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Why don't you do something constructive and take your views to the police, or attend one of the local meetings with them, instead of posting on here? Then I expect they will be able to explain to you how and why they allocate their resources, and you can discuss it with them. Venting on here might make you feel better, but it will do absolutely nothing to change the situation you feel so strongly about. Given the lack of statistics, I would have thought face validity was sufficient reason to speak to the kids concerned Depending of course on what happens next. Are the kids concerned given counselling (if that is thought appropriate) or asked to attend some suitable kind of course? Are their parents involved?

How do you know it's madness unless you know what they plan to replace its services with? And isn't Mount Pleasant a Royal Mail sorting office? If so, that's nothing to do with counters. Royal Mail is a completely separate - and privately owned - business.

I think you will find they are investigating potentially illegal comments, which may or may not be "hurtful" . And to the best of my knowledge, most of the demos which "seem to be happening every weekend" are attended by people who do not want to just stand by and watch whilst thousands of innocent people just like you - except they happen to live elsewhere - are being illegally slaughtered. You think there's no possible link between "non-crime hate speech" between kids in school and one school kid later stabbing another school kid, then?

Surely increasing profits are not the reason? It's more about preventing massive losses? You can't keep things going at vast expense because a few people still use them. We would still be in the stone age. There are always going to be some people who find it hard to use "modern" technology (which has been going for decades). I would have thought the answer was for those people to learn how to do the things they need to do? I'm sure lots of help must be available? I'm one of the ancient ones, and around the end of the nineties I went on a free course to be taught how to go online and use the internet. It was quite a steep learning curve, but so is learning anything new. So in previous years was learning to use a PC and word processing. So was learning Excel and spreadsheets. If you need to use something, you have to learn how to do it! Some people may not have the mental capacity to do this, but in that case surely they will be getting support in other areas of their daily life already? And as regards the possible closure of the Crown post office (note - possible) we don't know what alternative arrangements may be made should this happen, so it seems a bit premature to be protesting about it at this point.

PCSOs may not need specific qualifications, but they go through a reasonably rigorous recruitment process. Or at least they used to. It may have changed.

Or turning left, continuing on down Forest Hill Road and turning right further up. Google maps has Dulwich marked at the junction by the old Grove, where the South Circular heads off towards the rest of Dulwich. But whatever, yes you can definitely get to Dulwich by going in the direction shown on the signpost! I'm not sure you would get "anywhere" by going straight down, though, let alone 23 miles down 🤣 I like the "Now here" though!

My grandchildren would be most bemused if they were sent a cheque! And what a faff! They would have to pay it into a bank anyway, wouldn't they? How does that work, if they don't have a bank account? Even if they do, sending money by BACS is quicker and easier. You don't have to spend an arm and a leg to buy a stamp, and the money can't get "lost" or delayed in the post. They have the use of the money immediately, buy something they want with it, then tell me/show me what they bought. Better all round for everybody, in my opinion, though I accept everybody is different. I know people who still want to bring back pounds shillings and pence 🙄

Depends which route you take!

I think it's connected with the totem pole renovation celebrations They have passed now, but the notice has been there since then (at least that's when I first saw it - I passed it on the 484 and also took a photo!)

Well, I never go there, so I have no idea why it would be obvious 😔 And I'm not going to trek up to Dulwich Village just to ask them!

I find it worrying that the pH problem was considered bad enough for the pool to be closed. Something must either have been wrong with the water going into the pool in the first place, or something was added afterwards which shouldn't have been, or in the wrong quantity? Whatever, surely there should be checks every time a change of any kind is made to the water, and appropriate action taken? Or was this closure a result of such a check? In which case, I wonder what went wrong?

Why is it so quiet?

This is just something that is "being considered"! It could be years before it happens, if it ever does! I'm sure there must be many possible options to replace the services presently provided by Crown offices, including introducing more what are now called "sub" post offices (I think) in existing shops and other places. I'm sure there will be many different interest groups (for want of a better term) trying to make sure that groups of people who are likely to be most affected by the closure of Crown offices will have suitable alternative local provision. Especially given that presumably the existing Crown Offices are based in the areas where there are (or were) the most people to make use of their services, or were at the time they opened.

🤣 Very true! So how did the pH get "imbalanced" ? And how are they going to "rebalance" it? And how often do they test it, and what is the health implication of this "imbalance"?

Easy mistake to make, as they were all originally part of the Post Office.

Royal Mail is now privately owned, and completely separate to Post Office counters. Replying to Spartacus as well, whose post you were replying to!

It's a forum. People have different views.

It must depend what time you go? I've never had to wait long in there, and there was just one crate to put my parcels in.

I think I'm just pedantically quibbling about the use of the term "imbalance", sorry. Maybe all this cleaning stuff they seem to be putting in the pool has affected the pH 🙄

What on earth does that mean? Imbalance between the pH levels of what and what?

I don't understand?

I think the bad language started in the first post, to be fair. Whose language are you referring to? And who specifically do you think has been unkind, and why? A stolen bag of cat litter is quite amusing in my view, so I'm sorry if you think we should all be taking this very seriously and accompanying the OP to the thief's house to beat him up and get the cat litter back 🙄

There was a change in the company running the leisure centre, wasn't there? Who oversees that? The council? The pool manager or the general manager must ultimately be responsible to someone outwith that company?

Someone had a bag of cat litter stolen and now appears to be threatening the person who stole it ("I know where you live, now watch" ) etc. I'm not entirely sure kindness is warranted. We still don't know how the cat litter came to be (apparently) unattended at the bus stop. Nor why the OP hasn't gone to the thief's home to get it back. But are you a cat litter burglar?!

I think there is a separate swimming manager and an overall manager of the whole centre, but I might be wrong. It's a while since I've used the pool.