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Thanks!

Reg Smeeton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Meanwhile if you are looking for a quick, low cost > way to SEND parcels, I highly recommend DPD. You > can print off the label and drop your parcel at > Food & Wine (141 Lordship, opposite the cinema). > Saved me standing in a 30 minute queue at the Post > Office. DPD will also collect parcels from your home. So will Hermes. So will Royal Mail, surprisingly! Probably other couriers as well.

1/10.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > East Dulwich has virtually tripled from 151 cases > per 100000 people [06.12] to 420 cases per 100000 > people [13.12] > > stuff like this is why. Where did you get those figures, Alice? I've only seen stats for Southwark as a whole. Would be interested to see them broken down further.

ed_pete Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Look I know, I know, but it is really appropriate > to hold carol singing event complete with brass > band on Elsie Road this evening when London has > entered Tier 3 this week and the latest daily > figures show 28,000 new cases nationally ? Brass band? Was it the Sally Army?

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have just been down to Highshore Rd to complain > to the manager, He, of course, wasn't in, so I > left a letter for him > The polite woman on the desk went behind the > scenes and found a large pile of post for us. We > have had no post at all this week. This included > my new bank card. NO POST FOR A WEEK JUST BEFORE > CHRISTMAS That's terrible.

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where does the mail that we post in East Dulwich > go to be sorted? Is it not the same place that the > incoming mail gets sorted? Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but to the best of my knowledge the Peckham office is a delivery office only. Outgoing mail goes to big mechanised offices, or used to. I can't imagine that's changed. The incoming mail is just sorted into what used to be called walks, don't know if that term is still used.

It's not the posting end that's the problem, at least in East Dulwich. It's the delivery of incoming mail.

I didn't intend to be brusque! You asked what Helen had already done, which tbh I thought for anyone concerned was already common knowledge, but hey ho. Apologies if I upset you. And as she is our MP, she would seem to be the last port of call, but maybe you have other suggestions? Sadiq Khan? Boris Johnson? I expect they would each immediately put it to the top of their to do list 🤣🤣🤣 Many people on here, including myself, have already at various times complained to both the local delivery manager and the CEO of Royal Mail.

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No, I'm not sure what Helen can do on top of what > she has already done. What has she already done? I have already outlined it in several threads on this forum, as have other people. Maybe you could do a search. It includes fighting the closure of the Sylvester Road delivery office, suggesting alternatives to the relevant Royal Mail managers, visiting the Peckham office recently to look at the problems herself, taking the issues up with local and central Royal Mail management, and taking up individual cases. What more do you think she can or should do, exactly?

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great that Helen Hayes has been very involved, but > we aren't seeing an improvement in our service are > we? Last year I got a pile of Christmas cards way > after Christmas. My son got his birthday cards > about two weeks after his mid September birthday. > I'm sure I posted about this on threads on the ED > Forum last year. I'm not sure what else Helen can do on top of what she has already done, short of delivering all the mail herself :))

Go and troll somewhere else 🙄 ETA: Just to point out that my post above must have referred to a trolling post which has now been removed, and does not refer to any of the posts remaining on the thread :))

Ms Harman? Helen Hayes has already been very involved in this issue.

Oh sorry, I thought I was editing my previous post. Didn't mean it to jump the queue. Pleased about your not guilty verdict, KK!

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > nxjen Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I?m thinking about going digital this year > > > I use Jacqui Lawson for nice digital Christmas > "cards" which the recipients seem to appreciate. > > I send very few actual cards through the post. > > Obviously the downside is that you don't have a > card to display, however there are other sites > where you can send digital cards which can be > printed off. You can't do that with most of the > Jacqui Lawson cards, because they move :) > > It's also much less time consuming, because once > you have the contact email addresses saved on the > site, you can send the same card and message to a > lot of people at once. ETA: And I've just found out that this year you can send them to loads of people even more easily, because you can share the card via a link, so you can for example put it into a newsletter. But there's no limit to the number of cards you can send individually. (BTW no I have no connection to the site, and in fact I think the quality of the graphics has gone downhill since it was sold, plus they seem to have removed all the nice old Jacqui Lawson cards :( But it's still OK and good value!)

Sue Wrote: -------------------------------------------------- > > I'm expecting an urgent letter in the next few > days, which had better blooming arrive because > it's time critical :( No sign of it. There's a surprise. ETA: Anyone else finding they get post in dribs and drabs over the course of a few hours? There seems to be no kind of system.

jimlad48 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I 100% agree. > > Its also worth noting, for all the concern on > COVID deaths (many of which involved very elderly > people, who had pre-existing known health > conditions), over 800,000 people have lost their > jobs since this started. > > I'm vastly more worried about how we get can those > 820,000 (and rising) people back to work, than I > am about a bug that on most people will have a > mild impact. As noted elsewhere, those people on whom the virus has a "mild impact" can spread it to others on whom it may have a very severe impact, and who may die. As can people who are asymptomatic and have no idea they are spreading the virus. And let's not forget that many very badly affected Long Covid sufferers are of all ages including children, and many of those had no pre-existing conditions. Environments such as a very crowded Street market where (if I understand it correctly) most stallholders are not making any effort to encourage social distancing are probably one of the reasons why we are now in Tier Three.

This will almost certainly change now, won't it?

alex_b Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > James, the council is selling off The Belham > Primary School's Caretaker's House by auction next > week without consulting the school or putting in > place a safeguarding plan. Although the school is > in Rye Lane ward, many pupils come from Goose > Green ward. Can you investigate and urgently > intervene please? The auction has been stopped. See the other thread in this section.

jimlad48 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "But my question still stands = Why Bother ?" > > Because we are a social species that has put up > with a year of increasingly onerous restrictions, > and who feel that we need to see people in order > to keep going. For the overwhelming majority of > people the virus is incredibly low risk, so there > is nothing to worry about. Sorry to put my oar in, but low risk people may get the virus mildly themselves, or have it and be asymptomatic, but they can still pass it on to people who are not low risk.

Thanks Foxy, Nygel my Bubble has got the Grenadine from Sainsbury's. When we are all vaccinated we will bring you round a cocktail (if there are any ingredients left by then :)) ) Still on a hunt for the Creme de Cacao (none in Sainsbury's, none in what used to be Boss Man).

Thanks, they didn't have any online. I'll see if someone can get it for me. Was it in the alcohol section?

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Kay Burley and Beth Rigby "taking a break" > Kay Burley "taking a break" on six months' full pay. Other people get fined 😡

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A fitting footnote to add to that triptych, would > be this eternal tweet written back in Sept 2016, > which I presume was a response to Michael Gove's > ''The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the > cards''... > > EU lays down a royal flush. > > UK looks at own cards: Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, > a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool 🤣🤣🤣 Hmm, The Fool. About to leap into The Abyss, if memory serves.

Thanks legalalien. Yes, it's the Camber tennis club and I live just off North Cross Road. I think you're right that I will have to time my journeys outside the closure periods. I had thought about turning round and coming back down the 205, as you suggest, but decided that I'd rather spend the time driving than sitting in the massive queue of cars going in that direction. What a nightmare. I really feel for anybody who is affected by this every day, particularly as we are supposed to be avoiding public transport wherever possible.