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Offline MCTID

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Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« on: January 26, 2019, 03:46:05 PM »
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2019, 04:06:09 PM »
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2019, 07:41:42 PM »
I would do the same they get such a small amount per drop and nothing until there delivered.
Mine often gets left in a secure porch. I don't even have a porch.  ???
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2019, 07:54:42 PM »
40p per drop (literally in this case).

The drop off shops get 40p per as well.

Not a lot of money in it once you have paid for the van etc.

I’ve asked a few of them. They seem quite happy to tell.


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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2019, 08:06:10 PM »
I had a DPD delivery a few weeks ago and the driver turned up 10min earlier then the specified drop off time.  :)
He had to hang around until the time passed before letting me sign for it  :o
I asked if he was on a day rate or per drop and he said the same thing 40p per parcel but he wasn't allowed to drop them outside specified times.
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2019, 08:23:21 PM »
That is slave labour ! I used to get £5.50 minimum ( first 4 miles ) and then 65p a mile, 60p a drop as a London motorcycle courier and that was back in the late 80's  :o

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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2019, 08:33:45 PM »
I know what slave labour is I'v just sorted my tax return and after two firms going bust on me and paying blokes up to date I have been left working 7 days a week  and left with way under what I would have on minimum wage.
So no money on the bikes this year.  :-[
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2019, 11:28:29 AM »
After doing my accounts, I've concluded that driving instruction can be very profitable if I work up to 8 pm and work at least 7 days a week.
After paying for the car, rip off instructor insurance, franchise and filling up every other day means working just the 5 days doesn't leave a lot.
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2019, 01:15:25 PM »
They get one hell of a poor deal, especially if you consider the drivers in really rural areas. Out by me its probably 1 drop every 5 or 6 miles on average.  I try to bunch up parcels if I am sending things, so they pick up several items in 1 stop, it means the buyers have to wait a few days but since I opt for the longest dispatch times and courier delays in my Ebay options that is just the way it is. Herpes ( sorry, cannt help myself) just lost one item I sold on Ebay, first time, in about 70 odd parcels I have sent out. It may yet turn up if the barcode and label got torn off at some point.
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2019, 07:19:42 PM »
DPD...40p a drop...not in London they don't. That guy was pulling your leg. Here they get minimum £2 per drop with £2.20 for central London. They might be clearing 40p a drop after costs, but they make decent enough money for what they do. They are limited to delivering in drop windows because that's what the customer wants...apparantly. Rural areas are not that far behind in terms of cost per drop as the drop density is a lot lower the earmings are not so high...but the overheads are lower.

Where I work, the self employed drivers are getting a decent amount per drop with 100+ drops a day easily possible. If they do the numbers, they can pull in £1K a week before costs. Insurance is murder though....
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Re: Don't you just HERMES Delivery peeps !
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2019, 08:20:38 PM »
I used to own a Newsagents in a sleepy little village outside Dorking. Our Newspapers came from Crawley (W.H. Smith - the festering boil on the arse of the world....if I thought for one minute I could have got away with slotting their Senior Managers, I'd have done so without hesitation....tw*ts the lot of them....never ever been introduced to any Customer Service techniques).

All the Delivery Drivers were always moaning about the crap money they were paid as Self Employed, but they all still did the work.......however, Vans careering off the road in the early morning at 70 MPH was a weekly event....as they also had a number of day jobs as well as working through the night, bundling up Newspapers and then driving round the country lanes at warp factor 7 so they could get home to bed for an hour before they started their day jobs. No wonder their Insurance was so high........but not surprisingly.

Luckily no one was ever killed....probably being asleep when you ended up in the middle if a ploughed field deadened the pain !
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