Yodel recruiting 2,500 drivers ahead of festive peak

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Yodel recruiting 2,500 drivers ahead of festive peak

Yodel is hiring for more than 3,000 seasonal roles across the UK, including 2,500 couriers and 600 warehouse roles in preparation for the busy Black Friday and Christmas shopping peak times.

The new roles provide a flexible working environment with couriers able to scale deliveries around their existing schedules.

There is also potential for temporary roles to become permanent in the long term.

Yodel expects to handle up to 53% more parcels over the next three months as consumers ramp up spending ahead of the festive season.

The parcel carrier has already seen significant growth in parcel volumes this year supported by multiple new contract wins and renewals across with some of the UK’s biggest retailers, as well as strong growth of its consumer-to-consumer deliveries, with volumes up 200% in the past two years.

To meet this demand, the business has continued to invest in its network and infrastructure including a new 162,000 sq ft depot in Huyton, doubling Yodel’s capacity in the northwest.

The business also continues to make multi-million-pound investments in its fleet.

Mike Hancox, CEO of Yodel, said: “As we head into the busiest time of year for retailers, we’re expanding our workforce to meet the boom in demand for parcel deliveries as the ecommerce market continues to go from strength to strength.

“We’re committed to supporting our network of couriers and providing a competitive range of benefits, and our partnership with Onsi Pay will enable us to continue leading the industry on this front.

“We’ve already seen high registration rates amongst new employees and are exploring a wider roll out of the platform to existing colleagues in the near future.”

The partnership with Onsi Pay aims to give greater financial flexibility to new couriers joining the business, with them able to access a portion of their earnings the next day, without waiting for the end of their pay cycle.

Anthony Beilin, CEO and co-founder of Onsi, said: “Yodel is one of the UK’s biggest parcel carriers and we look forward to building on its competitive range of benefit packages with this offering.

“Onsi Pay will support thousands of couriers across the UK with more options and control of their finances.”

For more information, click here or text ‘Deliver’ to 84433 to learn more about specific roles at Yodel.

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Meanwhile at our place apparently if the latest new starters don't leave before then they might put them on the lapsed duties, I think that's it for the plan, maybe have a couple of parcel drivers if no one goes off sick.

Mind you that's an improvement on last year's plan which was rotate the mail and concentrate on the parcels, oh sorry my mistake, forgot, we don't do that