Part time courier jobs

Zebedee69

Not worth it mate! If you want well paid courier work you have to do the urgent ones. They pay very well and its possible alot of the time to link up the jobs and do a large circle of the country stopping at different towns to pick up and drop off. Its mad because you never know where your gonna end up.

You can do it on a part time basis and either do bit part runs like an urgent delivery and a backload to bring you back home. Or you can write a day off and go on a mega earning trip!

I started this morning at the M4/M5 junction - Went to london just of the north circular - Went to Slough - Went to Swindon - Went to Portsmouth - Went to Cardiff - Back to M4/M5

I could have just as easily gone up norf and ended up Scotland way lmao! There were a fews jobs going spare.

Total trip 530 miles and £355 quid profit after tax/petrol/munchies/wear and tear on car (always budget for this, my car needs a new exhaust luckily iv the money saved!)

Top tip! Get a decent car. Volvo V70 Estate, Vauxhall Omega Estate, BMW 5 Series Estate or even an old Ford Scorpio with front fog lamps and the luxury trim levels. Sound daft but you can pick up a tidy of luxo barge for not much money and you'll thank yourself when your back doesnt hurt after 8 hours. Just make sure its a Diesel and an Automatic and hopefully has cruise control...... Your feet will love you for it!

GPS and a decent speed camera detector is a must as is all the traffic info you can get your hands on. I think all cars now have the TP feature on the radio and Traffic Master is brilliant and has saved me sooooo many times! The more info you have at your finger tips and the more organised you are the easier life is on the road.

Grolsch30

Zebedee69 wrote: »

Not worth it mate! If you want well paid courier work you have to do the urgent ones. They pay very well and its possible alot of the time to link up the jobs and do a large circle of the country stopping at different towns to pick up and drop off. Its mad because you never know where your gonna end up.

You can do it on a part time basis and either do bit part runs like an urgent delivery and a backload to bring you back home. Or you can write a day off and go on a mega earning trip!

I started this morning at the M4/M5 junction - Went to london just of the north circular - Went to Slough - Went to Swindon - Went to Portsmouth - Went to Cardiff - Back to M4/M5

I could have just as easily gone up norf and ended up Scotland way lmao! There were a fews jobs going spare.

Total trip 530 miles and £355 quid profit after tax/petrol/munchies/wear and tear on car (always budget for this, my car needs a new exhaust luckily iv the money saved!)

Top tip! Get a decent car. Volvo V70 Estate, Vauxhall Omega Estate, BMW 5 Series Estate or even an old Ford Scorpio with front fog lamps and the luxury trim levels. Sound daft but you can pick up a tidy of luxo barge for not much money and you'll thank yourself when your back doesnt hurt after 8 hours. Just make sure its a Diesel and an Automatic and hopefully has cruise control...... Your feet will love you for it!

GPS and a decent speed camera detector is a must as is all the traffic info you can get your hands on. I think all cars now have the TP feature on the radio and Traffic Master is brilliant and has saved me sooooo many times! The more info you have at your finger tips and the more organised you are the easier life is on the road.

Hi,

The above sounds very interesting could you give me any further info/links on the type of companies you did this work for?

Many thanks

Zebedee69

Just do some Googling and you'll find a few companies local to your area. Thats the way most get started. Eventually you get to know the major players and become a number they call when they need a job doing.

imported_jac

Hi

My son works for himself as a computer consultant but isn't getting enough work at the moment. He enjoys driving and has a van and would like to do courier work to supplement his income. Has anyone had experience of Parcelnet, we have sent in an enquiry to them, or are there any other companies we can try. He doesn't mind hard work.

Thanks
Jackie

misskool

imported_jac wrote: »

Hi

My son works for himself as a computer consultant but isn't getting enough work at the moment. He enjoys driving and has a van and would like to do courier work to supplement his income. Has anyone had experience of Parcelnet, we have sent in an enquiry to them, or are there any other companies we can try. He doesn't mind hard work.

Thanks
Jackie

Hi Jackie,
I've merged your thread with a previous one discussing part time courier work. You should get an idea from reading the older posts.

Another one to consider is working as a driver for dominos, the thread is here.

rls1973

hi, done a search and got this info

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=395307&highlight=deya

has anyone worked for these companies before? are they any good, are they genuine? what's the pay really ? and how soon do you get paid?

anyone know, thanks?

adecor

I used to work for them years ago & they are fine. The work is hard & for not too much reward. It's normally 2-3 car trips to collect directories, which are passed down to you from a lorry (if it's quiet they will load your car, but this is considered a bonus) As a tip, if you're in an area where they are struggling to recruit, you can usually get additional work (another round). If it's offered, ensure you stick out for extral money on top as they always have a surplus budget. I went on to become a Team Leader & Supervisor which pay more, but you then have the problem to recruit people to deliver.

jackomdj

I second Adecor, although you get a couple of hundred pounds for about 8 or so hours work it is a lot of hauling stuff around. I looked on it as a bit of extra money & forcing me to do a bit of excercise! I would happily do it again, I delivered both Ikea & Phone Books for them.

Nicky

ellou02

I did this a few summers when I was at uni. It can work out, but you have to plan carefully!
I almost gave up when I tried to do a route on my own for Thomson Directories - you've got a car full of books, then have to take out as many as you can carry, deliver them, walk back to the car, unlock it, and repeat many times. very boring.
I did work out a better way though, and that's to have 3 people doing it - one staying in the car driving down the road stopping every 10 houses or so, and the other two delivering to one side of the road each.
MUCH more efficient, and you can then take on 4 routes and get it done in less time that it would take to do one route each (if you see what i mean!).

Also other work available from them is the loading off the lorry (good rate of pay for a few days work), then backchecking to audit other people's routes to ensure they were delivered properly.

Like previous poster said, do a deal for the money, there is always extra available. get more petrol money if it's not in a built up area, etc

Good exercise too!

BartGirl

Hi

I've got an interview for delivering catalogue goods to peoples homes.
Does anyone here do this ?

Can you tell me if:
1. its something i can do with lil one in back of car ?
2. how many items do you deliver per day ?
3. is it v.time consuming ?