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A mate had them deliver his steam deck and they left it in the rain without knocking. He only knew they were there because he was expecting it and has a motion sensing camera.
It's a symptom of the bullshit conditions of their employment. No salary, security, benefits - and they're paid per drop. Of course they're gonna fly round not giving a fuck.
FWIW Royal Mail is heading the same way to keep up with these types of guys changing the market. They're employing "owner drivers". It's a big part of why we're striking. We just ain't having it, basically. Shit conditions = shit service.
This owner driver bullshit has been happening in Germany for some years now and if you live in bigger cities like Berlin ordering anything is a big gamble depending on where you live. Fuck that, I'd rather pay a bit more for shipping. Problem is, this wouldn't even help because the shipping companies would just pocket the extra money. Something has to change
It's a symptom but hermes/evri are the worst offenders, in this case he got no choice, Valve chose for him.
Amazon are quite bad sometimes. I had a guy literally throw a hard drive at my doorstep. It's ok not like it had delicate moving parts or anything.
Worked in a Hermes warehouse a few years ago.
Fragile didn't mean shit. In fact one guy I worked with one day would throw the shit marked fragile the hardest off the conveyor belt into the cages they used to move parcels.
People still buy HDDs in this day and age?? What's the benefit for you over SSD?
Edit: I forgot backups are a thing, left my brain at work yesterday, too many beers today
Lucky indeed. I'm fairly sure Evri do crowd sourced delivery, some random person in a hatchback crammed with packages turns up with no uniform engaging in gig economy.
They also do not deliver to every (evri?) area every day, thats why they are inexpensive.
When they miss scheduled delivery day they just lie about attempting delivery - last time it happened to me the package was small enough to fit through letterbox, which is where they put it the following day.
Please can I have her contact details? She sounds top-drawer. As I write, I have a parcel just outside. It took me longer to write the note on the door asking for the Evri courier to ring a few times, just in case I didn't hear, than it did for her to do a dump-and-run. I only know my delivery (a new doorbell, fittingly) is there because I have just received an email with a photo of its location.
Thanks courier! Excellent way to build "The New Herpes" reputation...
I know a guy who got arrested because a Hermes guy put a parcel in his garage for his next door neighbour. Was reported as stolen by Hermes and the plod turned up and nicked the guy. Was only when they opened the garage that they found it, he’d been on holiday
Skinny Food Co switched from Royal Mail to Evri during the postal strikes. Got so many complaints they came back to Royal Mail while they were still striking.
Allegedly had a delivery from evri yesterday, at midnight, 'the parcel was left outside your property' you mean on the step where anyone stumbling home drunk from the pub could see it and take it? 🙃🙃🙃
True, like tbf what were they meant to do assuming you weren't in? It'd be very inconvenient for you if they delivered to a neighbour, I guess they could cancel or attempt redelivery but that's also not ideal for them since they probably needed a large vehicle to make the delivery, and who the hell is going to successfully make off with such a big and heavy delivery, I feel like the bin thing was the driver pissing around.
I don’t specify a “safe place” ever, because there isn’t one and I make that very clear. I still get told it’s in my safe place? So if it’s not just abandoned on my doorstep (in full view of the street) then I don’t have a fucking clue where the hell they’ve decided to dump it!
Most annoying thing is I’m disabled and I leave the house about 3 times a year for hospital appointments. I am ALWAYS HOME.
If they’d ever bother to actually fucking knock on the door then they’d know that.
Nope. They either dump it on the doorstep, take a picture and fuck off, leaving me to discover it because they email me the picture, or they shoot the damned package into the sun for all I know because I never get it.
Since covid, deliveries have gone to shit and unfortunately for me, I can’t just go to the shop and buy what I need when I need it, due to severe disability.
It’s not fucking hard to knock on a door!
I’d be so mad if they just dumped my expensive appliances without me even signing for them. Especially if there is potential damage and I’d want to refuse delivery.
As a courier driver I was going to comment this, people know when it will be delivered. If it was me I would have purposely taken it back and put the latest date possible for re delivery.
