Parcel delivery company City Link goes into administration

[joebloggs]

Not a good Xmas for some

Parcel delivery company City Link has gone into administration.

Read more here .....

http://metro.co.uk/2014/12/25/parcel...ation-4999555/

[Slip]

Sorry for the workers, but if my recent run-in with them is anything to go by, then I'm not really surprised..

I have had the pleasure of many courier companies over the years, but my experience with them earlier this week is the worst ever from a company.

[Dedworth]

Phew - used them to send 9 cartons a few weeks back

[joebloggs]

To be honest, I didn't even know they were still going; I thought they had merged with another company, as I've not seen any of their vans for years

[grahamw48]

Cut-throat businesses employing stressed-out people 'forced' to drive dangerously on peanut pay, clogging up our roads and town centres with white vans parked on the pavements and street corners.

Bring back local shops I say.

[stevewool]

Cut throat business out there with the parcels companies

[stevewool]

SNAP Graham

[grahamw48]

True innit !

[Ako Si Jamie]

Cut-throat businesses employing stressed-out people 'forced' to drive dangerously on peanut pay

In a nutshell.

[stevewool]

Business-post driver comes to our place. Self-employed, he does between 130 to 170 deliveries a day.

[les_taxi]

It is horrible to lose your job at any time but, at this time of year, it's cruel. Unfortunately looks like the company was run badly and the management will probably be to blame.

It's a fast-growing market - so they must have made a right 'pig's ear' of it.

[grahamw48]

The warehouse/distribution staff are likely to be minimum wage E. Europeans etc anyway.

[Ako Si Jamie]

Business-post driver comes to our place. Self-employed, he does between 130 to 170 delivers a day.

I used to do those kind of numbers in my previous job when it cost £35 for diesel per week and each delivery earned me over a £1.

Very hard work, but you didn't mind when £150 on average could be made each day. Double drop rate on a Sunday too. Happy days. This was over a decade ago too.

[London_Manila]

Very much like the local minicabs around my part of London
They all try to undercut each other so the pay ends up being peanuts = Eastern Europeans