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MaryT

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muffins78

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Thanks Sue - that was really helpful and I wouldn?t be surprised if your friend due the operation is offered via the hospital if there is available vaccine. It kind of makes sense to vaccinate people before they go into hospital. However there are so many people that it makes sense for, when you think of all the different groups of people who are still public facing.. it?s a real puzzle, to say the least.

By coincidence I got my text today, but via the GP - it was different to your text - I had to just respond to say I agreed to get vaccinated and they?d ring to make appointment!

Sue

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Penguin68 Wrote:

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> My postie told me today (Thursday 21st) that 'they

> were now all caught-up at the Delivery Office'.

> Whether that was in general, or just my walk, I

> don't know, but it sounds positive.



Well, it's not my walk.


I had another Christmas card yesterday, posted first class on 15 December .

smooch

smooch

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Just noticed the post box on the corner of goodrich and dunstans road (next to the bollards at Goodrich school) is full to the brim - so it looks as if it has not been collected for week. I popped a small parcel in and realised that it wasn't going any where soon so was able to reach in and remove it. Post box out side FH office is completely emtpy. Not sure if the new bollards are deterring collections (not sure why)


I will try and alert the necessary body but if you have posted anything there recently be aware.

tomskip

tomskip

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25th January and hooray! today I received another Christmas card (is this going to be the last one I wonder? been receiving them in dribs and drabs for over a month). I've been totting it up and we received 3 posted Christmas cards before Christmas and 19 posted Christmas cards after Christmas.


Also my daughter got a birthday card which should have arrived on 11th January. Again, they've been dropping in one per day or so for the last fortnight to make her feel like she has the longest lasting birthday in Christendom.

Sue

Sue

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Lynne Wrote:

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> There was a piece on the London news last night

> about delivery difficulties. Looks as if people

> are starting to realise we no longer have a

> reliable postal service. Perhaps (perhaps)

> something might get done



I doubt it.


I have a horrible feeling that this will be "the new normal".


Unless Labour get in and un-privatise (is that a word?) the service.

Penguin68

Penguin68

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Off topic perhaps but nationalising what is now a private service can be expensive if you are to recompense the new owners, and quite damaging to future government financing if you don't. Royal Mail's problems are patchy - some areas are still well served, even when ours isn't. There are service standards which Royal Mail is meant to meet - it isn't in a number of areas, and there is a regulator which is meant to hold them to these. However, significant failure might lead to fines, which the current owners wouldn't like.


Our problems are at least partly those of mismanagement at a local level, and it is not clear that any change of ownership would remedy this. Nor that there would be a bottom-less money pit to fund what's needed if it was nationalised. Indeed in current circumstances definitely not!


Pressure from local and national politicians (and we know Helen Hayes is very definitely on the case) is our best option here. And now Helen isn't on the Front Bench she has more time on her hands!

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