BM08

Are they really that bad? where i work when we get van drivers most of them have faces like a slapped arse
This one women who works for Parcel force told me she was doing 84 drops or something?and she was ready to throw the towel in

she said it will get better in the summer though.......

Anyone else do this job?

PhilM

Get into specialist couriers, much better, transport organs/bloody or something. Where I work the couriers (EMT/Globaleyes) do aircraft parts transfer, the guys do East Mids, Cardiff, Bristol and back to East Mids, with about 5 boxes at each to be dropped off. Easy life if you don't mind being sat on the motorway Gotta beat the hell out of town parcel deliveries, being stuck in the citys.

picky775

Im a delivery driver for a food store,sometimes its ok if i havnt got a lot of deliverys coz i go home and sit in the house and get paid for it,but if im busy i hate the job.Its amazing how many knobs are on the road,how some people get there driving licencess i just dont know.I can see how a lot of people get road rage .It has its good points but like any job but its also got its bad points .

dojj

iTrader: (3)

depends on which firm you work for really

parcel force types wil be expected to do the majority of their round or they don't get paid and this can be upwards of 70 drops a day

the bonus is that you are normally on a set route and you just collect and drop off in one particular area and don't have to go shooting all over the shop

then again, i'm in the specialist delivery business and some days we are so slack that we go and cover deliveies in places like wales and nottingham (from london )

but we tend to get about 5 pr 6 minimum and around 35 top whack

charlie luciano

iTrader: (3)

84 drops? she got off lightly when I was a delivery driver for Parcel Force 97% of the delivery routes had a target in excess of 100 drops a day, once you hit the target you got something like £3:25 and then 25-40 pence for every drop after that depending on route, it wasn't a bad job but a lot of tearing around but important to remember its your licence that will end up with points on it as did mine, I was 20 when I started there and done 8 years of delivery driving, I wouldn't go back to it now though,


Luciano

Csm

yep it is shite and i do it as my employment job as i also do my valeting part time self employed

You have good days and bad days tho, and xmas you can write of seing much of the family what with getting late away in the morning (up to 4 hours late) try and get most of the run done but still missing loads of jobs !! and then return to depot to sit and wait 2-3 hours to unload not getting you home till 22.30-11.30 at night and thats from being at depot at 7am

And they expect this from you 5/6 days a week , all i can say is thank fook im part time now and have been since last august cos fuck that shit 5/6 days a week

Harris.

I work as a courier, get paid a day rate then when i go over 60 i get £1 for every drop ontop , does add up at the end of the week. Some days its hard but other days i get to come home for 3 hours during the day