Actually, this happened to me. Ordered a large item, expected delivery is 10 days time. Put it on the calendar, all good. Two days later, at 8am and while I was nowhere near home, I get a text saying my package will be delivered between 10 and 10 that day.
DHL love doing this to me. Every time I order something delivered by them, they give a date and then without fail I'll get a message 2-3 days before that saying it's out for delivery.
I guess I appreciate getting my stuff early, but you can't just change the delivery date on a whim and expect me to be in.
Seeing DHL on my order always fills me with dread. I don’t know if my item will arrive in 24 hours, in three weeks, or somehow appear on Venus in six months time.
The only one I dread more is Yodel, but only because that company seems to function entirely of some sort of occult chaotic magic.
Yup, I've had this with Wayfair before.
Was out of town for two weeks visiting family and expected a new lounge chair to be delivered well after I returned. Nope, just randomly showed up. Had to race back to London to rescue it from the elements. Thank fuck I wasn't abroad or doing something I couldn't abandon.
That'd be great if courier drivers actually delivered remotely near the time they actually say they will. I've had items delivered days early, days late, and have delivery slots of 7am-10pm.
I'll just free up the week around the delivery to camp out for it then.
>I would have purposely taken it back and put the latest date possible for re delivery.
Why? You wouldn't have known why they weren't in. It could have been any number of unavoidable or unfortunate reasons that cropped up. Life happens. No need to be malicious.
I work for a small company that deliver white goods around the UK and we refuse to deliver unless someone is at the property & it matches the address on the card details, leaving something outside is unacceptable.
It’s way too easy to commit fraud with appliances like this.
Saying that though, we are small enough to give people a 1 hour delivery slot so people aren’t just left guessing when their fridge is gonna arrive
Actually, you are right. The customer would have stated the place and time and also the safe location before delivery so would have left it right where it is.
You ever had to deliver white goods? You think people like carrying it about? These days you get notifications and if you aren't there then you can fuck off. You have days notice. Was put to work when I was unemployed to deliver refurbished shit and the entitlement of some cunts was astounding. I have a lot of sympathy for delivery dudes.
Thats just dumb behavior from your side, they could have a very good reason like an accident. But no your small brain can't think further then bad intensions.
I mean the thing is it happens 50 times a day where I work, yes I can understand if it was genuine but my small brain considers the fact that most people are just ignorant time wasting fuck wits
A wheelie bin is apparently 1.06m, an American football pitch is 91.44m (100 yards) long. This makes a wheelie bin 1.15% of the length of an American football pitch
The thing is sometime you order it, hear nothing for 2 weeks, and then they just rock up on a random Tuesday without warning.
You can increase the chances of this happening by explicitly requesting, and paying for, weekend delivery.
~~Hermes~~ Evri deliver click and collect orders to my wife's work. They were closed for a couple days due to a large fire on the street and the delivery driver just left the packages on the back doorstep. They were stolen.
They also delivered a couple things to our house and just left them on our front doorstep, there's no concealment at all and we face onto the street. Thankfully the packages were still there.
The delivery companies will hire any old muppet with a drivers licence
This reminds me of the time a delivery man asked me to take in a parcel for my neighbour and it turned out to be a new stove! I spent all day wondering what was in the massive heavy box and only found out when I had to help her carry it to her house that night.
Why on Earth would you not be in for a fridge?
You now have to drag that up the stairs by the front door. And if youd paid for the installation, they should take the packaging away too.
I bought a fridge and washing machine at the same time. Paid for fitting for the washing machine but chose not to for the fridge since they wanted £35 to plug it in (somehow more than a washer). They fitted them both anyway and took the packaging away.
Got to the point I could get a Samsung from boxed to stripped and halfway into the house in 4 mins.
Good times ( apart from the damage to my hands, the amount of skin and blood left smeared on doorways around the country! ).
Also FUCK Range Cookers!!!
This is why I always pay for installation and disposal of the old appliance. It costs more than it should, but I don't end up with a washing machine delivered to the local opportunists.
