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Thanks Ianr. I've attached a screenshot of the bit where East Dulwich is mentioned. But why are they still calling it East Dulwich delivery office? It hasn't been in East Dulwich since the delivery office in Sylvester Road was closed. I wonder what "targeted support" they are providing to the East Dulwich aka Peckham office, and what "challenges" they think it has?

Well it's a pity that Mother Nature doesn't do her bit a bit faster round here 🤣

Is there some easy way of finding out how much Gift Aid the hospice shop has made from my donations? I have emails from Oxfam, but nothing from St Christopher's, even though I have donated more to them! I know I could ask in the shop, but I imagine the Gift Aid admin is run from elsewhere.

Oh Malumbu. Sorry, malumbu, no cap M. Have you got weary of the "discussions" in the transport section?! Was "making a load" a typo? Did you mean "loss"? I think I may start a thread in the lounge for discussions which are completely pointless, because nobody is going to persuade anybody else to change their view, however strong they believe their case to be! A bit like politics, I suppose.

That's also in the same area as Ulverscroft, Fellbrigg and North Cross Roads. Ulverscroft and Fellbrigg Roads both run between North Cross Road and Whateley Road. Might someone have seen anything on their door cameras (no idea what they are called as I don't have one) ?

Does Southwark noise control phone line still exist? You could try contacting them, if so?

To be fair, I have found the system for changing a Royal Mail delivery very easy. But Royal Mail deliveries have nothing to do with the potential closure of some Crown post offices! The "vital front door for that sector" doesn't have to be Crown Post Office branches.

You seem to have had a run of bad luck, but I don't understand some of what you say. What do you mean by each shop requiring a different bar code etc? Surely you only have one thing to show for each package you are sending or collecting? Don't you get an email or some other kind of notification which contains the thing you have to show? Are you suggesting that it would be easier to queue up at the Post Office than do it at a shop? You have to show barcodes etc there as well. Where did I ever imply that anybody was "thick" or a "troglodyte"? I did suggest that some people wanted to hang onto the old ways of doing things, like only using cash, that's true. And it isn't that this country "can't run a decent, simple post office." It's that Crown post offices are losing money by maintaining buildings which are expensive to run, whilst no longer providing the range of services they used to, because for various reasons they are no longer needed. And the services which are still needed can be more cost effectively provided elsewhere without causing undue inconvenience to customers. Things move on. But in any case, nothing has been decided yet. The closure of the Lordship Lane post office is just a proposal. I hate self service tills 🤣

Interesting. Same area. Someone doing a circular walk with their dog?

Ulverscroft Road, for one place. And one dog owner (or possibly dog walker) seems to think that if the dog poo is in the gutter, that makes it ok. 🤬🤮

I've never once had a problem with collecting parcels from shops. Perhaps you don't know how to use the relevant app/s? Royal Mail deliveries by the postie (my regular postie is lovely as well) have nothing to do with the Crown Post Offices. But I can't understand why you would want even more stuff delivered that way when the delivery service seems to be struggling already? And many people living in terraced houses in this area don't have a place to "leave stuff safely". I imagine that the huge queues out the door in Lordship Lane are there for a number of reasons. These could include: very slow service by some members of staff, lack of alternative options (such as parcel lockers) offered for you to collect parcels you don't want delivered to your home, people being unaware of some of the alternative options there are for sending a parcel, eg being able to print a label at home and have a parcel collected from your home. people not being able or willing to go to the Post Office at less busy times (often I have not had to wait at all). I genuinely can't understand why some people are so keen to see the Post Office continue to lose shedloads of money by running high street offices at a loss when there are other suitable ways to provide their services locally. What is so special about the Lordship Lane post office (and other Crown post offices)? Do they hold treasured childhood memories for people, or something? Is it a fear of change, or what?

Yes there are services being provided in the Post Office that people need. I had to queue for ages to collect an Amazon parcel from there recently, because it was the only option offered other than home delivery (when you can't be sure you will be in). That doesn't mean that those services can't be provided elsewhere - sub post offices, shops, parcel lockers for example, and that's just for collecting parcels.

Brixton Prison Blues? They don't put you in prison for crossing a bus lane. YET!

Laughing out loud here. Please do it! There's an upstairs room at The Castle, I'm sure they could take out the tables and chairs for you 😄

😮 Please, no songs about bus lanes or Dulwich Village or LTNs on Sunday (OR buses, in case somebody would find it amusing to come and sing the wheels on the expletive deleted bus go round and round 🤣 )

Why don't you all get together over a few pints and then have a fight afterwards? It's getting incredibly tedious on here with people trying to distort things to suit their agendas. I know I shouldn't read it if I find it tedious, before someone tells me that 🤣

Where did you find a website? I couldn't find one. It still has a Facebook page, but there's nothing on that after 2015. I thought it had closed down years ago! ETA: There are two reviews on TripAdvisor from April this year, but they are the first since 2019. Did it close and then reopen and then close again?

Evidence, not previous posts 🤣

What exactly is your evidence that Southwark are laying "traps" to "generate funds" to pay for "vanity projects"?

Surely there is much less cash being banked these days because the vast majority of people find it much more convenient to pay by card (or phone) than to have to get out cash, carry it around, pay with it, and then mess about with having to find somewhere to store heavy loose change. Card payment is also much easier for the shop. And much easier for customers in a queue who don't have to wait while someone gets their purse out, counts out the money and gives it to the assistant, who then has to count out and give them their change, which they then have to put away in their purse... And nobody from the shop has to carry shedloads of notes and heavy bags of coins to the bank or post office and queue up to pay it in. There is also less likelihood of a customer being short changed, or of some form of theft from the till.

It would be interesting to have a breakdown of the post office transactions, to see what proportion of each kind of transaction makes up the whole. Obviously it will vary according to the time of year, and I imagine also according to the day of the week. I would also imagine that shopkeepers in 2025 will have very much less cash to bank than in say 2015, even.

Sadly I doubt the kind of person who doesn't pick up after their dog is going to pay any attention to that, even if they see it.

There used to be bins around the area specifically for putting in bags of dog poo. I don't know who collected the bags from the bins, or how frequently. Do they no longer exist?

It is my understanding that the services which the Crown post offices on this list (such as the one in Lordship Lane) presently provide would be transferred to new sub post offices such as those that already exist in shops. So services such as posting parcels would not disappear. They would just be provided in additional suitable locations (eg shops) locally. Or possibly parcel lockers, though I don't know how those work in terms of posting rather than collecting parcels. The Post Office obviously needs to look at all suitable alternative options which would be cheaper for them than continuing to have dedicated (?) premises which are running at a loss. Bear in mind that all this is at a very early stage. I'm not convinced that a petition signed by individuals is the best way to influence the decision makers, who one hopes will be taking all factors into account and consulting relevant interest groups anyway. Probably making your feelings known to your MP or councillor would be likely to carry more weight. But what would I know.