Delivery Drivers

[Specmaster]

I think BD's Evri driver has been transferred to Essex, this video has just been posted on my local neighbourhood forum.

https://nextdoor.co.uk/p/SRhgkgsW9_m6?u ... Nzg0MzI%3D

[MED6753]

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[Specmaster]

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Try this, I have video'd it on my phone and hosted it to share.

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqxmLEtwElgNgapReYe ... A?e=4aIB36

[Zenith]

It doesn't surprise me.

The neighbours across the street have a 6 foot high fence between the front of their property and the back, and it continues around the back of their garden.

A couple of years back I saw a Hermes driver, a woman, deliver a parcel. They were out. She couldn't see over the fence. She threw the parcel over the fence and then held her phone over the fence and took a photo.

At one time, they'd try to find a neighbour to take delivery of a parcel if the people at the address weren't in. That seems to have been abandoned.

[bd139]

Yeah could be right. Tables are turned here.

Strangely enough, the delivery company I'm getting the biggest problems with now is Royal Mail. They hired some horrible short vicious bitch Chinese woman who hates her job and hates her sidekick from the jobcentre even more. I live in a fairly large apartment block now and they park the van out the front and pile all the packages outside the entrance door in bags / loose. Then she shouts at her sidekick for several minutes while smoking and he shovels it all inside. Then they both do a combination of ramming the things as best as they can in the wrong mail boxes and leaving large packages dotted around randomly. If the package says "leave at apartment door" or "signed for", it gets dumped with the rest of that stuff anyway and some shitty photo is taken and it says "XXX" as the signature. Of course the front door is wedged open for the entire time and as observed on the security cameras, another (possibly related) Chinese woman makes an appearance some mornings and walks up a couple of flights of stairs and waits. Then she helps herself to anything special delivery. Of course you're screwed because it takes up to 2 hours for Royail Mail delivery notification to turn up on your phone even if it's signed.

Evri/Hermes on the other hand, turns up, buzzes in and comes up in the lift, hands the package to me in person and generally does a good job. Oh and you get the notifications instantly.

[Zenith]

Royal Mail, yes. There was a time when we had the same postman for years. Then they started to last a year or so. Now it seems to be new ones every few weeks. It must be people from the Job Centre who've been cornered into accepting the job.

[bd139]

Having been cornered by the jobcentre many moons ago as a student and being send to the slavery house that is Homebase, that is exactly how it works

[nixiefreqq]

Having been cornered by the jobcentre many moons ago as a student and being send to the slavery house that is Homebase, that is exactly how it works

stop fecking around on the tea site and get back to your math homework.

SLACKER!

[bd139]

Having been cornered by the jobcentre many moons ago as a student and being send to the slavery house that is Homebase, that is exactly how it works

stop fecking around on the tea site and get back to your math homework.

SLACKER!

Hey I'll have you know I'm slacking off work and fecking around on here

I've done my homework and submitted it

[mnementh]

Fecking off you say...?

mnem

[mnementh]

Having been cornered by the jobcentre many moons ago as a student and being send to the slavery house that is Homebase, that is exactly how it works

"YobCentre" is similar to "Staffing Agency" over here?

A soulless place that exists solely to shovel warm bodies into every slightly-above-minimum-wage meat grinder factory/warehouse/borg cubicle ship/cunt-collective phonebank that can't keep workers for more than a week because these vampires only pay you 1/3 of what they bill out for your work?

mnem
Kelly Services; fuckers ate my soul and tried to bill me for my own contract.

[tggzzz]

Having been cornered by the jobcentre many moons ago as a student and being send to the slavery house that is Homebase, that is exactly how it works

"YobCentre" is similar to "Staffing Agency" over here?

A soulless place that exists solely to shovel warm bodies into every slightly-above-minimum-wage meat grinder factory/warehouse/borg cubicle ship/cunt-collective phonebank that can't keep workers for more than a week because these vampires only pay you 1/3 of what they bill out for your work?

... and remove your unemployment benefits if you don't.

In other words, a state organisation rather than a private company. Don't ask about the state outsourcing staff because private=>more efficient. Cough.

[mnementh]

Oh, they don't even make the pretense of "outsourcing" over here anymore.

mnem
the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy are coming for you...

[bd139]

Technically speaking the people who work at JobCentre are usually people who have failed to integrate with society and obtain an actual job, mostly because they are unqualified to deal with anything, so it's a self-propelling spiral of doom.

My mother went through a phase of unemployment, partially intentionally, and just sat there at JobClub smoking and drinking like everyone else. There were professionally unemployed people out there

[mnementh]

WTF is HoBase? Some form of "daily abuse pool" where you sit and wait like migrant workers on "that street corner" for fuckheads who "need a hand for a few hours"?

mnem
*shudder*

[Zenith]

Job Centres are government run things. They used to be called Labour Exchanges.