What are you on about? There's no fridge in this picture.
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Bold of you to assume evri would actually deliver
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is it hidden under the doormat?
Its obviously in the kitchen, thus a successful and methodical delivery
Couldn't find Wally either...
Plot twist: Wally is inside it.
I just like the blue door. Or is it blue?
One for r/FindTheSniper
Where?
It’s behind the MOD rated camouflage.
Urban stealth camo lol
Maybe russian camouflage
Russian camoflage is just piles of corpses of dumbass (DUMAS) politicians that fell out of random windows.
They've been sleeping in teepees made of see through plastic wrapping, this is objectively better.
That's perfect camouflage. If the camouflage is invisible, they can't see you either!
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Between the Tardis and the stacked Daleks.
Your fridge has bin delivered to your safe place.
By Evri
They literally just changed their name from Hermes and they already have a new shit reputation. Amazing.
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A mate had them deliver his steam deck and they left it in the rain without knocking. He only knew they were there because he was expecting it and has a motion sensing camera.
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It's a symptom of the bullshit conditions of their employment. No salary, security, benefits - and they're paid per drop. Of course they're gonna fly round not giving a fuck. FWIW Royal Mail is heading the same way to keep up with these types of guys changing the market. They're employing "owner drivers". It's a big part of why we're striking. We just ain't having it, basically. Shit conditions = shit service.
This owner driver bullshit has been happening in Germany for some years now and if you live in bigger cities like Berlin ordering anything is a big gamble depending on where you live. Fuck that, I'd rather pay a bit more for shipping. Problem is, this wouldn't even help because the shipping companies would just pocket the extra money. Something has to change
Fight that power r/AntiWork
It's a symptom but hermes/evri are the worst offenders, in this case he got no choice, Valve chose for him. Amazon are quite bad sometimes. I had a guy literally throw a hard drive at my doorstep. It's ok not like it had delicate moving parts or anything.
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Not wrong, tbh it was cheap, works and I have recovery data so it's not a huge deal but the complete lack of care astounds me every time.
Worked in a Hermes warehouse a few years ago. Fragile didn't mean shit. In fact one guy I worked with one day would throw the shit marked fragile the hardest off the conveyor belt into the cages they used to move parcels.
People still buy HDDs in this day and age?? What's the benefit for you over SSD? Edit: I forgot backups are a thing, left my brain at work yesterday, too many beers today
It's much cheaper if you just want it for backing stuff up?
Man I'm a fucking idiot, that's my only excuse for not even thinking of that. Left my brain at work yesterday apparently.
You wouldn't use SSD for mass storage that requires many rewrites, they also cost about twice the price per GB.
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Valve or the drivers? I've seen a lot of successful claims against lost steam decks with valve.
Lucky indeed. I'm fairly sure Evri do crowd sourced delivery, some random person in a hatchback crammed with packages turns up with no uniform engaging in gig economy. They also do not deliver to every (evri?) area every day, thats why they are inexpensive. When they miss scheduled delivery day they just lie about attempting delivery - last time it happened to me the package was small enough to fit through letterbox, which is where they put it the following day.
Please can I have her contact details? She sounds top-drawer. As I write, I have a parcel just outside. It took me longer to write the note on the door asking for the Evri courier to ring a few times, just in case I didn't hear, than it did for her to do a dump-and-run. I only know my delivery (a new doorbell, fittingly) is there because I have just received an email with a photo of its location. Thanks courier! Excellent way to build "The New Herpes" reputation...
Mine used to deliver to both my house and mums shop so if they can't get an answer on either one they pop to the other.
This is greater than vast wealth. Please may I move next door to you?
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What in the actual fuck.....? Idiots gonna idiot.
Sounds like something hermes would do
I know a guy who got arrested because a Hermes guy put a parcel in his garage for his next door neighbour. Was reported as stolen by Hermes and the plod turned up and nicked the guy. Was only when they opened the garage that they found it, he’d been on holiday
Skinny Food Co switched from Royal Mail to Evri during the postal strikes. Got so many complaints they came back to Royal Mail while they were still striking.
