We spend more online than any other country but the people who deliver the parcels struggle on low pay and have little job security. Is it time consumers faced up to the true cost of ‘free’ delivery?
Jane Holder’s doorstep is familiar territory for Totnes’s parcel couriers. Dozens of packets come and go as she trades an extraordinary array of kitsch vintage items over the internet from her Devon home.
Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”. For £1, there’s a pair of brightly coloured plastic hand-grenade horns that “make a horrible noise”. As useless ephemera goes, it is hard to beat.
May 30, 2017 at 10:09AM
from Robert Booth
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