Late DPR vacancies

[TopperGas]

Delivering parcels in all the school traffic at 3pm to 3.40pm and then in the rush hours traffic from 5pm to 6pm.

Sounds like hell when managers are probably overloading you with more parcels than you can deliver in your time.

For 12.54 an hour too. You would be better off working for almost any other delivery business, other than Amazon obviously lol.

Does any other delivery co pay by the hour rather than by the parcel delivered? I've never known a postie leave for a job at a fellow competitor.

[Smoothbackground]

Are any offices having trouble filling the late DPR vacancies? Sounds terrible 2pm until 8 pm. No one interested in ours. Doubt agency will want them either

You could get paid 6 hours OT for delivering a York of oversized on OT and still be finished by 2pm until quite recently. The incentive is gone for doing this type of work now.

What gets me is the donuts who rush around running like lunatics and not doing the job correctly that boast Oh I did your walk in 80mins when it takes me 210mins and then a line manager gets on my back saying why do you take so long.
I tell you why, I wear a seat belt, I use this contraption connected to my waist for van keys, I actually knock at doors for tracked and wait, I actually post FULL P739 on delivery's left safe or failed.

Maybe — as per usual — I am in a minority of one here, but I find those contraptions for van keys actually save time rather than waste it. I find it handy, literally(!), to always have the key on hand rather than hunting in my left pocket, even if only for seconds, after returning to the van. When doing oversized, you more often than not need both hands free. Hunting for a key in a pocket for a few seconds 100 or more times a day can add up…. Apologies for digressing.

[kazardaimenu]

Delivering parcels in all the school traffic at 3pm to 3.40pm and then in the rush hours traffic from 5pm to 6pm.

Sounds like hell when managers are probably overloading you with more parcels than you can deliver in your time.

For 12.54 an hour too. You would be better off working for almost any other delivery business, other than Amazon obviously lol.

Does any other delivery co pay by the hour rather than by the parcel delivered? I've never known a postie leave for a job at a fellow competitor.

Pretty sure UPS do.

[ted_e_bear]

Delivering parcels in all the school traffic at 3pm to 3.40pm and then in the rush hours traffic from 5pm to 6pm.

Sounds like hell when managers are probably overloading you with more parcels than you can deliver in your time.

For 12.54 an hour too. You would be better off working for almost any other delivery business, other than Amazon obviously lol.

Does any other delivery co pay by the hour rather than by the parcel delivered? I've never known a postie leave for a job at a fellow competitor.

A couple of ex posties from our office now work for Evri, I suspect it's probably not that great in some comparisons but they're both the sort who shall we say would benefit from working totally alone without office politics and obnoxious managers like it is at RM, anyway they prefer it so good luck to them they've both stuck at it for over two years I think so something must be ok.

[hewittinspain]

Sorry for my ignorance but what is a DPR driver, is that the same as LAT drivers or a different role?

[ted_e_bear]

Sorry for my ignorance but what is a DPR driver, is that the same as LAT drivers or a different role?

It stands for dedicated parcel route, this would work for example in an office with a load of hct duties, but also the idea was in some offices they made the walks longer but compensated by having a parcel driver which possibly isn't as economical as just one person delivering both mail and parcels to the same address.