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I found important mail including a bank statement and my new Will sticking out of my letter box. I emailed craig [email protected] who is the manager at Highshore road sorting office to ask him to remind his posties about pushing mail through. He responded very quickly.

I've just received this impressively speedy reply:



Thanks for flagging this up. I?ve just had a chat with the office manager who confirmed he had a couple of temporary Christmas workers who started with us this week delivering in your area yesterday, though he was surprised to hear they were still out so late.


I?ve asked him to go back over the training with these particular people and offer them support to complete the work in the allocated time.


I am sure you can appreciate the challenges we have delivering unprecedented levels of letters and parcels at the moment, we have had to bring in some additional resource who are clearly less experienced than our regular posties. Please let me know if you have any other issues.

outside of contacting Helen Hayes again and perhaps also the manager of the Peckham sorting office, is there anything that can be done to improve the service? I haven?t had post for around two weeks outside of things that have been posted tracked 24/48 and know there are several things that should have been here by now if we had a functioning postal service. RM are clearly under pressure and prioritising things like parcels (but even then, I?m waiting on some) with letter delivery seemingly now a thing of the past. As I am shielding yet again, I rely heavily on deliveries and yet it seems like I should just give up on the idea of ever receiving anything that isn?t tracked again.

Really pitiful service at the moment. That's what you get with privatisation. No doubt the former sorting office on Sylvester Road will be luxury flats in the new year!


Meanwhile we barely get any post and when we do it's at random hours of day and night.


Apparently Hermes offers a very reasonable service for parcels (from some newsagents) so worth considering should you need to post something and want to avoid the awful post office queue.

Ha Ha Ha. postman NEW to area was looking at post and looking down the street so i went

Over to him and said are you looking for something, his reply was Lordship Lane. He was standing in Pellatt Road, my reply was at the end of the street. To me it said it all about new postman to area and if we will get post

its a good idea to give the postman a bit of a verbal telling off if you think your post is not very good at the moment. During the first lockdown, my post wasnt arriving to my satisfaction, some days you wouldnt see any sign of a postie. The next time he came i had a proper go at him, and told him to sort things out.


My post improved dramtically, so my neighbours have got me to thanks for that.


Cut a long story short, if a postie has got loads of roads to do and not enough time, he will not miss your road out when deciding, if he knows he'll get an earful the next day.

Nigello Wrote:

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> I got two deliveries today, one about fifteen

> minutes after teh first hich was done by a new

> postie who dropped a laccy band on my path and

> delivered a neighbour's mail. I shouted after him

> but he wasn't able to hear me....


oh dear, you aren't one of these do gooders who tries to make people pick up stuff they have dropped, are you? Universally disliked.

Yeah, that's me. But how did you know I was shouting after him re the elastic band? Perhaps you prefer that option so you can spill your bile because if you considered I was asking him to take the wrongly-delivered post your ire wouldn't be so bad and you'd have nothing to write about on anonymous websites. Mwah!
Our post comes from Camberwell sorting office and is usually pretty good. However, yesterday our postie (who is a diamond) told us that as they are short staffed, they have been told to prioritise parcels and only deliver letters if they have time. So we might be short of Xmas cards this year!

nxjen Wrote:

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> 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.

gumshoe Wrote:

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> Following a recent email to Helen Hayes, she got

> in touch with RM on my behalf - attached is their

> response and latest figures on sickness absence in

> the area.




"The East Dulwich Delivery Office" ?!?!?!?!


That would be the one in Sylvester Road which I believe is now turned into flats?!?!?!?!?!

ianr Wrote:

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> 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!

lameduck Wrote:

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> 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 :(

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