area is challenging. We campaigned vigorously for Royal Mail to open a new fit for purpose delivery office in the SE22 area, but they refused. I wrote about the Royal Mail last year in 2021, and I am saddened that we are still facing the same issues. If you would like to read this article, it can be found here: https://www.helenhayes.org.uk/royal_mail_0221 As your local MP, I have been urging Ofcom to take action against Royal Mail for its poor service. I have also been calling on Minister’s to intervene to improve the Government’s oversight of postal services and ensure Royal Mail is accountable to the public. Locally, I meet with Royal Mail frequently to raise the concerns of my constituents, most recently earlier last week. I am concerned that we appear to be seeing a deterioration just as we are entering the peak Christmas period for deliveries. I made the point to Royal Mail that I do not believe that these issues are related to strikes. I have also recently written to Royal Mail on behalf of many constituents who share the same issues in SE22. In my emails, I set out concerns about delays of post and the reduction in the frequency of deliveries. Many constituents face missing out on vital information and time sensitive packages, which I find unacceptable. I have asked that these concerns are investigated and that Royal Mail set out the steps that are being taken to improve services before the busy Christmas season. Please let me know if you would also like me to write to Royal Mail on your behalf also, as I would be happy to do this. With best wishes, Yours sincerely, Helen
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Sadly the vet couldn't even find a vein to get fluids into the fox. It had to be put to sleep. The vet thought it may have had a hernia. The Fox Angel Foundation is a charity staffed entirely by volunteers. If anybody feels moved to make a donation, the money goes entirely to the foxes and vets' fees.
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I did get a response from the CEO's office. It had gone into my spam folder. Here it is: Rebecca Redmond <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Nov, 18:11 (5 days ago) Dear Thank you for your email to the CEO Office. As part of Royal Mail’s senior team, I have been asked to respond to you. The Customer Operations Manager for your area has asked me to pass on their sincerest apologies. Regrettably, due to the ongoing industrial action, the Delivery Office working hard to deal with a backlog of mail which must be cleared. In order to most efficiently minimise the impact on our customers, rounds are looped to ensure that no particular walk is without a delivery of mail for too long a period of time. I realise that this an unfortunate situation, and I am very sorry for any impact which this may have on you. Please be assured that we are doing all we can to continue providing the best possible service to our customers during the current negotiations with the CWU. Regarding your comments of there having been issues previous to the industrial action, I can see we in the CEO Office were contacted at the end of last year into the beginning of this year, but nothing over the last 8 months. Customers may have contacted us via the usual Customer Service channels within this time but I won’t be able to locate those unless the customer comes directly to us. So I can only apologise for any inconvenience this has caused you and others in the area. If the issues do continue after all the industrial action has finished, please do not hesitate to contact us again and we will make further enquiries. I hope this helps to address your concerns, and thank you once again. Kind regards, Rebecca Redmond Royal Mail – Chairman and Chief Executive Office So basically, it seems that if we want this situation to be taken seriously, instead of going through the "usual Customer Service channels", we need to inundate the Chairman and Chief Executive Office with complaints every time items are lost or delayed. That might help concentrate their minds ...... Also, surely the industrial action has finished, hasn't it???
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Completely agree with all that. Possible sites for a new SE22 delivery office were suggested to Royal Mail at the time. Unfortunately some of the local posties were quite keen to move to Peckham. I went to a meeting with their union rep, which Helen Hayes was also at, and there was a definite half heartedness about backing the local residents who were trying to get the decision reversed. I now understand (read it on here) that this is because they get Inner London weighting in SE15 but not in SE22.
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I found a dying fox in my garden earlier. It was under my kitchen window, so lucky that I went into the garden or I wouldn't have seen him. It took me several phone calls to track down the right people to call. If anybody else ever needs it, the Foxangelfoundation can be contacted via Facebook Messenger. They responded really quickly and sent out a rescuer from Nunhead She has taken the fox to a vet but doesn't think it will survive 😭 London Wildlife Rescue said they didn't have enough fox rescuers, and the Fox Project said I was just outside their area.
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That is one of the saddest (In the original meaning of sad) places I have ever been. But I agree worth a visit.
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I haven't even had a reply from the CEO's office 🙄
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Looking for a space to hire in ED for 30th bday
Sue replied to LBI's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
The Ivy House no longer hires spaces out for private events. People used to turn up and never know if they would be able to get a table, and it put them off coming back. The pub has a great range of events all through the week, one off and regular, and some nights are "pub only", but all open to all and clearly publicised. I have to declare an interest as I am a community shareholder and also run events there 🙂 https://www.ivyhousenunhead.com/events The Lordship and The Palmerston both have upstairs rooms for hire, as does The Castle. -
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I emailed the CEO's office yesterday, and copied in Helen Hayes. I have had an automatic response from Helen, but not from Royal Mail. However today I suddenly got a small pile of post, though it seems to be recent items, not the items which appear to be stuck in the system somewhere. I directed the CEO's office to this thread (apart from giving examples of my own delayed and missing items) and asked what Royal Mail intended to do about the appalling delivery service in SE22. I made clear that the problems started when the delivery office at Silvester Road closed, with SE22 deliveries (or lack of them) now based in SE15, and therefore could not be blamed on either Covid or industrial action. I await their reply with interest.
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It is the bangs which scare animals (and small children). In my view fireworks should be restricted to those without bangs, as I believe is the case in some other countries. Or if not, restricted to public displays only, and only on a few days per year (eg NYE, Diwali, 5 November) so people can at least keep domesticated animals inside if possible. There is also the safety issue eg rockets still alight falling on people, and kids chucking fireworks about.
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https://nation.cymru/opinion/as-a-former-postal-worker-the-privatised-wrecking-of-royal-mail-breaks-my-heart/
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Somewhere in the thread above there is an email address for the CEO of Royal Mail. And it's the Peckham office, and has been since the ED delivery office in Silvester Road was closed down, which was when all the problems started. As predicted.
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Again???
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i think it's great nice and bright and somewhere to sit or would you send it to landfill ?? as for road closures what about all the roads in E Dulwich Grove ?? It may be nice and bright and somewhere to sit, but that doesn't make it appropriate for putting in that particular place.
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OMG 😮
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After getting virtually no post for what seems like a very long time, apart from a few tracked items, I received today a load of stuff including a letter about an urgent appointment at King's on 13 October. That apppointment has been and gone 11 days ago. Luckily my GP had given me a phone number to call to make the appointment, but what if she hadn't? And the letter included important information which I hadn't been given on the phone. My postal haul also included a Private Eye from 7 October, now well out of date. History. I'm gearing up to complain, but I don't know why I'm bothering, as if Helen Hayes after all her efforts hasn't succeeding in changing anything, I'm sure I'm not going to. Yet another example of a privatised organisation failing its customers. I'm on Ulverscroft Road.
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Damn, I would have loved to come to this, but I've got something else on. Is it likely to be shown elsewhere, or put online?
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