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Blokes just delivered some crc gear and said cos he cant turn round on my property hes marking it as no access. I live on a lane that is best backed up and ive said tankers etc do it
I offered to move a car to see if he can turn at the top but tbh its tight.
Said its illegal to back onto a road.... its an unclassified road with zero traffic and hes got someone with him to act as a banks man
He just flounced off in a huff.
Mate you're covering rural Dumfrieshire your gonna find loads of houses worse than me. Also his attitude wound me right up.
Being a dick takes more effort than not being a dick.
Wouldn't mind its only a mwb viviario...
Mine is a really efficient friendly guy. No problems
your gonna find loads of houses worse than me.
And he's still only got 1 minute per drop to deliver.
Dicks gonna dick. They're everywhere.
I got nothing useful to say.
As above. Good bloke. Always leave him 5* reviews
Evri are all drivers rude?
You know the answer to this, of course. Who he works for has little impact on his level of diskishness. For the record, our Evri driver is lovely and brings the dogs a cheeky little biscuit when she comes. She's also left he mobile number before in case we needed to cancel a pickup or stuff like that.
I only usually see mine disappearing back up the drive as soon as he knows I'm there.
Yep, it's total luck of the draw.
We've also got a lovely Evri driver. Always leaves the neighbours stuff with us as he knows it's cool, which makes his life easier.
The Royal Mail lady just apologies almost every time about how slow it all is at the moment, like she's causing it. Feel sorry for her.
Our Evri driver is a young lass, really good, waves to folk she knows.
Being a dick takes more effort than not being a dick.
Not if the bloke is a dick by default.
FTR our Evri driver is lovely. We've known her a few years now and we regularly chat through what's happening in our day to day lives.
The Evri courier who visits ours is a diamond but his round is probably a lot easier than your guys...
Could be worse. Our area is covered by a third party. Regularly all the driver leave en masse and the parcels back up. One poor lady started working there and posted on the local FB that we'd probably all have to be patient as the backlog was in excess of 4000 parcels and growing. Standard delivery with actual drivers employed for the last leg is a week to 10days. 6 weeks is the going rate when it goes down. Hence, an email to an online company to check if they use evri is needed before every order.
On the plus side, their record keeping is rubbish so if after a week or two nothing turns up, you contact your retailer and complain and evri's trace seems to stop at the hand over to the 3rd party. Evri compensate the retailer and they send a new one. Inevitably the first one does arrive a month or two down the line and you end up with two of whatever it was at Evri's expense.
Don't think I've ever met our 3rd party evri drivers though - they never knock on the door - just sling it in the porch and drive away.
Our Evri guy is a hero, super nice, knows who best to leave stuff with if you're not in. We know if he's collecting something we can leave it in a safe place for him to collect if we're out. Super reliable.
He warns us all when he's going to go on holiday so we know to expect crap service for a week from whoever is covering him.
The person is the deciding factor, not the company name.....
Never had a problem with Evri couriers attitudes at all. Had a regular one for years and we get relief drivers from time to time. We have a steep drive they have to carry up and they always have a smile. I smile at them too….
Never Seen ours as they abandon parcels on the door step and then claim they have been delivered to an outbuilding.
Mine. Dave is ex PO and fantastic but even calls all the others rude names.
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Spooky he has just set my cameras by waving at them and telling me he has dropped some stuff off in the porch.
With me always a smile and a thank you very much.
As to your driver, I would think remonstrating with him about what a tanker can do isn't the best way to start.
Last Friday a Evri driver left (without being told to) a parcel leaning against the front door thereby advertising the fact that there was no one in. By the time I arrived about 3 hours later it had been stolen.
Better training would have stop that. I was obviously not impressed. Cyclesense to their credit refunded me fully the day I reported it. They were however the last Van Nicholas Yukon mudguards for sale anywhere on the internet, I will now have to wait until the factory in China completes and ships the latest order. Unimpressed probably doesn't cover it.
Ouch. Combine that with the knowledge that they'll open the box, take one look and bin it, and that smarts.
Not sure about evri drivers but it seems to me Tesla drives are the new Audi drivers. Determined to show every how fast their electronic car can accelerate at every opportunity and remove this from them by driving sensibly and their heads explode
Combine that with the knowledge that they’ll open the box, take one look and bin it, and that smarts.
Yup, I did walk around the streets with that in mind.
Yup, I did walk around the streets with that in mind.
Facebook Market place, they'll be on there for £5 by now.
And he’s still only got 1 minute per drop to deliver.
This +1
Don't blame him, blame the race to the bottom arms length "employment" contracts that they use to undercut the minimum wage.
Our local Evri delivery couple* are brilliant.
Always friendly and always call round later if we're not in as they only live a street away.
*They seem to share the job as it's 50/50 which one turns up but they're always in the same vehicle.
I'm lead to believe that the rural routes are the ones hated by the like of Evri/Yodel drivers. They get paid a tiny amount extra because of the distance, but not enough to make up for doing fewer drops. I can imagine that anything with less than ideal access is enough to send them over the hedge
Mine is good. Usually looks like he has come straight from an 80's gay disco (whatever the weather)
looks like he has come straight from an 80’s gay disco
Ooer! you can put your package in my safe place any time ...etc..
Our Evri driver is great. Tracy brings a biscuit for the dog, talks about hers and our holidays. When we are away she puts other deliveries in our shed that have been left by the door. We are in rural Cumbria
Dicks will be dicks.
Our current Evri guy is brilliant, actually feel sorry for the guy working 7 days a week 12hrs + a day for a shit wage.
I think it also helps if you have neighbours who're reliably in, or at home when the delivery guy comes around. There's a couple of the local drivers on our street's WhatsApp and they'll be on there finding out who's happy to take in parcels and they deliver to the one house. Sometime if the missus is working from home, the hallway looks like a warehouse, but the upsides are worth it
Our Evri driver is really nice, very friendly, chatty, brings gravy bones for the dogs, genuinely pleasant chap.
Our amazon driver has green hair and is an old punk, with cool tats and cool stories, also very nice.
Our parcelforce driver is OK, can be a bit grumpy, but I put that down to working for parcelforce.
royal mail guys are in a hurry. all the time,
Our guy had been great too.
Now, Yodel, that's a different level of fheckup. Anyone got my coffee machine, £60 of coffee, or a load of bits from Wiggle that I ordered 10 months ago ? 🤔
All my delivery drivers are lovely!
The last two Hermes/Evri people have been great, Joseph the current guy always has a smile on his face and is very friendly. The one previous to the above was a grumpy sod who took offence to something someone on our track said to him and then refused to deliver to any of us- always saying access was blocked when it never was.
Ours is fantastic - always brings a dog biscuit for the mutt which she thinks is fantastic.
Most of all my others are lovely and we have no issues.
Ours is a right tool, he was super matey with my old next door neighbour though weirdly, used to hear them chatting before he banged on our door, didn't return a greeting, didn't look up from his phone. Probably the grumpiest rudest delivery driver I've ever dealt with.
He was off for a bit, and the stand in was lovely, no idea why some people are arseholes at work, but you get them in all industries, less often these days that 15 years ago though it seems. Maybe I'm just grumpier.
Dave's a good guy.
Don’t blame him, blame the race to the bottom arms length “employment” contracts that they use to undercut the minimum wage.
It's possible your guy was born grumpy, but being crushed by the Evri profit-grasping machine every day won't help. He's probably got a tougher job than you.
We have the same delivery guy Duncan, he won't deliver to my house either ...