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Please pick up the phone!
“Did you know we have a website?”
Really? ‘Contact us’ is the button I always look for……
But, more and more these days, we cannot get a response or even an acknowledgement from businesses and councils. If our calls are so important to you , then please, please PLEASE….PICK UP THE PHONE.
E-mails can be responded to in seconds……but I think the delete button on many companies’ keyboards are the first to wear out.
Many councils declared even before working from home became a right , that for efficiency they would become ‘digital by default’, yet still many have no digital superhighways they can command – or understand.
Advertising for more customers? Well, don’t ignore the ones you already have.
Now when you walk into a restaurant, the first engagement is not, “Good evening, lovely to see you.” No , it’s the less friendly, “Have you booked a table ?”
Well, I kept calling but no-one picked up the phone. And the place is half empty usually too but still the ‘how do we get rid of these people’ opening gambit still takes place.
Christmas is now here so I hope you talk to someone to change that faulty that present.
Just don’t rely on the button ‘Contact us’.
Joseph Abramson,
Arnold
Carlton train services ‘not fit for purpose’
I WRITE in total frustration at the ineptitude of our local railway.
For decades now we have been subjected to delays, cancellations and engineering work . We have also suffered the industrial action by Aslef and RMT. Yet the service at Carlton Station continues to decline and trains, if they run at all! They take longer to get to destinations than in the days of steam.
And as a further blow – the greedy train companies have just announced another rail fare rise!!!
If cancellations and late trains were unusual I wouldn’t mind but it seems a daily occurrence at Carlton Station that there are issues of some kind despite the years of work and the millions spent.
The country depends on its rail infrastructure and it’s simply not fit for purpose.
I wrote to East Midlands Railway for comment about the constant delays and cancellations. I am yet to receive a reply.
Time for renationalisation I’m thinking .
Going forward it’s National Express for me – I’m done with trains.
Graham Todd,
Carlton
Do we actually have MP for Gedling?
I totally agree with David Hindley (‘Saddened by borough homeless figures’ – Letters 22/12/22) who wants our MP to do more to help the homeless.
But has Gedling even had an MP since losing Vernon Coaker?
If we have then who is it? He or she has had almost five years to tackle the problem – and it’s now as bad as ever, if not worse
I say roll on the next election and let’s get a local MP to represent us in Gedling.
Raymond Ellis,
via email
Stop ‘being selfish’
Last week Val Griffin wrote in to Gedling Eye saying that Gedling Borough Council should put a congestion charge in place to tackle traffic hotpots and reduce pollution (‘Congestion charges would tackle hotspots in Gedling borough’ – Letters 22/12/22)
To achieve this in Gedling borough we would have to do away with the two hours free parking and also charge £5 per hour which would kill all trade in Gedling towns – so stop being selfish Val Griffin.
Tony Henderson
via email
