{"id":1754,"date":"2026-01-05T20:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:04:14","slug":"nhs-multi-drop-nightmare-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/nhs-multi-drop-nightmare-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Glad that Gig is over – Multidrop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve been doing multi-drop work recently. It\u2019s horrible. Between 120 to 200 visits to residential addresses throughout Birmingham (and also a place up North). I have done this stuff before but never in Brum and ideally I\u2019d not like to do that again.

I\u2019ll list just \u2018some\u2019 of the issues I came across…

\ud83d\ude20 Knock door. \u201cSomeone\u2019s at the door, you answer it, no you do it, who is it, etc, etc\u201d now multiply this for the the whole frickin day!

\ud83d\ude20 Folk who just won\u2019t open the door until you phone them and tell them you\u2019re at their front door to deliver x, y, z. \u201cOh it\u2019s you at the door.\u201d I have no idea in what universe people just get random blokes holding kids medicines standing at the door but it\u2019s a thing. I guess.

\ud83d\ude20 Them \u2018Ring\u2019 doorbells. Great idea. When they work and are actually used!

\ud83d\ude20 Folk who live in high rise buildings where the intercom doesn’t work and they never have reception on their phone either. Why bother!

\ud83d\ude20 Dogs, seriously. Control them.\u00a0At one stage I called a customer and told them to meet me at the end of their drive. Their dog was the size of a horse and looked very menacing!

\ud83d\ude20 The job kills your van. Wear and tear is accelerated significantly.

\ud83d\ude20 The rules of the road go out the window as you\u2019re focused on meeting deadlines and getting these deliveries done. Everything else becomes secondary.

\ud83d\ude20 Absolutely no time to eat, drink or pee.

So what effect did multidrop have on me?

\ud83d\ude2d After a weekend of doing it I did not want to see a steering wheel again.

\ud83d\ude2d I lost all creativity and couldn\u2019t think of anything other than making them deliveries.

\ud83d\ude2d I HATED not being able to deliver in case folk aren\u2019t home or in the case of one guy. He padlocked his green gate shut. Then complained he isn\u2019t getting any deliveries \ud83d\ude01

\ud83d\ude2d After if I finished the day I didn\u2019t want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to be left alone somewhere quiet. Extremely irritable and this is where drivers need to check themselves as these frustrations can easily come out on those closest to you. Don’t let that happen. Plenty of worthwhile subjects on the road to let it out on.

\ud83d\ude2d Stress levels and intolerance for stupid drivers went through the roof.

\ud83d\ude2d I started to really not look forward to the weekends.

So why did I feel such a way. Other than the horrific standard of driving from some of the locals I pinned it down to one binary factor.

It was the route optimisation system the NHS supplied to me. More of that on a separate post though.

You know how something is being done wrong, you know it\u2019s done wrong and you are powerless to stop it. Yeah, it\u2019s that draining. Sucks the life out of you. And this is why the whole multidrop gig I was doing sucked. Not the work itself but the tools that we were given to assist us done everything other than assist.

Meh \ud83d\ude36

So, do you need a courier who lost the will to live just after doing a bit of multi-drop? Naaa, I thought you wouldn\u2019t \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve been doing multi-drop work recently. It\u2019s horrible. Between 120 to 200 visits to residential addresses throughout Birmingham (and also a place up North). I have done this stuff before but never in Brum and ideally I\u2019d not like to do that again. I\u2019ll list just \u2018some\u2019 of the issues I came across… \ud83d\ude20 Knock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18,93,21],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-moans","tag-courier","tag-multidrop","tag-sameday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frigate-express.co.uk\/ourblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}