Source: https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/117201000187721159
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Neil Brown @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
# Email from AliExpress:
Your parcel has moved two centimetres to the right. We will update you as soon as it moves.
# Another email from AliExpress:
It has moved! Your parcel has moved another two centimetres to the right.
# Email from UK parcel delivery company:
We have your parcel. It is probably somewhere in the UK, between arrival and departure. At some point, we will chuck it in your general direction. Your driver’s name will be Ethan.
Sep 02, 2026, 10:35 AM
Evri, they used to be called Hermes but there was so incompetent and crooked that businesses stopped wanting to work with them because they will have to pay out for all of the lost packages. So they rebranded hooping no one would notice. The are just as bad and lazy and incompetent and thieving as they were before, except now they do it in a van with the most ugly logo in the history of all corporate design.
The only reason they have any business at all is because they subcontract out for other delivery companies who don’t have enough drivers on any particular day. No one intentionally uses them.