Next Home Delivery

simonts

Does anyone know how this is handled? Whenever I get stuff delivered it seems to be an individual rather than a company dealing with the deliveries.

Dosent seem like the worst way to earn a few extra quid on a saturday etc

geordie_joe

simonts wrote: »

Does anyone know how this is handled? Whenever I get stuff delivered it seems to be an individual rather than a company dealing with the deliveries.

Dosent seem like the worst way to earn a few extra quid on a saturday etc

This might help

http://careers.next.co.uk/distribution/index.asp?p=1

Several other compains also use individuals. Premier Man for one and probably some of the mail order catalog's will do, if they still exist?

angel81uk

My mum did it a few years ago. She had a card given to her with her order saying they were looking for people to join them. To be completely honest I've never seen her so stressed! She did it for 2 weeks and then had enough.

It wasn't quiet as straightforward as just doing a few deliveries on a saturday though, every 2 days a huge truck would turn up full of parcels which they would unload into our garage, when I say it was full of parcels I mean it filled our large double garage! They then hand over a whole stack of paperwork which has the addresses and the deliver instructions for each parcel. You then spend the next 2 days running round like a blue ar*ed fly trying to work out your delivery route, filling your car with parcels and trying to deliver them to people. Around 70% of people weren't home to take delivery and the majority of them didn't have "safe places" to leave a parcel (should only leave in a safe place marked on the paperwork) which meant she had to leave a card and try again the next day. Of course the next day they still wouldn't be in but it meant she had to drive the route all over again whilst at the same time trying to deliver the that days parcels. In the end my dad had to help her out by doing deliveries in his car at the same time. Far too much work for the 20p a parcel she got paid!

That was a couple of years ago now though so they might have improved things somewhat. If you really want to give it a go the main company I believe is parcelnet, through them she had to do deliveries for the majority of the big home shopping catalogues, Next, littlewoods etc

danijenner

My last Next delivery got left in the fr*gging wheelie bin! Was not happy!

geordie_joe

danijenner wrote: »

My last Next delivery got left in the fr*gging wheelie bin! Was not happy!

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Yes but at least you got it.

I used to live in a small block of flats that was sub-divided into 4 separated blocks with 4 separate entrances. An individual that was delivering for another company couldn't find the door to my block, as it was round the back of the building, so he/she left it outside the door for another block.

After an investigation the excuse I got was "The courier couldn't find the door marked flats 1 - 6, so they left the parcel outside a door marked flats 12-24"

gyinnit

danijenner wrote: »

My last Next delivery got left in the fr*gging wheelie bin! Was not happy!

That's happened to me a few times, even though I call Next each time to complain! One time I came home from working away for a few days, and found a card saying it had been left on the back door. I went to the back door and it was hanging off the door handle outside.......in the pouring rain! No idea how many days it had been left there!

I used to get a Parcelforce courier delivering my parcels, and they used to move my wheelie bin to the front of the garage and put my parcel behind it (my garage faces the street). Who needs to break into your house when deliveries are left all over the place!

Rochelle

I worked for next delivering their parcels some years ago and it was pure stress for hardly any money,i gave it up after 3 weeks as the pay was so bad. The delivery turns up at your home around 6 am and gives u a massive bag of parcels and it is pure hell trying to put the goods in order for delivery.
It would not be something i would ever consider again lol