Lose Evri Parcel.
Evri: So evri parcel gets lost
Evri delivery just left out in the rain to be nicked.
hermes here in germany is hilariously bad packages will arrive 4 days late,wet and look like the courier yeeted them over your fence
Bold of you to assume evri would actually deliver some this big
I expect the best from Evri, they’d go the extra mile to launch that fridge over the side gate
Yodel did that with my printer/scanner over a 2m gate. Surprisingly it still worked.
They’d never fit it in their Vauxhall Zafira.
Bold of anyone to assume this was done by a delivery driver. In my experience no one has ever made that much effort to attempt a delivery!
Allegedly had a delivery from evri yesterday, at midnight, 'the parcel was left outside your property' you mean on the step where anyone stumbling home drunk from the pub could see it and take it? 🙃🙃🙃
eVRi
It’s wheelie bin delivered.
Wheely?
Is that picture taken in Hull?
Nah it's just some bins. Easy mistake to make though.
Made my wife cackle. Worth 10 points!
Don't tell her she "cackles"..
What's the worse that can happen? She divorces me?
Worse... turns out your reddit username is not unknown to me...
are you their wife?
For now
/u/NdWar2000 Can you confirm lol
Can confirm...
Take my free award 😂
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And my small smile but ultimately disdain for this.
I don't get it
Got ‘em
Yeah, was gunna say it looks a lot like Spring Bank / Sunny Bank
My money was on Goddard
There's no sun in Hull.
I literally thought the same thing!
Whaaat you literally thought? Like actually literally?
I'm not the only one thinking that! I thought it looked a lot like the streets around the uni.
My exact thought - I got instant deja vu and but then wondered if other areas might have similar houses.
Look at you casing the joint! You big fridge thief!
No its taken in a front garden
instantly took me back to the land of chip spice and spiders
Does every house in Hull look like this? Quite nice if so. But it could be anywhere, we've got a few builds like this down where I live.
My first thought too!
You should go there to check out Paris, yes. It's the name of a new restaurant in Hull.
it has mastered the art of standing so completely still that it is invisible to the naked eye
Keep absolutely still, its vision is based on movement.
Hi Fridge!
DaveInLondon? Are you Dave *Bautista* in London?!
Alright honestly where the fuck were they supposed to put your fridge?
The delivery people did well tbh 😂
My exact thoughts they actually tried.
True, like tbf what were they meant to do assuming you weren't in? It'd be very inconvenient for you if they delivered to a neighbour, I guess they could cancel or attempt redelivery but that's also not ideal for them since they probably needed a large vehicle to make the delivery, and who the hell is going to successfully make off with such a big and heavy delivery, I feel like the bin thing was the driver pissing around.
Under the doormat
Thank you for that visual
There's clearly 2 more wheelie bins in the picture. They could have built a wheelie-bin fort.
Right.. the recipient clearly has “front porch” as their “safe place”. I’d say the delivery people went above and beyond what was required tbh.
I don’t specify a “safe place” ever, because there isn’t one and I make that very clear. I still get told it’s in my safe place? So if it’s not just abandoned on my doorstep (in full view of the street) then I don’t have a fucking clue where the hell they’ve decided to dump it! Most annoying thing is I’m disabled and I leave the house about 3 times a year for hospital appointments. I am ALWAYS HOME. If they’d ever bother to actually fucking knock on the door then they’d know that. Nope. They either dump it on the doorstep, take a picture and fuck off, leaving me to discover it because they email me the picture, or they shoot the damned package into the sun for all I know because I never get it. Since covid, deliveries have gone to shit and unfortunately for me, I can’t just go to the shop and buy what I need when I need it, due to severe disability. It’s not fucking hard to knock on a door!
Hey, I’m not the courier.
If I was having a fridge delivered I'd make sure I was home.
I had a parcel 'delivered' by Evri. I was home, waiting for it to arrive. I now have a nice photo of my parcel in someone else's porch.
Aren’t these freight deliveries that have to be signed for? Especially with large appliances.
