Newspaper availability at Grove Vale Library

[Brideshead]

Hi EDF-ers!!!

Sad to report that the daily newspapers are already going wrong again? after just only 3 or 4 weeks.

Last Monday there were NO newspapers at all at 1400. No explanation, no apology, no information.

Today - inexplicably - no Daily Mirror.

No explanation, no apology, no concern by staff. Just ?it wasn?t in the delivery?.

Two failures in one week? Maybe chase up the supplier? Maybe that?s way over dramatic!

Wonder if Southwark council - that is you & me - the taxpayers are still being billed for literally, well, nothing? Send your answers in on a postcard, don?t even waste EDF server data storage!!!

Maybe local government Southwark are trying to match the Boris government at national level. Dysfunctional, unaccountable, ineffective, inconsistent & unable to achieve even the simplest thing. (Disclaimer: Last sentence is a ?Personal opinion?).

[colville09]

Oh no, how terrible. It?s a sign of the times, what with WW3 breaking out and all. How did you survive no Daily Mirror for a day and worse still the poor hapless staff not falling on their knees with apologies before a tax payer. I really feel for you, the world is so unjust

[jazzer]

"Oh no, how terrible. It?s a sign of the times, what with WW3 breaking out and all. How did you survive no Daily Mirror for a day and worse still the poor hapless staff not falling on their knees with apologies before a tax payer. I really feel for you, the world is so unjust."

👍👍👍👍

😂😂😂😂

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

Bit of a waste of the EDF this discussion tho? if a missing Daily Mirror is the worst someone encounters in a South London library in 2022, then it?s passed me by that we have achieved utopia. 🤪

Maybe I?ve missed something about this post!

https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2255773,2262584#msg-2262584

[Chick]

Are you for real?

Brideshead Wrote:

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> Hi EDF-ers!!!

>

> Sad to report that the daily newspapers are

> already going wrong again? after just only 3 or 4

> weeks.

>

> Last Monday there were NO newspapers at all at

> 1400. No explanation, no apology, no information.

>

> Today - inexplicably - no Daily Mirror.

>

> No explanation, no apology, no concern by staff.

> Just ?it wasn?t in the delivery?.

>

> Two failures in one week? Maybe chase up the

> supplier? Maybe that?s way over dramatic!

>

> Wonder if Southwark council - that is you & me -

> the taxpayers are still being billed for

> literally, well, nothing? Send your answers in on

> a postcard, don?t even waste EDF server data

> storage!!!

>

> Maybe local government Southwark are trying to

> match the Boris government at national level.

> Dysfunctional, unaccountable, ineffective,

> inconsistent & unable to achieve even the simplest

> thing. (Disclaimer: Last sentence is a ?Personal

> opinion?).

[Pugwash]

There are far more important things in life than having free newspapers available in a library.

[teddyboy23]

Maybe change your name from brideshead to dickhead

[Sally Eva]

Pugwash Wrote:

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> There are far more important things in life than

> having free newspapers available in a library.

Can I disagree with this in principle? A democracy needs a well informed public. Someone who read the range of newspapers available in most public libraries would have the opportunity to be well informed. I think that important.

[kford]

Fill your boots:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/

[Angelina]

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[Moovart]

Sometimes it feels like the Thought Police are monitoring and posting on this forum.

What's wrong with expecting that a service provided by Southwark libraries should actually be provided reliably.

What's trivial to one person may be important to another and shouldn't it be ok to state a view seemingly trivial or otherwise without being patronised?

[ianr]

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[ianr]

> Maybe local government Southwark are trying to

> match the Boris government at national level.

> Dysfunctional, unaccountable, ineffective,

> inconsistent & unable to achieve even the simplest

> thing. (Disclaimer: Last sentence is a ?Personal

> opinion?).

Do you think a diktat could possibly have been issued?

> Wonder if Southwark council - that is you & me -

> the taxpayers are still being billed for literally,

> well, nothing?

The accounts are usually open for public inspection for a period during the annual audit. That's usually in the summer.

In the meantime, have you emailed the office, if your interrogation methods have failed with the on-site staff?

[NewWave]

As long as they dont have the Daily Mail and Telegraph in its place That'd be fine by me..and if they did I smell a right wing conspiracy

(btw..I am joking!)

[Bic Basher]

You could have had a look at a paper in M&S next door.

[jazzer]

Mayne suffers from SADP syndrome (that's short arm, deep pocket syndrome).

[RoundTable]

For some people, leaving their home once a day to read a free daily newspaper in their local library can be an emotional and/or physical lifeline, so think beyond the headline.

Luckily in the UK we are free to choose the type of mogul-sponsored press-releases drivel that has become of the British so-called media (aka ?cut and paste the press-release machinery). But that?s a different thread. In China, for example, there is just one type of state sponsored drivel, so count your blessings that in the UK we can chose from a wide range of press release drivel.

[Angelina]

good point.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

Moovart Wrote:

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> What's trivial to one person may be important to

> another and shouldn't it be ok to state a view

> seemingly trivial or otherwise without being

> patronised?

You'd have thought so... 🤣

https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2255773,2259390#msg-2259390