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kiera Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was surprised to receive a phone call yesterday, > Monday, in response to a letter I'd only posted in > a pillarbox in the street on Saturday morning. My > letter would have been collected at 7am on > Saturday, yet it was delivered to the rural > address near Guildford on Monday - I'd only put a > second class stamp on it! > It just shows that some delivery offices are > still operating an excellent service on a par with > the one we were used to before our excellent East > Dulwich Delivery Office in Silvester Rd was taken > away from us. Yes, lots of areas of the country have a good postal service. Unfortunately East Dulwich isn't one of them ... it has been dire for maybe 4-5 years now.

Please let us know if the police do anything. There have been a number of crimes described on EDF in recent months where the police seem not to have the resources to investigate.

I'm getting increasingly concerned about the number of crimes the police don't deem eligible for investigation.

I had my booster last week at the pharmacy on Rosendale Road. Although I had booked mine and was just past 6 months by a few days from my 2nd jab, there were people walking in and being accepted into the queue.

What always amazes me is that glass goes into our general recycling bins. How do the myriad little bits of smashed glass get sorted from the rest? It can't be by hand.

I drove past the site opposite the Harvester which has been referenced a couple of times on this thread yesterday ... and there were no trees. If you're going to buy a sawn off Christmas tree, leave it until mid December at least. How else is it going to last until 6th January?

So very sorry for the loss of your dad misssee22. I have experienced someone close to me revived on the street through CPR and I know that it was extremely rare (something like 5% of patients make it through) and he was so lucky on that day. How lovely that people nearby tried their very best to help your Dad and I am sure they will feel his loss enormously. My sincere condolences.

mrwb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How did you get a speeding ticket outside Harris? > Police with speed gun? There isn't a fixed camera > there? Of course there are speed cameras there. Do you think I'm making it up? I'm all for 20mph zones if they are actually enforced. What happens in reality is that people tail gate you and get road rage. Why Barry Road can't have those warning signs that detect the speed you are doing and warn you to slow down, I don't know. Similarly on Lordship Lane driving down from the Harvester to the library, there used to be one of those signs before the bend at Court Lane. That has gone but it was useful for slowing drivers down at a point where lots of people are trying to cross the road (to walk down to Goodrich School for example). Why did it go?

Received a speeding fine for going above 20mph (25 actually) in that stretch along Peckham Rye outside Harris Boys School recently, fair cop, will pay up. So now, as you can imagine, I'm very mindful of the 20mph zones. On Barry Road tonight an A-hole was so impatient to get past me that he actually overtook when I had stopped for a zebra crossing and very nearly took out a family with toddlers walking over the crossing!! Why aren't there cameras on Barry Road? I can't even have the satisfaction of that idiot getting a fine in the post, can I?

There seem to be a lot of woodburners near me judging by the smell outside post 6pm on a winter night.

If bonfires are going to be banned why not ban the ubiquitous wood burning stove too? I'm sure they spew out far more particulates into the atmosphere all winter long than bonfires on one night.

10 min wait at Tesco near the Horniman this evening. I ended up buying supreme at my pump rather than bog standard petrol (as there wasn't any) but never mind.

Hooray! my birthday cards are here ... 8 days late. Cheers Royal Mail.

2 birthday cards arrived today. Funnily enough they were the ones posted late (I got text messages from the culprits apologising) but the ones posted well on time still not here. I know one was posted from Kew on 27th September, another one several days before that.

I think she needs to take it up again, given the ongoing problems that have been well documented on the Forum. I'm going to collate all my posts about this over the years and write to her.

I haven't received my birthday cards from last week (now 5 days overdue). My son's birthday cards were also 5 days late earlier this month. I'm surprised at how resentful I feel about it as I am very much a grown up and I know that my friends/family love me and were thinking about me on the day! It's just that I think Royal Mail are taking the absolute p out of us all. Your experience with the false delivery date above takes the biscuit KateFord! I'm just not sure what anyone can do to improve this situation. We're hardly going to boycott Royal Mail as it isn't the mail we send out that it is delayed ... it's all the various people who have posted things to us over the years who aren't getting the service they paid for (or us too in the case of paying postage for parcels etc).

A good way to reduce car traffic around Dulwich and East Dulwich? Ban anyone from outside walking distance from coming to school here. See how that goes down.

Son's family birthday cards arrived only 3 days late this year which is an improvement on 2018 when they were 9 days late. The service in SE22 has been abysmal since the closure of the sorting office, long before Covid. We've had long threads complaining about it on here for years. And yet RM crow about their massive profits (which, again, were decent before Covid). It makes me want to shake my fist at the sky it does.

I'm not in the market for looking at schools any longer (time flies!) but I find it amazing that the most recent Ofsted inspection at Charter N Dulwich was 2009. The exemption for outstanding schools is peculiar, although I think maybe coming to an end.

At least Southwark Council seem to be contemplating giving some support. When Forest Hill School was in financial difficulty a few years ago, Lewisham Council refused to budge - even on re-negotiating the ruinous PFI contract for the school building. Staff had to be made redundant and in an arguably illegal way, Lewisham refused to pay the redundancies so that those too had to come out of the much reduced school budget! That's why there were strikes and demos there a few years ago. Hats off to Mr Sullivan for somehow steering the school through all that.

What should a person do about parcels being delivered to the doorstep only? I live on Upland Road which I understand has had several doorstep thefts. I've had 2 parcels delivered by Amazon in recent days and they were left on the step (doorbell rung) luckily I was home to bring them in pretty quickly so nothing lost. I feel bad for the delivery drivers as they have such impossible schedules but at the same time ...

But if a charity shop can use them why just throw them? Far too much goes into landfill. Everyone can make an effort to reduce what they chuck out even if it seems insignificant in comparison to what big companies or the poor chronic hoarders throw away. Re-use is better than recycling! Have you tried putting them outside your house on a dry day Foxy? Someone will take some of them.

Myself = me. Yourself = you.

Very concerning that a knife was involved. I saw a post on NextDoor ED in the last few days where apparently a man was robbed of his watch at knife point on Henslowe Road.

I took my large collection of filmy plastic to Sainsburys DKH this morning. No sign of a recycling bin for this plastic yet.