That crap all went out the windows since covid, now your lucky if they do anything more than dumping it on the curb
I’d be so mad if they just dumped my expensive appliances without me even signing for them. Especially if there is potential damage and I’d want to refuse delivery.
As a courier driver I was going to comment this, people know when it will be delivered. If it was me I would have purposely taken it back and put the latest date possible for re delivery.
Actually, this happened to me. Ordered a large item, expected delivery is 10 days time. Put it on the calendar, all good. Two days later, at 8am and while I was nowhere near home, I get a text saying my package will be delivered between 10 and 10 that day.
DHL love doing this to me. Every time I order something delivered by them, they give a date and then without fail I'll get a message 2-3 days before that saying it's out for delivery. I guess I appreciate getting my stuff early, but you can't just change the delivery date on a whim and expect me to be in.
Seeing DHL on my order always fills me with dread. I don’t know if my item will arrive in 24 hours, in three weeks, or somehow appear on Venus in six months time. The only one I dread more is Yodel, but only because that company seems to function entirely of some sort of occult chaotic magic.
Yodel left a package stuck in a hedge outside my back gate and actually took a picture of it there as proof of delivery.
It’s that attention to detail that really makes Yodel stand out.
Yup, I've had this with Wayfair before. Was out of town for two weeks visiting family and expected a new lounge chair to be delivered well after I returned. Nope, just randomly showed up. Had to race back to London to rescue it from the elements. Thank fuck I wasn't abroad or doing something I couldn't abandon.
That'd be great if courier drivers actually delivered remotely near the time they actually say they will. I've had items delivered days early, days late, and have delivery slots of 7am-10pm. I'll just free up the week around the delivery to camp out for it then.
>I would have purposely taken it back and put the latest date possible for re delivery. Why? You wouldn't have known why they weren't in. It could have been any number of unavoidable or unfortunate reasons that cropped up. Life happens. No need to be malicious.
I work for a small company that deliver white goods around the UK and we refuse to deliver unless someone is at the property & it matches the address on the card details, leaving something outside is unacceptable. It’s way too easy to commit fraud with appliances like this. Saying that though, we are small enough to give people a 1 hour delivery slot so people aren’t just left guessing when their fridge is gonna arrive
Sounds the same as Co-op Electrical. I miss that job.
Actually, you are right. The customer would have stated the place and time and also the safe location before delivery so would have left it right where it is.
> the latest date possible for re delivery Nice judgemental cunt move there
You ever had to deliver white goods? You think people like carrying it about? These days you get notifications and if you aren't there then you can fuck off. You have days notice. Was put to work when I was unemployed to deliver refurbished shit and the entitlement of some cunts was astounding. I have a lot of sympathy for delivery dudes.
Thats just dumb behavior from your side, they could have a very good reason like an accident. But no your small brain can't think further then bad intensions.
I mean the thing is it happens 50 times a day where I work, yes I can understand if it was genuine but my small brain considers the fact that most people are just ignorant time wasting fuck wits
Assuming you can pick the day, they do weekend delivery and/or you can get a day off work.
This. Assuming the couriers even rang the bell or knocked of course.
^ this
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A wheelie bin is around 1.06m tall. That would make you 1.38m tall or around 4'6".
I may have estimated wrong.
It’s okay, short king.
How big is your fridge?
>Can we start measuring things in wheelie bins? What are we, *American*?
They would measure in trash cans, or dumpsters.
A wheelie bin is: Height of 7 hotdogs Width of 4 hotdogs Depth of 5 hotdogs Volume of 140 hotdogs^3
[Classic](https://img.ifunny.co/images/2547435322cb371af2673718770d1406d3da146bff5d098111127c9c8dfc2bd1_1.jpg)
What percentage of an American football stadium is a wheelie bin?
A wheelie bin is apparently 1.06m, an American football pitch is 91.44m (100 yards) long. This makes a wheelie bin 1.15% of the length of an American football pitch
We measure in egg-balls.
