Overworked delivery drivers

Lou84 · Post by **Lou84** » 03 Nov 2020, 18:16

An interesting read

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-54775719" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

postslippete · Post by **postslippete** » 03 Nov 2020, 18:56

It says they get paid 50p a parcel and deliver around 350 packages a day. Thats £175 a day, or £875 for working a 5 day week.

I remember that deliver drivers are quoted to deliver 20 parcels per hour at Xmas. So to deliver 350 parcels that would equate to driving on the road for 17 and a half hours!!

Post by **rambo1** » 03 Nov 2020, 19:00

postslippete wrote:It says they get paid 50p a parcel and deliver around 350 packages a day. Thats £175 a day, or £875 for working a 5 day week.

I remember that deliver drivers are quoted to deliver 20 parcels per hour at Xmas. So to deliver 350 parcels that would equate to driving on the road for 17 and a half hours!!

Not if you're just leaving them on the doorstep!

postieblueshirt · Post by **postieblueshirt** » 03 Nov 2020, 21:40

rambo1 wrote:
postslippete wrote:It says they get paid 50p a parcel and deliver around 350 packages a day. Thats £175 a day, or £875 for working a 5 day week.

I remember that deliver drivers are quoted to deliver 20 parcels per hour at Xmas. So to deliver 350 parcels that would equate to driving on the road for 17 and a half hours!!
Not if you're just leaving them on the doorstep!

But your not leaving them on the doorstep.you are placing them on the doorstep stepping back 2 metres and waiting till the item is picked up by the recipient there is a difference.

Post by **wacko74** » 04 Nov 2020, 06:15

Not entirely comparable as South Korea is a low income tax country so it actually pays (at least financially) to work long hours even in low paid unskilled work.

The only winners in this country if you were to work those kind of hours in a low paid job would be HMRC.

Post by **rambo1** » 04 Nov 2020, 09:52

postieblueshirt wrote:
rambo1 wrote:
postslippete wrote:It says they get paid 50p a parcel and deliver around 350 packages a day. Thats £175 a day, or £875 for working a 5 day week.

I remember that deliver drivers are quoted to deliver 20 parcels per hour at Xmas. So to deliver 350 parcels that would equate to driving on the road for 17 and a half hours!!
Not if you're just leaving them on the doorstep!
But your not leaving them on the doorstep.you are placing them on the doorstep stepping back 2 metres and waiting till the item is picked up by the recipient there is a difference.

I mean other couriers that seem to be able to leave them on doorstep. Of course we can't which is why we can only do 20/hr.

30+YEARMAN · Post by **30+YEARMAN** » 04 Nov 2020, 13:37

Are they delivering letters aswell

Post by **blue1873** » 04 Nov 2020, 15:05

Got a parcel delivery from Amazon last night at 22.05 (wtf ) .
Lady delivering item said she still had 5 or 6 customers to get to

Is this how RM see parcel deliveries in the future, I would like to think
not but then again they dont give a monkey's about staff because they
know someone will do it

Post by **wacko74** » 04 Nov 2020, 17:37

30+YEARMAN wrote:Are they delivering letters aswell

And 4 lots of D2D's

EdRush · Post by **EdRush** » 04 Nov 2020, 19:16

Today I had double mail on every loop as the whole walk failed yesterday (as I was on my day off) plus a thick Chrismas Aldi catalogue for every call (and the usual flimsy pizza and other leaflets)

I had to split down every loop JUST to get the mail into the pouch. Nevermind the packets

Fu*k me the packets.. it's Christmas everyday since lockdown

No staff to cover my day off, no hope of getting the manager to cover dropped loops...

Tomorrow I face triple mail and packets on the loops I dropped

Dropping dead sounds good