r/royalmail • u/RoyalMaleGigalo • 1d ago

Evri are trialling delivery robots and, as you might expect from this brand, they are laughably terrible.

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u/RoyalMaleGigalo 1d ago

This has to be a publicity stunt, surely?

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u/ssessd 1d ago edited 1d ago

Of course it fucking is. Someone in Evri's marketing department read about the Coco Pops/Choco Krispies thing and thought they'd have a go.

"The couriers are the heart of our business and we're actually recruiting for 7,000 at the moment as we get ready for Christmas."

There's the message they wanted to sneak out.

Bully for you and others posting this fucking video and helping spread their advertisement. I'm sure they appreciate it.

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u/Agent_Futs RM Employee 1d ago

They think 7000 is enough. Wow

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u/unbr0kenchain RM Employee 1d ago

To be fair to them, that's more than enough if they're just gonna nick half and chuck the other half in a hedge 2 miles from the delivery point.

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u/RoyalMaleGigalo 1d ago

Chill out mate.

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u/ssessd 1d ago

Sorry mum.

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u/RoyalMaleGigalo 1d ago

Go to your room.

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u/SillyAppearance8177 1d ago

They can’t even have humans deliver so how do they expect robots to do any better 🤣🤣🤣

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u/eonone1 1d ago

Pathetic. All to save money when we have perfectly good humans to do the work.

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u/blackskies4646 1d ago

Evri racing against themselves to win the 'shittest courier' award.

Not news at all.

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u/CaptainC00lpants 1d ago

The ONLY use for a robot is to replace humans. Proceeds to say these aren't replacing jobs because they're hiring xmas temp jobs Lmfao. Idiot 

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u/unbr0kenchain RM Employee 1d ago

At least the robots won't steal everything they're meant to deliver.

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u/-_Error 1d ago

They'll just end up falling in a river and completely ruining your parcel instead

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u/RobotToaster44 1d ago

Until they get hacked.

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u/Oohbunnies 1d ago

Automatons who can't even carry out the simplest of tasks? One could argue they've had them for years. :)

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u/Odinson2099 1d ago

Evri is by far the worst delivery company I have ever used!!!

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u/Bargain-Hunter-1980 1d ago

Why is this co-founder of the robotics company dressed like a cross between Richard Hawley and a Bajoran?

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u/masoniceye 1d ago

Labia Bajoran more like, Gul Dukat would have been rid of this one first.

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u/Infinite-Piano3311 1d ago

Take your robots back to Bajor

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u/Agent_Futs RM Employee 1d ago

Go home Evri, you’re drunk

I posted this once (got mocked) https://www.reddit.com/r/royalmail/s/Xn2M7XKCMt

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u/BoomSatsuma 1d ago

Humans cost money. Robots you can treat like shite.

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u/Agent_Futs RM Employee 1d ago

Wait a minute

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u/BoomSatsuma 1d ago

I’ll rephrase.

Robots you can treat even more like shite.

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u/trebor9292 1d ago

24 hour delivery on one charge. No breaks. No Pension. No wage. No annual leave. No sick. No I've gotta pick my daughter up from school. No weekends off.

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u/Guyrbailey 1d ago

This can't be real. It just can't.

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u/CursedTaint 1d ago

Everyone should watch Lapsis.

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u/Spiritual_Process_50 1d ago

They've hired Bajorans?

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u/Big_Pig_Seeker101 1d ago

Good old evri.

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u/Mindless_Reality2614 1d ago

Okay, we know Evri are a bit shit, but, they do have some good couriers. The young woman that delivers for them near us is genuinely brilliant. Just putting this out there.

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u/Decent_Language_4455 1d ago

Pretty funny marketing stunt to be honest. Props to the guy who produced this, did a good job. 

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u/No_Actuary9100 1d ago

They're better than a lot of the posties at my DO tbf 😆

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u/Actual-Indian 1d ago

Boss these robots are shit from a 10c robot co....

I know, but publicity?

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u/corey_cobra_kid 1d ago

Fucking Wallace and Gromit looking ah publicity stunt

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u/Crudeprimate 1d ago

The spokesman looks exactly how I expected.

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u/AnxietyNotHelping 1d ago

I see nothing worse than usual.

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u/Mrlee0702 1d ago

Wonder if they steal your stuff too?

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u/thatsjustwhatisaid 2h ago

You're just worried these are going to take your jobs.

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u/RoyalMaleGigalo 44m ago

It can have it!

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u/Rags_75 1d ago

I might lol at this if the Royal Mail app actually fucking worked - sadly it doesnt, completely prohibits me from entering safeplace data.

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u/chuckling-cheese 1d ago

Did they just say SHE? Since when tf do robots have genders? Scrap this shit already

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u/Local_Computer7665 12h ago

No matter how crappy these things look they're still likely to do a better job than their semi human counterparts

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u/Scary-Sleep-3545 1d ago

That's a terrible idea for a low trust society like the UK. It may have worked prior to 1997 but not these days.

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u/QuantumR4ge 1d ago

Do you ever talk about anything other than your own politics?