This must be my favourite bit of casework so far this year.

It all started when I reported getting a missing sign post for Norcroft Gardens replaced. I was contacted by a resident from Dulwich Rise Gardens asking if they could have a sign post. I then realised they’d also made several complaints about poor Royal Mail deliveries. Then enquiring about the address I couldn’t think where the they lived – Dulwich Rise Gardens. This isn’t an East Dulwich ward road. I asked for a description of where it was as I physically hadn’t been able to find it.

It transpires that it’s accessed via an unmarked alleyway. You either know about it or you don’t. In fact they said they’d never had a street nameplate in 107 years of the houses being there. About ten years ago they said postal deliveries started to become less reliable as postmen and women were moved around more.

So two weeks later we have a street nameplate – hopefully residents there will start to get more reliable deliveries.