3 January (Part 1) - Bin waiting a long time
The
reader and fairly close neighbour
who lost his bin when it suffered more
abuse than it could take took advantage of the offer in the Winter 2023 Bexley
Magazine and asked for a replacement bin on 11th November. His order disappeared
into a black hole so after a month he chased it up by telephone. “We haven’t got any.”
He is still binless.
I notified our Labour Councillor and Sally Hinkley checked the story with Mr. Binless
and made suitable enquiries within the Environmental Services department.
The holidays will have got in the way of course but she has at last been given
an answer of sorts. It remains “We haven’t got any” but there is hope. There may
be a small emergency supply available in mid-January.
The
delay was caused by the regular supplier extending his delivery lead time
from the usual 4 to 6 weeks to 10 weeks and then allowing it to slip to 20 weeks.
I’m not sure that excuses keeping residents in the dark about the
non-delivery of their bins for nearly eight weeks -
and counting - but at least Belvedere residents have Sally to fall back on.
The X message was issued on 2nd January 2024.