Yeah, that used to be a thing. People had accounts with stores and delivery vans weren't just for appliances. The sixties fucked a lotta good things up.
Hell, I remember when you could buy a bit of space on a boxcar, and ship stuff on a train. Can't do that any more, unless you want to hire an entire container, which ain't cheap.
Greyhound became a good go-to for that, but now we don't have them any more, either.
People should work in teams, including delivery people.
Christ, I worked in Toronto back in the mid-1980s at a (now defunct) pizza chain store (I was hired for opening day) and our only driver got his car stolen as he left it running while delivering. The cops found it two hours later, on the other end of the city. (I had to run nearby orders on foot. I was the fucking cook. We were all Day 1 hires, the place had only been open a couple of weeks, this was the height of the take-out/delivery only craze.)
When 7-11 was new (early 80s), the overnight clerks in my home city used to work alone. Until a girl clerk got raped, beaten, and run over repeatedly by some scumbag from Detroit. Then they passed a bylaw forcing night clerks to never work alone.
Yeah, that used to be a thing. People had accounts with stores and delivery vans weren't just for appliances. The sixties fucked a lotta good things up.
Hell, I remember when you could buy a bit of space on a boxcar, and ship stuff on a train. Can't do that any more, unless you want to hire an entire container, which ain't cheap.
Greyhound became a good go-to for that, but now we don't have them any more, either.
People should work in teams, including delivery people.
Christ, I worked in Toronto back in the mid-1980s at a (now defunct) pizza chain store (I was hired for opening day) and our only driver got his car stolen as he left it running while delivering. The cops found it two hours later, on the other end of the city. (I had to run nearby orders on foot. I was the fucking cook. We were all Day 1 hires, the place had only been open a couple of weeks, this was the height of the take-out/delivery only craze.)
When 7-11 was new (early 80s), the overnight clerks in my home city used to work alone. Until a girl clerk got raped, beaten, and run over repeatedly by some scumbag from Detroit. Then they passed a bylaw forcing night clerks to never work alone.
“Looks like we’re back in business!”
-Jim Hardie
certain neighborhoods will be no go zones like for pizza delivery