Everyone’s Sharing Their Nightmare Delivery Stories Online Right Now

But don't forget as we face lockdown 2.0, your delivery driver is also your new best friend...

Hermes delivery

by Rhiannon Evans |
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Hermes delivery company is trending on Twitter today - and not in a good way. And also not in a maybe-intended funny way, aka the Marks and Spencer's yumnutway.

The Sun have posted a video online of an Hermes delivery driver throwing parcels into the back of a van.

Wayne Millin from Coney Hill, Gloucester, said: 'I heard some banging, looked out the window and thought, gosh, he's launching them around.

'If you look at the video closely, you can see some of the parcels hit the back of the van and nearly fall back out. It just seemed like he was full of anger.'

A Hermes spokesperson said the man was an agency driver who was 'removed from the business'.

The story has seen Hermes trending on Twitter and got everyone sharing their best jokes, memes and stories about their doomed deliveries.

Everyone has a delivery story, don't they? Taking days off and waiting all day. Wrong addresses. Awkward conversations with neighbours. Bashed boxes. I once had three failed delivery attempts on separate days, only for them to realised the only bit of my address they had was the road name. So... yeah.

It's an easy joke to make - in our increasingly 'gimme yesterday' culture having to wait for something, or have something arrive not exactly how you want it, isn't ideal.

And some of the stories are, obviously hilarious. The parcel on the roof? Lols.

But we should also be careful, at the start of another lockdown, at raging at and mocking our delivery drivers.

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Remember around April last year when we were choosing our national heroes? The men and women who worked over their hours to shuttle our groceries and every whim back and forth at risk to their own health? That was only a few months ago - and might be the case again soon enough.

It's probably also worth thinking about the mass unemployment, the zero-hours contracts - and that 'be kind' mantra we're always going on about.

So yes it it annoying if your parcel is late (especially if you paid for it) and it is indeed funny if your package gets left on your roof. But even if you're going to have a laugh about delivery drivers online, make sure that in the flesh you're as nice as you can be.

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