Can someone explain this madness to me?!
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lol ok that is taking the Mickey, I was going to suggest that perhaps he has a bunch of nearby deliveries but if he's actually directly passing your location then that is a bit ridiculous
he's pointing out that the path/route chosen by the delivery driver seems to be sub optimal
fair point re: the premium deliveries though I'd suspect that if going past OPs house it would still be optimal for the driver to stop and deliver then
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haha you guys make me smile. I know he is asking about the route taken, but as stated AM deliveries taking priority, have you watched the videos/reports/documents about courier drivers, they are on such tight schedules that they have to go the route made for them or they risk losing money/wages etc. So they are just doing what they are told to do in order to maximise their wages.
I get that it's a PITA if they drove near your place, but if you didn't know the route taken throughout the day then you would be fine with a later delivery, thats all my post was trying to outline.
I get that it's a PITA if they drove near your place, but if you didn't know the route taken throughout the day then you would be fine with a later delivery, thats all my post was trying to outline.
Just his, sure.
What about the two people between 2 and 3? Then the guy between 3 and 4? Then the three on the road leading to delivery 5? It would soon add up.
It probably makes the overall run longer but ensures no time guarantees are missed.
It is rather unlikely that you'd choose say a path connecting say a dozen premium delivery drops and then by complete chance have 6 additional people on that same exact path... but possibly it would be preferable, or you could drive the whole route again.
We're getting to it now. My reason for posting was genuine - my background is in combinatorial heuristics (not moaning about deliveries, but thanks anyway Ace), so in my mind this was just a variation on the Travelling Salesman problem, with the added twist of the inclusion of priority\time critical stops.
I reckon the algorithm SO simplistic that it works on a strict priority basis and doesn't allow for traversal to verticies (houses) on the edge (route) between priority verticies, until all priority stops have been satisfied. The only possible explaination as to why it might work the way it appears, is if the number of priority verticies that must be traversed (or rather the shortest path weight of the route between all critical stops) is at a maximum... i.e., that they are fully loaded on critical deliveries and have no time for cheap skates like me. I just don't believe that to be the most obvious answer.
EDIT: I'll ask Steve, I bet he's hot on Graph Theory.
Anywhoo, nearly beer O'Clock!
I reckon the algorithm SO simplistic that it works on a strict priority basis and doesn't allow for traversal to verticies (houses) on the edge (route) between priority verticies, until all priority stops have been satisfied. The only possible explaination as to why it might work the way it appears, is if the number of priority verticies that must be traversed (or rather the shortest path weight of the route between all critical stops) is at a maximum... i.e., that they are fully loaded on critical deliveries and have no time for cheap skates like me. I just don't believe that to be the most obvious answer.
EDIT: I'll ask Steve, I bet he's hot on Graph Theory.
Anywhoo, nearly beer O'Clock!
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Personally I don't see the problem with ace's post... Direct and to the point.
As others have pointed out a delivery schedule has to consider all the items to be delivered and their respective priorities which may lead to some on the face of it unusual routes/ delivery orders
Because he missed the point. There was no mention of being disgruntled about the service (at least, certainly wasn't my intention), and even if I was - his manner was unnecessarially terse.
Whatevs.
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Because he missed the point. There was no mention of being disgruntled about the service (at least, certainly wasn't my intention), and even if I was - his manner was unnecessarially terse.
Whatevs.
The punctuation on the subject would lead me to the conclusion it annoyed you a little. I mean of course it did, it would annoy anyone that was clearly seeing if their parcel was coming first thing in the morning.
Acemodder was right, you get what you pay for. What's wrong with a terse reply?
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Serves him right for being a Macc lad
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I guess it is based on my opinions I gave in a previous thread about public displays of sex in your thread a few months back. You didn't like my opinion then, thus decided to call me a bell-end in this thread. It's ok with a face like mine I have to be thick skinned
This forum and the banter here is what makes it great.
Used to love getting c.9am deliveries for no extra cost from City Link back in the day because they had pre-9am deliveries to local businesses. Namely a retailer I used to work for where we would get POS sent from head office that had to be put up at the start of trading.
Just because it shows the van in red and your house in blue, on the driver's map it probably has a dozen or so blue pins in equal distances. He can't deliver to them all at the same time.
100%
From a consumer perspective, I want predictability..if the app says it'll arrive between X and Y, I want it to arrive between X and Y. Any earlier and I am not be there or might be in the shower etc.
As others have pointed out the route will be planned to criteria, e.g. guaranteed slots. Computers if tuned properly, in line with intelligent systems (e.g. traffic, conditions).. will 9/10 always win!