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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.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Grenadine available from Sainsburys > > Probably Creme de Cacao too > > Foxy Sainsbury's say they sell Grenadine, but they don't have any in stock. Nor do Tesco. Neither Tesco nor Sainsbury's have Creme de Cacao. But thanks anyway :) ETA: Unless Sainsbury's have suddenly got some in since I got my delivery yesterday, and Tesco since I updated my Christmas order earlier this evening.

I'm really confused as well. I have to take the car to my allotment (next to the tennis club on the South Circular, opposite the new skate park) if I have a lot of bulky or heavy stuff to unload. Coming home again it has become really difficult to turn right from the entrance to the tennis club, because there is now so much more traffic going in that direction, so unless I wait ages for some kind person to let me in when there's a gap in the traffic going the other way, I have to turn left and go home via a really circuitous route. Which is now even more circuitous with so many roads closed off or restricted in some way. Coming from the South Circular, at the roundabout in DV, are cars forbidden to drive down Burbage Road completely during certain times, or is it just that you have to go round the roundabout first before turning left?

I have a sudden urge to make cocktails at Christmas, which I haven't done for about forty years :)) I preferably need Creme de Cacao and Grenadine (not to use together, I hasten to add). Does anybody know of anywhere locally I can get either or both?

redpost Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's actually illegal and you can get an urgent > injunction to stop works. What is illegal?

Suggest if you still hear nothing, you email Helen Hayes. It's amazing how an MP's involvement can get answers.

You absolutely must have a party wall surveyor to look at your flat before and after this work is done (assuming you have a party wall with the other flat). Your neighbour has to pay, and you should not agree to use the same one as your neighbour (I speak from bitter experience). I wonder if the council did in fact send a letter, because to the best of my knowledge I never got one either.

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some weeks ago two teens on bikes circled me as I > walked down LL about 3pm-one cycled alongside me > on the pavement his friend on my other side > cycling in the kerb-so I was in the middle-it was > really scary I just stopped at the nearest bus > shelter where happily there were people.and they > moved on but the one on the pavement kept looking > over his shoulder at me as they cycled away. > I felt because I was a lone older woman they were > trying to intimidate me and maybe rob me. That sounds really frightening. Glad you were able to reach a place where there were other people.

lameduck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HI All like you all no post at all nearly 2 weeks > I am nr Ivy house, I got a bit paranoid, wondered > if my mail had been > diverted elsewhere, , > Popped to Highshore rd > Apparently concentrating on parcels, not letters. > told letters are going out tomorrow. I'm expecting an urgent letter in the next few days, which had better blooming arrive because it's time critical :(

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps he was just being informal. The Highshore > Road one is now called the Peckham and East > Dulwich Delivery Office: > www.royalmail.com/services-near-you/delivery-offic > e/peckham-and-east-dulwich-delivery-office-se15-5a > u/ . Oh OK, fair enough, I didn't know that!