You are reading a single comment by @ltc and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@ltc
I work as a multi drop bike courier, the company I work for mostly delivers things for DHL but we've recently started delivering Yodel as well. I really don't know how anyone makes any money from it. Up here in Leeds they pay something pathetic like £1.65 per drop and you don't get paid anything if you don't manage to deliver the package. Even on a cargo bike, covering just the city centre, you'll probably average 10 stops per hour. In a van I can imagine you'd average less than that. Even if you manage to successfully deliver 10, or even 15 packages an hour, I don't understand how you can make enough money to cover your living expenses on top of the expense of keeping a van running. I totally get why people who work for Yodel or other similar companies are more concerned about getting the job done as fast as possible rather than as well as possible. It's massively frustrating when a Yodel driver chucks your package over a fence or in a bin on bin day but I don't really blame them.