Evri

What is Evri? A question asked by all customers of the juggernaut delivery empire formally know as Hermes. After prompting the site manager at my local Evri depot during my “interview” I learnt that Hermes changed their name to Evri after years and years of poor customer service and an even worse company reputation. Nonetheless, when I came across the YouTube video titled ‘How much I earned as an Evri driver (self employed)’ I was instantly intrigued. The Side Hustle was on.

The best way to highlight this Stella review of Evri is in Pro and Con format. So let’s break it down;

Pros

• Insurance is paid for each day you work for £1.15
• Work days normally last 3 hours
• Essentially no manager
• Only work when you want to
• Deliver local
• You can collect your parcels at 10am and choose when you want to deliver them

Cons

• Paid per parcel (can only fit so many in your car)
• Full time employees are prioritised
• Petrol not paid for
• Pays monthly

It’s important to remember you use your own car to complete the deliveries and of course driving a car filled with parcels will use petrol. It was something I was initially worried about, however I recorded my mileage on my departure and then on my return. 19 miles. 19! . 15 of which was the Actual delivering, the remaining the journey to and from the depot. I was over the moon. The price of petrol when I did this work was about 10p more expensive per litre than now however. On average I received about 60 parcels each time I worked, some of which were collections. This was sometimes a tight squeeze getting them all in but manageable.

Now the most important thing about this post. The pay. How much can you make as a part time self employed Evri driver? Well, I worked 4 shifts for Evri over a month period , working an average of 3 hours ( loading the car and delivering). Below Is the payslip I received(only 3 of the shifts are documented on this payslip)

I received an introductory bonus of £25, so once you take that off you can see £104 over 3 shifts. With an average of 3 hours work a day, this works out at £11.55 an hour. Obviously this is subject to change depending on many factors. The picture below details the pay scales of the parcels.

Conclusion

Working for Evri was easy, albeit stressful having to deal with 50-60 deliveries in a short space of time. I don’t want to drag this conclusion out, so, I’m going to get straight to the point. I’m giving Evri a 9/10 Certified Side Hustle approval rating. As side hustles go, it was almost perfect. The major downside being restrictions on when you can work however as a side hustle this wouldn’t really affect people who just want to pick up a couple shifts a week. My Experience was positive and quite frankly very easy, I grabbed a coffee and put my podcast in and it was over before I knew it. If you have a hatchback and some spare time head down to your local Evri depot and pick up some shifts.