A bit misleading to say this house sold for £300,000 a mere decade ago. What actually happened is someone bought half the property in 2014 for £375,454 and then picked up the other half for £300k the following year and joined the two leaseholds into a single freehold. They’re large houses (even before you put up an enormous extension) and a lot of them are split into two flats. London prices are crazy, but not quite that crazy.
Evri hounded my business to try and lure us out of our Royal Mail contract. When I finally typed back: “our customers would literally desert us if we moved to Evri” there was no reply lol
Totally! But while £5m is a lot, that area does have more million(s)-pound properties than Cricklewood, so it’s not quite as outrageous as that resident thinks… perhaps they don’t compulsively check rightmove like I do 🥲
Look I’d call it Kilburn, the estate agent calls it Mapesbury, the resident on the street described it to us as Cricklewood. Such is the rich variation on how Londoners view which area they belong to.
I hope the driver who smashed into my friend this year got a pay cut. She was driving to her job as an emergency room doctor on New Year's Day. He ran a red light and smashed into her. Broke her pelvis in four places and she was off work for half the year. He still hasn't been brought to justice.
That sounds truly awful and while the driver should see some sort of repercussion, I think the company should bear some of it too. The reason they run red lights and rush around like crazy is because of the per package rate that Evri pay. If the delivery drivers were paid fairly they wouldn't need to rush like this and we'd all live on safer roads and have our packages delivered to us normally. Hope you friend makes a full recovery!
This is precisely it and why the model works so well for Evri - it's everyone else's problem while their highly leveraged sponsors reap all the income. A bit like blaming their customers for mislabeling parcel sizes. That should be dealt with at an Evri processing level not at the last mile by the "self employed" employed driver. You could almost say they don't care and it's just volume for them. As long as they get that contract/ income... My biggest bug bear is this again demonstrates the lie of consumer choice. I'd pay more for a "better" courier but I more often than not have no idea when I make an online the contracted courier used. So again Evri get off scott free because my consumer power is eroded and I can't choose not to use them....
Also I think there is a real problem with the law. If he'd attacked her with a baseball bat and broken her pelvis in four places he'd be in prison. But because the weapon was a car, the law doesn't seem to care.
A bit misleading to say this house sold for £300,000 a mere decade ago. What actually happened is someone bought half the property in 2014 for £375,454 and then picked up the other half for £300k the following year and joined the two leaseholds into a single freehold. They’re large houses (even before you put up an enormous extension) and a lot of them are split into two flats. London prices are crazy, but not quite that crazy.
Evri hounded my business to try and lure us out of our Royal Mail contract. When I finally typed back: “our customers would literally desert us if we moved to Evri” there was no reply lol
Totally! But while £5m is a lot, that area does have more million(s)-pound properties than Cricklewood, so it’s not quite as outrageous as that resident thinks… perhaps they don’t compulsively check rightmove like I do 🥲
It’s not Cricklewood, it’s Kilburn
Look I’d call it Kilburn, the estate agent calls it Mapesbury, the resident on the street described it to us as Cricklewood. Such is the rich variation on how Londoners view which area they belong to.
Forget the Omaze house. I want to live next door with the Addams Family.
I hope the driver who smashed into my friend this year got a pay cut. She was driving to her job as an emergency room doctor on New Year's Day. He ran a red light and smashed into her. Broke her pelvis in four places and she was off work for half the year. He still hasn't been brought to justice.
That sounds truly awful and while the driver should see some sort of repercussion, I think the company should bear some of it too. The reason they run red lights and rush around like crazy is because of the per package rate that Evri pay. If the delivery drivers were paid fairly they wouldn't need to rush like this and we'd all live on safer roads and have our packages delivered to us normally. Hope you friend makes a full recovery!
This is precisely it and why the model works so well for Evri - it's everyone else's problem while their highly leveraged sponsors reap all the income. A bit like blaming their customers for mislabeling parcel sizes. That should be dealt with at an Evri processing level not at the last mile by the "self employed" employed driver. You could almost say they don't care and it's just volume for them. As long as they get that contract/ income... My biggest bug bear is this again demonstrates the lie of consumer choice. I'd pay more for a "better" courier but I more often than not have no idea when I make an online the contracted courier used. So again Evri get off scott free because my consumer power is eroded and I can't choose not to use them....
Also I think there is a real problem with the law. If he'd attacked her with a baseball bat and broken her pelvis in four places he'd be in prison. But because the weapon was a car, the law doesn't seem to care.