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Pollycat

Takmon said:

You really have no clue what your talking about do you lol...

What exactly is the point your trying to make with that sentence? Parcels from a warehouse are still sorted before being sent the correct distribution centers and finally into the correct van for the most efficient delivery route. But you seem to think that they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country....

Surely nobody could think that...

sweetsand

Pollycat said:

Takmon said:

You really have no clue what your talking about do you lol...

What exactly is the point your trying to make with that sentence? Parcels from a warehouse are still sorted before being sent the correct distribution centers and finally into the correct van for the most efficient delivery route. But you seem to think that they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country....

Surely nobody could think that...

Incredible.

Pollycat

sweetsand said:

Pollycat said:

Takmon said:

You really have no clue what your talking about do you lol...

What exactly is the point your trying to make with that sentence? Parcels from a warehouse are still sorted before being sent the correct distribution centers and finally into the correct van for the most efficient delivery route. But you seem to think that they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country....

Surely nobody could think that...

Incredible.

Indeed.

I think it's hard to believe (I personally wouldn't have used used the word 'incredible but I'm not arguing over your use of it ) that someone would think that "they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country..." but the poster I quoted certainly seems to think that the OP does actually think that.

I was just querying whether someone could actually think that's really how courier companies work.

Takmon

Pollycat said:

sweetsand said:

Pollycat said:

Takmon said:

You really have no clue what your talking about do you lol...

What exactly is the point your trying to make with that sentence? Parcels from a warehouse are still sorted before being sent the correct distribution centers and finally into the correct van for the most efficient delivery route. But you seem to think that they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country....

Surely nobody could think that...

Incredible.

Indeed.

I think it's hard to believe (I personally wouldn't have used used the word 'incredible but I'm not arguing over your use of it ) that someone would think that "they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country..." but the poster I quoted certainly seems to think that the OP does actually think that.

I was just querying whether someone could actually think that's really how courier companies work.

Well in their OP they did say if you order 10 items online then 10 vans are sent out and in the post i quoted they seemed to think letters were sorted but parcels from warehouses aren't, so it does seem that's how they think it works.

ToxicWomble

Some people just don’t understand the complexity, beauty and efficiency of good logistics

Manxman_in_exile

I wish the OP would tell us what she'd been listening to on R4 - I asked pages ago.  I really want to listen to it.

Manxman_in_exile

I was walking to my local Waitrose a couple of weeks ago.  It's just over a mile away at the end of a residential road.  As I started on my journey I noticed a woman who was obviously delivering parcels from her car.  During the course of my journey (about 20 minutes) we kept passing and re-passing each other as she delivered about ten parcels/packages along this one road.  Seemed quite efficient to me.

The road I live on is about 200 yards long.  I frequently see couriers delivering to up to about half a dozen addresses at one time on my road alone.  It's bl00dy annoying if you're trapped behind them in a car, but it seems pretty effifcient to me.

Obviously it's become more efficient and less polluting during lockdown.

sweetsand

Pollycat said:

sweetsand said:

Pollycat said:

Takmon said:

You really have no clue what your talking about do you lol...

What exactly is the point your trying to make with that sentence? Parcels from a warehouse are still sorted before being sent the correct distribution centers and finally into the correct van for the most efficient delivery route. But you seem to think that they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country....

Surely nobody could think that...

Incredible.

Indeed.

I think it's hard to believe (I personally wouldn't have used used the word 'incredible but I'm not arguing over your use of it ) that someone would think that "they don't sort the parcels and they get put into random vans that have a delivery route that covers the entire country..." but the poster I quoted certainly seems to think that the OP does actually think that.

I was just querying whether someone could actually think that's really how courier companies work.

How can you make a sweeping statement like that when most people know that facts can at be stranger than fiction, or as assumptions in your case.  I'm not going to hold your hand and educate you by an excellent narrative is when some young children were asked where does the milk come from and many thought it was the "shops."  

HollyTrees

But what about the conception of the super shopping malls in big cities like Manchester. I doubt a person would go there to buy one item. They would make the trip viable and end up purchasing a car boot full.
Compared to someone might just go online for one item without realising that one item needs a delivery van. 
Thats all the debate was about. I cant really add to that. But I kinda agreed with them. 
I think society today has reached the half way house anyway and beyond. What I mean is if we conpare to when the high street shops were King back say 20 years ago to now,  it probably was a more economical way of living. You only have to look around on the roads today and you see loads of those delivery vans, I should know cause they always tail gate me and break speed limits as they have a dead line for so many deliveries I suppose. 
How can that be environmentally friendly compared to 20, 30 years ago when our roads were free of these vans. Its common sense to me. And thats what they were debating at like 6am in the morning. And no I didnt dream it. 

coachman12

Goodbye Holly !