Our usual Evri parcel delivery chap has been missing for the last two weeks,He’s a proper chap & If we weren’t in he’d put the parcels in one of my greenhouses in the back.
We’ve been getting young Un’s delivery drivers lately, probably for the run-up to Christmas.
Now these bloody tools don’t even knock at the door any more & instead throw the parcels over the 6-foot-high side gate They turn up in brand-new vans full of battle damage
Needless to say, we’ve had things broken. That gate is covered by CCTV if they say otherwise.
Just got an email asking how our driver did! HA! The useless sh*&^ stain…and he didn’t close the front gate, tosser
I know they’ve got a hellish busy job but if the office expects you to run around like a blue arse fly take the bloody parcels back to the depot if they take the pish with too many deliveries.
I agree with the above.My lovely wife receives parcels frequently from these clowns.In our late 70s my wife and I are no longer olympic sprinters.By the time we make it to the front door we might just see the van disappear round the corner.We have a door bell and I’ve had to use a black marker pen to write B E L L and some pointing arrows on the door to assist the more challenged of these “drivers.”
Having said that there is no way I would work for anyone under their conditions of work.Meal break?Don’t be silly.Then pee in a bottle.
once had a snoopy neighbour who was taking in parcels for anybody nearby -and then opening them/keeping sometimes . I ended up posting myself a steel plate inside a pizza box without a stamp. He paid the postman the unpaid postage fee thinking hed got a good un .
I was on that 10 years ago, I don’t think I could keep up so much now. As well as me being older, the vans are bigger - at the time Amazon subby spec was 5 cubic M so a transporter or similar, I see lots of Sprinters about now.
I seem to recall that some intermediary providers would want up to 2k back off you toward van damage if you caused it. I quite quickly went over to running my own vehicle.
Yeah, could have been, but the one that got broken was just in a black plastic bag with no packaging inside to protect it. As much the fault of the shipper too.
having been in some of these places i know what happens to the packages when they come down the conveyor belt they dont have time to turn around and put them nicely in the cages or whatever they just get thrown over their shoulder if they land in the cage they land in the cage if they land on the flood they might get picked up if someone sees them before they get run over with a pump truck
If people are stupid enough to TRY and achieve the sort of workload these tossers give them…let alone get through it all,.they deserve all they get.
Same as the illustrious tear arse heroes in our job.
If you do it…they will keep on giving you it.
I dunno what things are like your end of the globe, but I’ve got some recent experience in the courier game here (no names, for obvious reasons). I won’t make excuses for urine-poor behaviour or hooking things over the gate and legging it - if I do anything not in line with company procedure, I get dragged in for one of those “explain yourself” conversations.
That said, most people (not saying you) want their stuff delivered but baulk at shipping costs: thus, Cheapskate Couriers find a gap in the market by undercutting all the bigger players (same as it ever was in the transport game) - you get what you pay for. In many cases, existing courier companies will take on extra drivers for the silly season: some (many?) are on short-term (e.g. 6-week) or casual contracts, get paid per drop (not per item) so the more drops they do, the more they get, not that the going rate is all that flash. I know for fact that at least two of the big courier/ parcel delivery mobs here do this and I can’t imagine UK is any different. Depending on who you’re a subbie for, if you take deliveries back, you don’t get paid, you don’t get work the next day but you do get shouted at.
For full-timers like me who know their run and how much can reasonably be done within a certain time, I return drops to the depot if there’s too many to do (they can track my movements via the scanner and the truck), and believe me, “residentials” are the most fiddly, time-consuming drops of the lot.
You say you aint naming them for ‘obvious reasons’ ?
You also say you aint working there anymore, so why not mention them?..what is the problem with naming and shaming them?
I would be, just to show them up to what they really are.
There is no way in hell I would work for that sort of outfit, I know what I am like, I’d be jacking the first day.
It’s bad enough with who I work for,.and some of the pi55 take policies towards their drivers that they do.
OK I aint stupid, I don’t name and slag them on any form of social media…again for obvious reasons, but I certainly tell everybody I know about them.
On other hand I still give 100% as that is how I work, and I like the actual job I do.
Way I see it is if these sort of companies themselves can not see anything that is wrong with what they do to, and how they treat their drivers, then what is the problem?..
They should stand by it.
Thing is they know themselves that some policies are unfair and not entirely right, so they don’t want the embarrasment of them being made public.
My answer to that?
F*** em.
Correct. I wish some commenters would remember I’m putting my tuppence-worth in as an “insider” who cannot afford to divulge much over the interweb - my livelihood depends on it.
How is showing displeasure in being treated like a ■■■■ ‘ranting and railing’ exactly?
Thing is mate now you bring it up, maybe if you yourself practiced a bit of what you interpret as… ‘ranting and raling’, you may find yourself having a happier and easier working life, which you evidently do not have by your own admission.
I was merely stating that my lot have TRIED to take the pi55 out of me, (evidently not as bad as yours do) but by my…‘ranting and raling’ (whatever tf that actually means ) I manage to deal with it a bit better.
Cheers.
Which I already acknowledged during my…‘ranting and raling’.
I also stated that I wrongly thought that you had left, by your use of words ‘recent experience’ which suggested to me differentlly to ‘current experience’
As I said I get that.
Nobody is stupid enough to publicly slag off their own firm.
I thought apparentlly wrongly he was not there anymore…I thought I had clarified that.
My point was if he was not there anymore, and he was stating proven facts, what is the problem.
Here we go…I used to work for Harry Vos NL, they tried to run you ragged, (but legally), the job and the firm in my own personal pov was a crock of sh and the guy in the UK depot was an absolute winker.
Facts…especially the last bit.
They turn up in brand-new vans full of battle damage 
) I manage to deal with it a bit better.