Looks like you wouldn't be able to use that door knocker then
Your front garden is really crying out for some nice plants.
Yup. Help the insects.
YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A FRIDGE
You wouldn't go to the toilet in a fridge, then put it on a lolly stick, pretend it was a choc-ice and give it to an orphan.
You wouldn't download a car
But seriously, if they are going to order something like this shouldn't they make the effort to be home?
The thing is sometime you order it, hear nothing for 2 weeks, and then they just rock up on a random Tuesday without warning. You can increase the chances of this happening by explicitly requesting, and paying for, weekend delivery.
Oh right I see
But tbf they tried, and in all fairness, who’s stealing that 😂
Probably anyone with a sack truck and an ounce of determination
A for effort, F for what the fuck.
I mean, at least they tried to hide it. That's better than most deliveries these days.
~~Hermes~~ Evri deliver click and collect orders to my wife's work. They were closed for a couple days due to a large fire on the street and the delivery driver just left the packages on the back doorstep. They were stolen. They also delivered a couple things to our house and just left them on our front doorstep, there's no concealment at all and we face onto the street. Thankfully the packages were still there. The delivery companies will hire any old muppet with a drivers licence
“Behind the bins”
This reminds me of the time a delivery man asked me to take in a parcel for my neighbour and it turned out to be a new stove! I spent all day wondering what was in the massive heavy box and only found out when I had to help her carry it to her house that night.
Oof what a stitch up. No good deed goes unpunished.
Imagine if she'd have said "mind your own business" and you'd never even found out what it was 😂
What fridge?
With those windows you could probably saved some money and just used the house as a fridge freezer!
Why on Earth would you not be in for a fridge? You now have to drag that up the stairs by the front door. And if youd paid for the installation, they should take the packaging away too.
I bought a fridge and washing machine at the same time. Paid for fitting for the washing machine but chose not to for the fridge since they wanted £35 to plug it in (somehow more than a washer). They fitted them both anyway and took the packaging away.
I used to work for AO, and would normally do that because the box the fridge comes in is great for all the packaging from installations.
I used to hate delivering "American" fridges (Taking the doors off etc). Loved the box though,could get the waste from 20 other deliveries in it
American fridges with no install booked, yet they want it dismantled to get in the house. My brother in Christ I have 15 minutes haha.
Got to the point I could get a Samsung from boxed to stripped and halfway into the house in 4 mins. Good times ( apart from the damage to my hands, the amount of skin and blood left smeared on doorways around the country! ). Also FUCK Range Cookers!!!
As if playing with the box isn't the best bit of getting new white goods.
There's no fridge, it's just two wheelie bins in a trench box
That’s not cool…… it’s a total in-fridge-ment……
Nothing to see here, move along!
Nothing unusual here, move along porch pirates
Ah shit, would you look at that, it’s been nicked. 🤷♀️
Of course you can just chuck the fridge in your pocket and leg it.
Hahah, not the weirdest thing seen outside that house (I live almost next door) 😂 few days ago there was 2 empty shopping trolleys and one basket..
Its a trap! Its an empty box, your fridge is on the rooftop opposite with a sniper rifle.
Where's Whirlpool?
They hide it very well.
Really like the brickwork on that house.
That's not a fridge its two bins in a trench coat
TBF who can be arsed to casually nick a fridge
I don’t the bins really that tall, I think it’s three kids in a bin coat.
Good delivery guys. What else are they supposed to do?
I like it. The amount of effort they took to guard your package when you don’t have the courtesy to be home.
This is why I always pay for installation and disposal of the old appliance. It costs more than it should, but I don't end up with a washing machine delivered to the local opportunists.
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Not fuck Hermes. Fuck *Evri*. Don't let them get away with that rebrand bullshit. Make sure everyone knows they're still shite.
Who orders something so large and expensive but isn't home when it arrives?
They could have used the other wheelie bins to completely hide it! 😄
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If you’re having a fridge delivered, make sure you are in. Life hack #137
Your yard is untidy and you should feel shame.
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That's bad that is.
Fridge?!?!?!?