sparkybird
ask the bird...
They told me the system was down - whatever that means. But only this post office
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2014
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I think it is called Horizon. It's what prints out the stamps and records the recorded mail etc. Also prompts the teller to cross sell foreign exchange, credit cards, insurance etc.
There is a mock branch in Old Street which I was once allowed to fiddle with the computer. Looks exactly like a real post office branch with all the furniture, signs, passport photo machine etc. I think they can change the lightning to simulate different times of day and seasons, although I didn't see that.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Yeah. With a 10,000 majority. Impossible for Labour to lose at the next election. A shoe-in for whichever lucky, well-connected person gets selected by the
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Lesbian icon! she is witty, creative, lovely and wears fab frocks. She has organised arty gay glam camp fun club nights for years. She was local to Brixton for many years - used to live on Dulwich rd, then Effra rd.
Suprised to hear she is into party politics.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Anyone who actively seeks election should be barred on the grounds of vanity, cupidity, megalomania etc.
Instead, our representatives should be selected by lot.
OvalhouseDB
Well-Known Member
And very astute in her reviews and views. She used to come and see a lot of work at OH. Once she rushed in late, chucked her cloth bag down on a table - on top of a tea light. Bag caught fire, one of our helpful front of house staff emptied a jug of water on it...wrecking her phone!
prunus
Tick tock.
She's definitely not been selected as candidate yet - I have my voting papers here, vote's not until 29th March.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Sounded horrific. My gf ran in to Waterloo and was rather pleased with herself.Utter carnage outside Morleys this morning as hundreds of people tried to squeeze on to already full buses heading into central London.
I walked round to the overground station and got on the first train to Victoria without any trouble at all.
Chilavert
Undermining strikes :-(
It was utterly horrendous! There were PCSOs and a few coppers trying to marshal the crowds as they surged towards the buses, but pretty much all of them were already full having come down Brixton and Tulse Hills.
I was going to walk in myself, but thought I'd check the trains and lo, I got on the first one.
I was going to walk in myself, but thought I'd check the trains and lo, I got on the first one.
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
The tube was open when I went through on the bus at 9.30. I just worked from home for an hour an left later and my commute was quicker than normal.
The chaos when I got to Waterloo though with people unable to work out how to get any further, walk people walk
The chaos when I got to Waterloo though with people unable to work out how to get any further, walk people walk
TruXta
tired
Guessing lots of commuters don't know the way to work on foot?
They should use their smart phones for something useful.
TruXta
tired
They could just be lazy fuckers too.
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hiraethified
I got completely drenched last night. Here's a set of photos taken around Brixton at 1am:
More: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/02/...-last-months-record-breaking-rainfall-photos/
More: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/02/...-last-months-record-breaking-rainfall-photos/
I got completely drenched last night. Here's a set of photos taken around Brixton at 1am:
More: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/02/...-last-months-record-breaking-rainfall-photos/
All quiet on Brixton Station Road is my fav of that bunch. The lone cyclist heading up Atlantic Road deserves respect, that's proper cycling.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
There's a money management course coming up which may be of interest to people on benefits or low incomes generally: http://carershub.org.uk/news/Course...idays-starting-28th-Feb-2014-4th-April-2014-/
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
T & P
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Unless one has just started a job in London for the very first time and has never been to London before, who on earth would not know how to walk to work from Waterloo to pretty much any central London/ City of London location? They'd have to be pretty fucking hopeless IMO...
TruXta
tired
I think you're underestimating people's capacity for stupidity.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Drones.
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hiraethified
It's running as far as Seven Sisters.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
That'd be the transaction management terminal that's down - the over-sized till that basically manages and logs all transactions. They're pretty shite (questionable software has meant a significant minority of sub-postmasters getting investigated by the Post Office's "Special Investigations Branch" for fraud until a group of them got a judicial review on the practice) and, IIRC, use a fairly old and basic system to shift the data from branches to their destinations.
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One station too far then.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Also scans the barcodes on payment slips and forwards the transaction to the relevant company, among other things, and "balances" the till.
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