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My Yodel Parcel
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...is stop number 94 out of 140. That's a LOT of parcels they have to deliver.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.140 drops .. sounds like a mornings work. It would be entirely dependent on the size of the area to be covered.
Back in the 90s I set up as a courier and worked for four distribution networks at the same time. 200-250 drops a day was quite normal. When the summer or christmas catalogues were released, the networks would bribe me into accepting up to 300 parcels. This was all before the internet took a grip ! Constantly completing 300 drops , every day of the week became mind blowing. Never again once I got away from that job !
Back in the 90s I set up as a courier and worked for four distribution networks at the same time. 200-250 drops a day was quite normal. When the summer or christmas catalogues were released, the networks would bribe me into accepting up to 300 parcels. This was all before the internet took a grip ! Constantly completing 300 drops , every day of the week became mind blowing. Never again once I got away from that job !
A post on this thread, from a former Yodel driver, dated November 2018, stated that he got paid 47p per delivery. Given that Yodel drivers are all self-employed, having to pay their own fuel and insurance costs (and possibly the lease charges on their vans as well), they need to do a hell of a lot of a deliveries in order to to make any real money from the job:
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Self-employed work, but under a contract to a particular company, often pays far less than someone in a PAYE position would earn for equivalent work. When I was 'trade plating' (delivering vehicles across the country and having to hitch between jobs), I reckoned that I'd had a good week if I managed to achieve 60% of the National Minimum Wage rate. 40% was more usual and I once worked a 20-hour day, with no stops at all for food or drink, where (after having deducted the fares I'd had to pay out when there wasn't time to try hitching between jobs) I made the glorious sum of just one pound!
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Self-employed work, but under a contract to a particular company, often pays far less than someone in a PAYE position would earn for equivalent work. When I was 'trade plating' (delivering vehicles across the country and having to hitch between jobs), I reckoned that I'd had a good week if I managed to achieve 60% of the National Minimum Wage rate. 40% was more usual and I once worked a 20-hour day, with no stops at all for food or drink, where (after having deducted the fares I'd had to pay out when there wasn't time to try hitching between jobs) I made the glorious sum of just one pound!