Shocking pictures reveal ‘disgusting’ conditions inside @Hermesparcels depot where workers ‘feel like slaves’

[maroondevo52]

At my work we share a depot with Parcelforce and even at Christmas when the place was packed out with Parcels there was nothing that looked anything like the carnage in those photos.

 

I'm in the depot for about an hour before I start out on my run and I can honestly say that any breakages ect are accidental, I know Parcelforce get a bad name but in the 9 years I've been there I've never seen anything that would make me worry about using them.

 

I know a good few drivers with Parcelforce and they also have to do between 80 and 100 drops per day, It's the self-employed drivers that struggle to make a decent living working for them.

[maroondevo52]

22 hours ago, Micky the Hippo said:

900 parcels in an 8 hour shift is a delivery every 35 seconds, that cannot be correct.

Totally impossible I would think, I know guys that struggle to do 100 in the same time.

[maroondevo52]

9 hours ago, brassnecked said:

If 800 of them was one stop, and they were small bags on a pallet maybe Could easily have 300 parcels on 100 stops, average 3 per stop try 75 stops over 300 miles in 11.5 hours. in Mid Wales.

Yeah, I was reading it as 700-900 drops.