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@sheffield-junglist
The work is actually alright. It's fairly mindless, you haven't got a boss breathing down your neck and once you get used to that stupid f'ing box, it's essentially just riding around central as fast as possible for 3 hours at a time (They're making everybody do a month in central when they join, then you can pick your own area).
The box isn't as bad as it looks and it barely weighs anything, but yeah, it's horrendous in the wind and about as aerodynamic as you'd imagine, which is really fun going across the bridges. You can almost tack with it, and that isn't an exaggeration.
The food is intact when you arrive. The restaurants tend to pack it pretty tightly in the bag and it goes inside a smaller thermal bag inside the f'ing box (as it will henceforth be known).
Not sure about the other areas, but in central I've never earned below £10p/h, with tips included in that. Which isn't amazing, but for brainless courier work it could be worse. I would imagine this could go down if you were in quieter areas.
According to the Garmin, I end up doing about 100 miles per week for work, split between 5x 3hr shifts, and that's including the commute from SE15 to central. So not too bad overall. They make you do 2x evening shifts (6.30 - 9.30) on the weekend, but they're the only mandatory ones and you can choose your shifts the rest of the time.
Let me know if you're intrigued about anything else.
@edscoble - If you know central reasonably well (Which I do) and have Google Maps and an A-Z, it's hard to go too far wrong