Please sign this petition to get our postal service sorted (takes seconds)

[hellosailor]

Please sign this petition to try to improve the postal service in SE22 and local area.

A postman told me yesterday that there are ?untold trolleys? of unsorted letters and parcels still in their sacks at the sorting office in Highshore road. Some have been sitting there for months. We are still waiting for numerous letters, parcels and legal documents sent to us from as far back as the autumn. At our house on upland road we?ve had maybe 6 deliveries in 4 months and then it?s generally circulars not the letters or packages that we?re actually expecting or need.

https://www.change.org/p/residents-of-east-dulwich-fix-the-broken-postal-service-in-east-dulwich?recruiter=false&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=share_petition&recruited_by_id=e30f0c00-6fe9-11ec-ab1b-61f3261bdfc0&utm_content=fht-31959587-en-gb%3A6

[Castleton]

Done.

Waiting for 2 parcels and untold post

[Annie5]

Signed the petition

[Charlie15]

Done, thanks for setting it up

[Monkey]

Signed. Thank for organising. Much appreciated.

[peckhamside]

ED exceptionalism, there are delays all over the area and other postcodes in the country. I see the whole area covered by the sorting office is now described as SE22.

[Penguin68]

I see the whole area covered by the sorting office is now described as SE22.

No, you see the whole area covered by the DO (Delivery Office) now described as SE22. Yes, by Royal Mail, and correctly. The ED DO was moved to Peckham, but remains the ED DO. The two work forces (and work) are separate. Delivery problems are for us in SE22 - the Peckham side is working, if not well, at least sufficiently better that deliveries to that postcode are not identified as current blackspots. [Delivery Offices and Sorting Offices are different - posted mail goes initially to Sorting Offices - mail which has been processed goes finally to Delivery Offices for final distribution to customers].

The problems for ED (SE22) deliveries started well before Covid (indeed before Sylvester Road was even closed, as the workforce was run down) - so the petition is appropriate as identifying a specific, non Covid and non seasonal problem, even if it has worsened recently linked to Covid.

[CPR Dave]

I don't think any of the people that petition is addressed to are in a position to do anything about it.

Helen Hayes tried before and things have got worse not better.

[alice]

Petitions can change things. This one won?t. Covid, covid related isolation have more than decimated staff. Check the Royal Mail website.

[redjam]

Do you have any better suggestions?

This has been going on a lot longer than the recent Covid spike.

[Rockets]

Sickness has been mooted for a very long time as being one of the reasons - this has been going on for so long now it is just so tiring - it's been over 3 years of problems which become horrendously pronounced around Christmas.

The two bits of junk mail we got on Saturday made us think that we would get a deluge of mail today but nothing - not a jot. Our kids get The Week Junior and they have missed 5 issues now.....how long is it going to take them to get the backlog to us all?

https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/sort-it-out-royal-mail-to-close-east-dulwich-postal-office/

[alice]

There are 12,000 postal delivery offices. 23 are having severe difficulties ours is one of them.

[ianr]

> This has been going on a lot

> longer than the recent Covid spike.

Indeed. https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/search.php?5,search=Royal+mail,page=94,match_type=PHRASE,match_dates=0,match_forum=ALL

[ianr]

alice wrote today:

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> There are 12,000 postal delivery

> offices. 23 are having severe

> difficulties ours is one of them.

According to the House of Commons Library briefing paper for a 2017 Westminster Hall debate on delivery office closures https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2017-0174/:

The latest detailed estimate of the number of delivery offices in Royal Mail?s network is for 2014/15 when there were 1,333 delivery offices. Royal Mail are currently reporting, as they have for some years, that there are around 1,400 delivery offices in their network.

Andrew Towers (Head of Political Strategy at the Communications Workers Union) tweeted that 75 delivery offices had been closed since Royal Mail Privatisation.

Today there are 74 DOs listed at https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/12556 as not providing normal service. On 20 December it was 22, on 5 January it was 29, and a couple of days ago I think it was around 55.

[Shellbell76]

Just so you know the Peckham side is just as bad I am in SE15 and got my Christmas cards middle of jan took a month to get to me, I?m lucky if I get post 1 a month so it?s just bad full stop. Have also signed the petition

[Spartacus]

This seems to be having some results

BBC News - London hit worst by Royal Mail delivery delays

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60069763

[redjam]

The story has also been picked up in the Guardian in an article which mentions East Dulwich (with a pic of the EDT): https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/22/royal-mail-hit-by-decade-high-of-more-than-1m-complaints-last-year

And in the Times (behind a paywall): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ofcom-warns-royal-mail-over-month-long-post-delays-x6wc8l37w

Good to see the petition getting us more coverage! Let's hope it embarrasses Royal Mail into some kind of action.

[kford]

Signed. Missing four parcels and a final demand costing an extra ?70 in handling fees just arrived, dated 13th December.

[firth]

Signed

[Brideshead]

How has it come to this? In 2022?

Some Londoners can recall the days of the pre-work time early morning delivery followed by afternoon delivery EVERY DAY except Sunday.

And now this. No notification to affected residents. No apology. No remedial action taken. No compensation. No urgency.

?Royal Mail? is a completely private company these days isn?t it?

Well I guess at least it fits in with all the rest here in ED? poorly managed local libraries, mad traffic management schemes, dysfunctional testing kit supply, unreliable overpriced overcrowded privatised public transport? you get my drift.

[Lynne]

Throw in dreadful GP and dental services and you've got the full set, Brideshead