dpd delivered to a customer of ours the other day and she asked where he was going next. She said ,"don't go right as the ford is flooded , go left" "it'll take too long, I have to go right" " but it's flooded" She watched him turn right at the end of her drive, picked up the dogs lead and went for a walk. She found his van in the middle of a torrent of water with him standing by the side of it on his phone.
He said it would have added 7 minutes to his journey and he'd have been late. Methinks the whole system is flawed. Too much pressure on the drivers can't be totally safe and too much frustration for customers when things go wrong.
We often had the opposite problem at work - [semi rural] the regular guys knew the roads/locations so well they often arrived early and their machines wouldn't work. They then had to hang around. The whole system for these drivers is wrong though - whichever way round it is.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We often had the opposite problem at work - [semi rural] the regular guys knew the roads/locations so well they often arrived early and their machines wouldn't work. They then had to hang around. The whole system for these drivers is wrong though - whichever way round it is.
One driver told me that what he does when he's early is to take a photo of the barcode on his own phone, make the delivery , then carry on until the delivery time arrives, scan the picture on his phone screen and say he's just arrived. No idea how that tallies with the van's "tracker" but he says it's the only way he can manage.
When we were kids we played on the road in front of my parents's house, these days my nephews can't do the same because delivery drivers blast through the village trying to keep up with their schedules.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Absolutely, David suggested his boss comes out with him for day, :bring a change of underwear cos you’ll need it!’ Boss declined. 😀 Don't all about money, and not money in the drivers wages.
Don’t get me wrong, he loves the job, loaded up and out on his own, but in the summer with a 70 mile queue down the A30 it’s a nightmare.
When we had that thick snow, was it year before last, he still did that round, he parked in a SM car park on the edge of St Ives and phoned his customers to give them the chance to come to him for collection.
appreciated by some, moaned at by others.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I seem to remember reports on the Beeb that these drivers are paid per delivery and get a minimum wage level so they are bound to take short cuts, speed, throw parcels and so on as it takes too long otherwise. If the company you're buying from has an option to use the postal service, do that instead or start outing the suppliers and courier companies on FB and the rest till their employee conditions improve. Just be prepared to pay more.
@Liriodendron - wonderful. Let us know how you resolve that one. I need a copy of my birth certificate and not a photocopy or scan. Not being standard British I have to get it from Dar-es-Salaam. I received an email about 2 years ago saying they had located the original and would send me a copy upon payment of the fee.
No indication of amount, method, currency nor where or to whom said payment should be sent and, so far, no answers to my subsequent queries. I may have to start again.
@Hostafan1 I have yet to see a Hermes scarf I like. Lots of them about in Brussels amongst women of a certain age and income level but all in garish colours or horrid patterns.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
When we had that thick snow, was it year before last, he still did that round, he parked in a SM car park on the edge of St Ives and phoned his customers to give them the chance to come to him for collection.
appreciated by some, moaned at by others.
We did exactly the same at Waitrose. Organised a few points we COULD get to and offered the option of collection from those points. " appreciated by some, moaned at by others"
I often despair at how dense the general public can be regarding weather conditions and delivering anything @Lyn. I often laugh at radio when there's a road closed due to landslide/accident/snow in Mnay areas up here. They're astonished at the length of the diversion. If they just looked at a map, maybe they'd see why
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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She said ,"don't go right as the ford is flooded , go left"
"it'll take too long, I have to go right"
" but it's flooded"
She watched him turn right at the end of her drive, picked up the dogs lead and went for a walk. She found his van in the middle of a torrent of water with him standing by the side of it on his phone.
Methinks the whole system is flawed. Too much pressure on the drivers can't be totally safe and too much frustration for customers when things go wrong.
The whole system for these drivers is wrong though - whichever way round it is.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Don't all about money, and not money in the drivers wages.
Don’t get me wrong, he loves the job, loaded up and out on his own, but in the summer with a 70 mile queue down the A30 it’s a nightmare.
When we had that thick snow, was it year before last, he still did that round, he parked in a SM car park on the edge of St Ives and phoned his customers to give them the chance to come to him for collection.
appreciated by some, moaned at by others.
@Liriodendron - wonderful. Let us know how you resolve that one. I need a copy of my birth certificate and not a photocopy or scan. Not being standard British I have to get it from Dar-es-Salaam. I received an email about 2 years ago saying they had located the original and would send me a copy upon payment of the fee.
No indication of amount, method, currency nor where or to whom said payment should be sent and, so far, no answers to my subsequent queries. I may have to start again.
@Hostafan1 I have yet to see a Hermes scarf I like. Lots of them about in Brussels amongst women of a certain age and income level but all in garish colours or horrid patterns.
" appreciated by some, moaned at by others"
I often laugh at radio when there's a road closed due to landslide/accident/snow in Mnay areas up here. They're astonished at the length of the diversion. If they just looked at a map, maybe they'd see why
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...