Sue

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2 - 3 Houses on my Road Badly Damaged by Tree > roots involving expensive repair jobs. > > Trees need to be more than 15 feet asway from any > building. > > Bigger trees should be further away.. > > Apart from damage caused by roots, as trees grow > they block out a lot of light. > > If you want to see trees.. go to the Park. > Just one article on the importance of trees in an urban environment: https://canopy.org/blog/impacts-of-trees-on-mental-health/

These days street trees are carefully chosen to be varieties which do not cause subsidence issues.

I need new contact lenses, which are sent by post, and I'm really worried about them just getting stuck in the delivery office for weeks. I should have ordered them before, but I've hardly worn lenses during lockdown (except for vanity purposes on Zoom :))), and I hadn't really noticed they were running out.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If they did not have Your Address.. How did they > leave you a card.. ?? They didn't! It must have been an email?

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As the government announces they intend to write > to the over 80s (and later no doubt the over 75s > and over 70s) to alert them to their place in the > vaccine queue I become incredibly depressed - I > wonder whether anyone will bother to check why the > low take-up in SE22 is related to no one receiving > the bloody letter because the Post Office is > hopeless. Is there low take-up in SE22? I didn't know that.

What are their parents supposed to do with their children? Leave them at home? Let them run around the supermarket causing havoc and/or getting lost? Have them on a lead, like a dog?

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder what the value of them is to the charity > ? Very little I imagine, except for foreign stamps. I think they go into those mixed bags of stamps you can buy when you are starting off collecting (not in this country obviously). I think some kids still collect stamps. My granddaughters did. One of them was quite into it, don't know if she still is. She used to pore over them with a magnifying glass 🙂

katesonic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Highshore still accept stamps for 'charity' > purposes of old envelopes. > > I tear my stamps and keep them drop them into > Highshore Road. > > Happy to accept even if there's a queue...just go > up to top of queue and hand my torn off stamps > in. > > > Is this just me? > > K. I send mine to a charity, but these days it takes me ages to fill an envelope. I alternate between two charities, but it's so long since I sent any I can't remember which they are! I keep an envelope on my fridge and tear the stamps off before the envelopes go in the recycling.

garages2018 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue. I have used them time and time again and > never heard my friends in Kent > come back and say they paid for any postage, but I > will take your word for it. > But are reusable This is one of the articles I found when I googled: https://www.frama.co.uk/news/single/how-the-royal-mail-has-stamp-penny-pinchers-beat/

garages2018 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Going back to postage stamps being used again if > not stamped. > I don't feel a bit guilty about it. We pay 85p > first class stamps to > get posted in 10 days sometimes 13 days. Well > done to all that reuse them, > more the merry. When you get a first class > service, which has not been seen since move from > Dulwich, I will stop reusing stamps. The troll was talking about his mother re-using them back in the day. When there was, in fact, a first class service - and not just in name. And you couldn't re-use them now, anyway. If you did, the person receiving the letter would get charged for non-payment of postage. The machines can tell if a stamp has been previously used, because they are marked at the outgoing stage, although the marks may not be visible unless you look closely. To the best of my knowledge.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wasn?t the Drum run by (at least, for a while) by > Cooper, who later set-up the Dogfather Hotdog > stall ? Yes, I think you're right.

EatSleepShoot Wrote: --------------------------------------------------- > > Does anyone remember where about it was situated > in Northcross? Was is it on the site of Monkatsu? Its side entrance was in that little alley with the nice metal doors. They let you in there after hours 🤣

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------- > > Joking aside there does seem to be a lot of > immature name calling on the forum lately, maybe > we need age verification of posters and a compos > mentis test when people sign up > I don't think it's anything to do with age. Possibly immaturity. Possibly malice. Or both. It wouldn't be so bad if it was funny 🙄

I rest my case

Patrick DiPosta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My old mum used to reuse those stamps. As good as > cash Good thing everybody didn't do that. The posties were paid a pittance as it was, without people reusing stamps and thereby losing Royal Mail money. The letter still had to be processed and delivered, even though it hadn't been paid for. What would your best friend in the sorting office who is so helpful to you think about that, I wonder? ETA: And I see you have only just joined, and posted twice. Your style seems strangely familiar .... must be my imagination ..

What was that place called under the cafe next to the Palmerston? It was great. John Lynch (I think) and his partner were there more or less 24/7, they sold vinyl and music related stuff. Sometimes they had live music. You could get a pint from the Palmerston (or a can from the offy) and stay down there for ages 🙂

Crikey,memories eh. Inside 72 was great. Anyone remember the Drum (I think it was) on North Cross Road? It was in the days you could still smoke inside. It was very small and full of smokers 🤣

wordsworth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Don't feed the troll .... > > > A expected response from you. You don't think he or she is a troll, then? And you tore yourself away from your many many posts on the word game just to post that? Dear oh dear. ETA: Looking at the few other posts you've made which aren't on word game threads, it seems that you would get on very well with him or her!

malumbu Wrote: -------------------------------------------------- > PS Sue we had ex-friends, one a green councillor, > who came down from Yorkshire by train with three > kids, tent, wheelbarrow etc the Cambridge Folk > Festival. They managed for several years > travelling home and away like this. They were > wonderful role models, but then he passed his > test, and became a bit of a petrol head. Many many questions spring to my mind 🤣🤣🤣

Don't feed the troll ....

singalto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I had a home COVID test in May delivered and > collected by a courier. The second home test in > December was delivered by Amazon. Are postal > deliveries dire all over the country or is the > Peckham office particularly appalling? Yes same here, delivered by courier in May and others later by Amazon. I'm extremely surprised they are using Royal Mail, if that's true, given the other pressures on Royal Mail at the moment. Whose decision would that be?

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > I am also awaitin test results from Kings. Might you be able to get your test results by phoning either Kings or your GP? Hope all is well.

Just seen this posted on the Nunhead Rocks Facebook group: Dear all. Local councillor has replied thusly to a neighbour regarding the lack of mail delivery. ".......The situation within Peckham Sorting Office is currently pretty dire. They have sadly lost staff due to Covid and several staff are currently off sick or are quarantining/shielding. The extra staff recruited for the Christmas period have had their contracts extended but they are still very short staffed. Staff are working overtime, 7 days a week. Royal Mail is dealing with Covid test drop off/pick up and this is taking priority over other deliveries (and is very time consuming). The next priority are parcels and packets and then signed for/recorded deliveries. Due to the sheer volume of deliveries and staff shortages letter deliveries have suffered in the local area. They have a huge backlog of letter mail that they are trying to clear. It is not something that is particularly affecting Rye Hill, but all areas served by Peckham Sorting Office. (I do believe this as today, I received my first letter post since the 19th and it included post sent first class on the 18th December, I?m on Linden Grove). I was told the post will be delivered but they couldn?t tell me how soon. It was suggested that post could be collected from the sorting office. They are allowing people to collect post for their neighbours as long as they can show either a print out or photo of their neighbour?s ID (so one person can pick up for a few households)." End of quote.

singalto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I contacted the RM CEO yesterday and received 9 > items of post about an hour ago! Thanks singalto, seems that's the way to go, then!

Pigeon was still hiding under the Acanthus, but when I got near it flew into the pear tree and now it's sitting there very still 😭