As a courier its a bit disheartening at this point.
Getting drops at 111 example lane, then 15 drops later have one at 121 example lane, 5 doors down, but in that time i've done 3 miles driving.
Every time i try and prevent going back and forth, there will always be a drop that's literally a 20 second walk round the corner but because the postcodes arent neighbouring letters that will now be 15 drops further down.
This can make a "half day" route of 4.5 hours turn to 6, so in a way i understand why people arent doing their deliveries, and just say "cannot deliver" to the rest of the drops and complete them the next day or return them to depot.
That's without mentioning parcel banding. You can have an average size box which you'd think classes as a standard rate class as small packet and get you half of what you'd expect for delivering it. But a band change dispute is awkward as anything, and itll happen for 20-30 per round you do, and will cost you more in time than you will get back.
All that to be told your average rate will be for example 95p per parcel (sunday rate), then doing 60 parcels for £25. This has happened to me and as such im in a dispute about it.
Evri makes on average £2.50 a parcel while the couriers make as little as 40p, the standard minimum banding should really be between 85p and 1.60. Or just scrap banding altogether and make it a simple £1 a parcel.