I watched as he banged on the door then ran.
The door opened and a confused pensioner came out looking up and down the road to see if anyone was about only to find a parcel on her doorstep.
The delivery driver was probably on the other side of town by now, speeding to get to his next drop off.
That was the scene I witnessed the other day.
I watched as a guy rushed around throwing parcels onto doorsteps, banging hard on doors then scooting off at speed.
The reason he was rushing around is that the job is crap!
Let’s be honest… they are not the best jobs.
I can’t comment on the pay today, but a few years ago they were terrible.
Many years ago, Andi our techy guy, was forced to step in and help his good lady, Viki, who had decided to try delivering parcels for Yodel.
Having ME and fibromyalgia she was forced to give up working in schools with children with autism and other conditions, a job she loved.
Not wanting to sit around and do nothing, she thought delivering parcels could be something that she could probably manage.
It was running up to Christmas and so the parcel numbers were building up, but still not too much according to the guy who dropped them off at Andi’s house – late!
A delivery company that fails to deliver parcels to its workers on time on their first day surely has to be a warning sign!
Viki was to use her own car and deliver a stack of parcels around the town.
Not only were the parcels delivered to her a couple of hours late, the machine that logged the parcels and plot the routes to make the journey easier wasn’t working, and… she had to have them all delivered by no later than 9pm (I believe).
No one was to work later than 9pm.
All the parcels were supposed to be processed before being delivered using the machine which was broken, so it was done by hand using a laptop connected to a specific website.
This was her first day on the job!
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She had a huge pile of parcels to deliver, she needed to log them all before taking them out, the machine to do it was broken and so she needed to manual input numbers into a system on a website she had never used before.
The only training she was given was by the delivery driver who was rushing because he was already behind on schedule.
As I say, it was her first day on the job. Not the best start.
Viki loaded all of the parcels into the car, and set out several hours behind schedule to deliver them around the area.
A couple of hours later Andi received a phone call from Viki in tears. She was struggling.
Some people were not in to receive the parcels and so they couldn’t be left because they either needed a signature or there was nowhere safe to leave them… others were not happy that their parcel was late and were rude.
She was rushing back and forth like a headless chicken, and that was taking its toll.
Viki was struggling.
Andi stepped in to drive so that she could jump out and quickly take the parcel to the door. He would sit in the car with the engine running ready to shoot off to the next address.
By six o’clock, Viki was completely wiped out. She was in a lot of pain and heavily fatigued.
Andi took her home and then carried on until the end of the day.
Andi is healthy and fairly strong and so he was able to dash around and work relatively fast… but that still wasn’t enough.
At the end of the day there was still a boot full of parcels yet to be delivered which would be added to the following day’s deliveries.
When Andi arrived home just after nine he told Viki to call Yodel and tell them not to bother dropping off another load the following day.
For the money, it just wasn’t worth it. Pay may be better today, but back then it wasn’t.
The following day Andi went out and delivered the remaining parcels, which still took up half of the day, and swore that he would never do a deliver job like that unless he had no other option.
He found out a week later that his cousin, Steve, also had a similar experience.
Steve managed to complete a couple of weeks before quitting. He was forced to have his father drive the car for him so that he could quickly deliver the parcels.
Without someone driving the car, there was no way the parcels could all be delivered in a day. It was impossible.
Running back and forth across town, going back to places where no one was in earlier trying to ensure that all parcels were delivered that day, was more stressful than working in the building trade that he was trying to escape from.
Steve didn’t stay in the job longer than a couple of weeks.
When you rely on a second person to drive you around, it becomes a two person job with a one person wage… and you also have the cost of fuel to take out of that.
That’s crap!
Maybe it suits some people, an Olympic athlete with ADHD and energy to burn might love it and be able to make it work… but for a lot of people I imagine they do it because they believe they have no other choice.
The problem is that for those people, they are working hard for pennies.
I have seen ‘couples’ doing the delivery, sharing the load just as Andi did with Viki that day, and his cousin did with his father.
Two people sharing a wage working late into the evening… they are working hard for next to nothing.
It’s not a job that I would recommend to anyone.
Even as a last resort I wouldn’t recommend it.
Why?
Because I know that there are a lot more opportunities available today that are a lot better in many ways.
- They pay more.
- They won’t cost you money in car fuel.
- They don’t require two people to do the work for one wage.
- They can be done from the comfort of your own home.
- They can be done from anywhere in the world.
- Some require little equipment.
- Some require little to no up-front financial investment.
- They can be done at any time of the day or night.
- Some don’t require selling or needing customers.
- Those that do, customers and clients don’t need to be local. They can come from all around the world.
I’m sure there is more I could add to that list, but you can see what I am getting at.
Today, there are countless different ways to make money that don’t require you to run yourself into the ground for pennies.
One brilliant example of that would be affiliate marketing.
It can cost nothing to start and you can earn large commissions… depending on which products you promote.
Thanks to social media, you can start today to promote products online for free.
Now, I am not going to say that you will just suddenly start to make money today promoting affiliate products… it all depends on what you do, how many people you get your promotions in front of and what kind of people they are.
Sticking pictures of beef burgers in front of 10,000 vegans will not make you any money.
Stick a vegan burger in front of them and you will have a few takers… stick that burger in front of them several times and you will have a lot more takers.
Like most things in life, you need to follow a plan that is proven to work.
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