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09-12-18, 09:38 AM | #1 |
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I had a delivery today from Sportsbikeshop via DPD - it was supposed to be tomorrow but they were "in the area".
Two things I wasn't aware of (which to my naive mind are wrong): 1) you cannot sign for a package if the driver is early, the signature screen is locked out and a timer is displayed (to prevent speeding maybe?) 2) if you are not in and a neighbour won't accept the package, the driver doesn't get paid for that delivery. |
09-12-18, 11:15 AM | #2 |
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Yep. Same with supermarket deliveries. We've had a Morrisons van sit up the road from our house for half an hour with the drivers reading the paper before they can deliver on a few occaisions.
Delivery driver conditions of employment can be really crap. Gets worse when you're working for one of the companies that require you use your own vehicle. We had a driver turn up recently with paint all over her car. The seller had sent it with a service that banned sending with them (we didn't know this an assumed she'd send with someone who could handle it). The driver was using her own vehicle and self employed, so the people she worked for wouldn't cover her car damage / clean up. (I got the imperession that she was using her car without business insurance too.) DPD drivers are regularly doing 150 drops a day. If you work out how many minutes per drop that is it seems absurd. As a side note, I've always found DPD the best service for receiving packages, with a one hour time window, regular text updates and the ability to track the driver in real time. Way too expensive to send with though unless you're a business on a contract unfortunately. |
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But because of them being seen as bad, all the younger members of my team aren't union members, and generally accept things that are forced upon them by the powers above, which is a dangerous path to go down. My union still advocate strike action as the tool of choice, but even I see that as completely pointless as the public won't support us if we did. Unions can work, just look at some of the cases won, such as the Uber drivers right to paid holiday. These days we assume the right to paid holidays if we're employed by a company, but the Trumps of this world would have us working 365 days a year for nothing if they had their way.
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09-12-18, 12:52 PM | #4 |
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only problem with this country is we still have all the safeguards but employees are muppets who are protected under unfair dismissal laws. this in turn is putting companies out of business as they cant sack useless employees.
dont get me started on the fekwit teens who want an apprenticeship then decide half way through to become lazy so and so's. |
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Is the law different in Scotland? In England any company that "cant sack useless employees" deserves to go out of business. The law is very much on their side just provided they follow the correct proceedure. All they need is a performance capability policy and then they implement it. The reason sacked employees win tribunals is nearly always because some dipstick manager thought he was above following the legal requirement and carried on anyway.
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10-12-18, 07:23 AM | #8 |
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Good morning all.
I've found that with all the delivery services, it's totally dependent on how switched on the driver is. A lot of my deliveries come via DPD. When my regular driver is on it's fine, but when a temp is on it can be a blinking nightmare! Often drivers claim that there was no one in, which I know to be Horse dung, as my doors have been open since 7.30 in the morning, & when my delivery gets back to their enormous distribution centre it can disappear for ages! Methinks 8 days is the current record. Cheers. |
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10-12-18, 06:00 PM | #10 |
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Our local DPD driver changed about 6 months ago. The service went from dire to good immediately, he's also a pleasant chat with a natural smile.
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