The misery of Ferndale Rd Post Office
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Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
LMAO! I got one of those cards through that says they were unable to deliver blahblah!
Went down to collect my goods, pretty much everybody who went up to be served ended up in an arguement, hot, smelly and miserable.
Queued for about 18 months and I was in the wrong fucking place all along.
Went down to collect my goods, pretty much everybody who went up to be served ended up in an arguement, hot, smelly and miserable.
Queued for about 18 months and I was in the wrong fucking place all along.
Looks like a load of parents have taken the advice of Laquisha Jonz (drag queen) and are giving their kids the low-rent Alton Towers experience - queue for hours, snaking back and too past each other and then, when you get to the front, give them a sniff of poppers and spin them round a couple of times so they feel disorientated and sick and, hey presto, the full monty without the overheads!editor said:
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I've never had to queue that long - just go at a sensible time
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I must have been lucky - never had to wait more than 10 minutes
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
At least they are providing chairs
Or do you sit on the floor
Like a stoodent?
Or do you sit on the floor
Like a stoodent?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
No chairs in the queue to my recollection.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
It was an answer to this:
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I think it was just ed's turn of phrase
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
I think it was
Petition to save Streatham's post office has gathered something like 4500 signatures (mainly paper based) - here's the online petition for those at the Streatham end of Brixton:
http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/streathampostoffice
http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/streathampostoffice
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
T & P said:
That's bad news - used to use the HH one all the time & they're ace. Camberwell is not so good, open shorter hours, already much busier and about to get worse with all you SE24ers shlepping over.
Slaps on the back all round for Leighton, Crozier & co.
top_biller
a big bowl of wrong
Ms T said:
Me neither. I only got something throught the door recently thanking me for signing the petition, I remember it being in quite an optimistic tone.
That sucks.
T & P
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Sadly it appears to be true. We've got hand delivered letters from Royal Mail (not personalised- just 'Dear resident') saying how the Herne Hill office is closing around the end of this week and how any item for collection after a certain day should be collected from Camberwell instead
It's a royal pain in the arse.
They kept it quiet didn't they?
It's a royal pain in the arse.
They kept it quiet didn't they?
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
T & P said:Sadly it appears to be true. We've got hand delivered letters from Royal Mail (not personalised- just 'Dear resident') saying how the Herne Hill office is closing around the end of this week and how any item for collection after a certain day should be collected from Camberwell instead
It's a royal pain in the arse.
They kept it quiet didn't they?
It has been threatened since February - as reported on this thread
It will be interesting to see whether the Streatham "save our post office" campaigners - who seem to have had people standing outside in all weathers for the last month collecting signatures - are any more successful than the (more genteel) Herne Hill sorting office campaign.
welllll
Well I thought it would be unique to Brixton.. But alas nooo... up here in the sunnier climate of Middlesbourgh.. ( I jest) it just the same... screaming kids, people arguing why they need insurance to get a tax disk, the local drunk outside begging for ' a few bob for a cup of tea', numerous arguments about who was in front of who.. then they all stare at me really pissed off as I pop into the 'Private buisness customers room' where i get seen to immediately.. and rush out very quickly avoiding the glare of the heathens!!!!editor said:
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
The PO in St James park is one of the singular experinces you can ever have there's two or three of them in there who regularlly bully and order about the que if you're not standing in an appropreate postition or manner in the que then you get bawlled out and sent to the back like some barmy victoria school... I appreciate that there's a lot of problems with the PO service but it does seem to employ a certain level of mardy bastard
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Ferndale Road PO is particularly depressing I find, not just cos of the queues and screaming kids but because it's so soviet-communist-institutional in its design and ambience. Compare it to Argos - it also has the queues and the screaming kids and the pissed-off people but I'd still rather queue there because at least it doesn't feel like you're stuck in 1960s Russia...
Course it would be silly to queue in Argos if you wanted stamps, but you see my point.
Course it would be silly to queue in Argos if you wanted stamps, but you see my point.
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
Ms T, thats outrageous that you can't get it redelivered. Do you know if this is going to be the case permenently?
I am sure when they talked about closing HH post office re delivery was an option
I am sure when they talked about closing HH post office re delivery was an option
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
it does make u wonder what the PO are up to? I mean both Brixton & Camberwell branches are shambolic in todays customer friendly environment. (It's the queues i mostly worry about) Given all the pressures from competition and the fact they've closed other branches u would've thought they might at least redesign the other ones. Can't cost that much surely?
waverunner
Be nice or I'll bite
I've been living in a bubble. What has happened to our post offices? Why are they closing them? 
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