There are also private recruitment companies of various levels and sorts; head hunters, recruitment agencies, body shops. Staffing agencies sound as if they are equivalent to body shops.

Jobs worth anything are most likely to be advertised in the trade press, and handled either by a specialist recruitment agency, or the hiring company themselves. I really wouldn't expect Job Centres to deal with that sort of recruitment, but rather unskilled or low skilled work.

[Zenith]

WTF is HoBase? Some form of "daily abuse pool" where you sit and wait like migrant workers on "that street corner" for fuckheads who "need a hand for a few hours"?

mnem
*shudder*

A chain of DIY sheds. I can't think of US equivalents. They sell wallpaper and paint, electrical fittings and cable, plumbing stuff, tools, garden stuff, timber, kitchens, bathrooms, flooring.

[mnementh]

So a Homeowner Hell-type warehouse hardware megastore? Or smaller, like the nationwide chains of "local hardware store" that all sell the same exact Chinesium shite as Homeowner Hell, only for more money and less selection?

mnem
*pisses off to make a COSTCO list*

[Zenith]

That's about the size of it.

The big one here is B&Q but there are a few others. Wickes is one with less choice but better prices. Tradesmen use it sometimes although they are more likely to use builder's merchants, which also tend to be large chains these days. I've always thought Homebase was a crappier version of B&Q.

There are other chains such as Screwfix and Toolstation, which are catalogue stores. You go in and fill in a form with the catalogue numbers at the counter, and they avoid having a large display space. They tend to deal in things that tradesmen are more likely to buy than homeowners.

[mansaxel]

That's about the size of it.

The big one here is B&Q but there are a few others. Wickes is one with less choice but better prices. Tradesmen use it sometimes although they are more likely to use builder's merchants, which also tend to be large chains these days. I've always thought Homebase was a crappier version of B&Q.

There are other chains such as Screwfix and Toolstation, which are catalogue stores. You go in and fill in a form with the catalogue numbers at the counter, and they avoid having a large display space. They tend to deal in things that tradesmen are more likely to buy than homeowners.

A lot of the good ones here are closed to the public; you may shop only with a pre-arranged company account. Some do allow the public in, but have insane list prices that all corporate account customers pay at most 50% of. There are a few online stores that do stock all the good things, and aren't opposed to selling to the public, but that requires planning.

[MED6753]

UPS, FedEx, and Amazon always bring the package up 3 flights of stairs and leave the package at our door. USPS can't be bothered. Our locked mailboxes are inside the ground level front door and any packages delivered by them are tossed on the floor. But luckily they are out of sight of any porch pirates.

[Specmaster]

Yeah could be right. Tables are turned here.

Strangely enough, the delivery company I'm getting the biggest problems with now is Royal Mail. They hired some horrible short vicious bitch Chinese woman who hates her job and hates her sidekick from the jobcentre even more. I live in a fairly large apartment block now and they park the van out the front and pile all the packages outside the entrance door in bags / loose. Then she shouts at her sidekick for several minutes while smoking and he shovels it all inside. Then they both do a combination of ramming the things as best as they can in the wrong mail boxes and leaving large packages dotted around randomly. If the package says "leave at apartment door" or "signed for", it gets dumped with the rest of that stuff anyway and some shitty photo is taken and it says "XXX" as the signature. Of course the front door is wedged open for the entire time and as observed on the security cameras, another (possibly related) Chinese woman makes an appearance some mornings and walks up a couple of flights of stairs and waits. Then she helps herself to anything special delivery. Of course you're screwed because it takes up to 2 hours for Royail Mail delivery notification to turn up on your phone even if it's signed.

Evri/Hermes on the other hand, turns up, buzzes in and comes up in the lift, hands the package to me in person and generally does a good job. Oh and you get the notifications instantly.

It has far more to do with the person, than the company, I'm fortunate, currently all the delivery people seem to be OK, and our post lady who delivers the parcels in a van is excellent and not a bad looker either

[Specmaster]

Having been cornered by the jobcentre many moons ago as a student and being send to the slavery house that is Homebase, that is exactly how it works

stop fecking around on the tea site and get back to your math homework.

SLACKER!

Hey I'll have you know I'm slacking off work and fecking around on here

I've done my homework and submitted it

Yeah, its being returned with comments written on like, "must try harder" etc.

[bd139]

Yeah, its being returned with comments written on like, "must try harder" etc.

Not yet!



Just got to keep that up for 120 test papers

[Cerebus]

Apropos Royal Fail versus Herpes and Dented Parcel Dumping:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67336778

Post Office to send and receive Evri and DPD parcels

Post Office customers will soon be able to send parcels over the counter using DPD and Evri delivery services.

It is the first time in the Post Office's 360-year history that people can choose to use companies other than Royal Mail.

The new service will begin in selected stores in time for the peak Christmas delivery season, said the Post Office.

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