My OH works for them too-The money isnt good IMO. You cant take any time off, you do and thats you gone..you get Christmas day/boxing day/new years day and thats it. You get blamed for poor packaging resulting in broken items, if company shoves many items in one box with no padding then yeh, during its hundreds of miles in random vehicles theres a good chance it will get broken. They have to stuff the cars with parcels, OH gets 45p per delivery (no matter if on the 1st delivery attempt or the 3rd) ..meaning if he leaves half behind to go get them later it uses more petrol meaning he gets even less money. It works out that hes on way less than min wage-you have to take into account petrol, inusurance (you arent insured to use the vehicle for work so need new/additional insurance), wear and tear on car, pay your own tax/NI, OH had to buy a new phone as people will actually ring in the middle of the night to tell you when they want a re-delivery and then has to use this to make calls back to people..its really not a easy way to make money but a job is a job at the end of the day.
