The route decides when you finish, not the schedule
Delivery work starts at a known time and ends when the route is done. In November that is one thing and in December it is another. Everyone at home is planning around a finish time that was never a commitment.
The schedules this actually has to cope with
Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.
Fixed start, variable finish
Out at a set time, back when the stops are done — which volume decides, not the roster.
Peak season
Six-day weeks and long days from November, bearing no resemblance to the rest of the year.
Route changes
A different route is a different finish time and often a different part of the city.
Split and flex blocks
Gig-style blocks claimed in advance, which fragment a day rather than filling it.
What it sounds like at home
- “I say I will be home by six and it is eight three days a week.”
- “Peak season eats December and my family plan as though it has not.”
- “Blocks get claimed at short notice and change the day.”
- “Nobody at home knows whether to wait for dinner.”
- “My days off in peak are not the ones anyone expects.”
Where Freeish fits
Put in a realistic finish rather than the scheduled one, so nobody waits on a time that was never going to happen.
Peak-season weeks import in one go instead of being explained.
Claimed blocks appear the moment you add them.
Everyone at home sees the week without asking about it.
One week, start to finish
Femi, parcel delivery
- Femi puts the week in with realistic finish times rather than the rostered ones.
- His partner stops holding dinner until eight.
- Peak season starts and the six-day weeks go in at once.
- A long route on the Tuesday gets extended by an hour from the van.
- The family plan Christmas around days that are genuinely off.
Questions delivery drivers ask
Should I put the scheduled finish or the real one?
Can I add a block I just claimed?
Does my employer see this?
Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.
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