In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Marland
wrote:
They will no be no situation exactly the same but many towns like the
small one near here have streets so narrow that a vehicle delivering
will stop passage of two way traffic with anything wider than a
bicycle so it doesn‘t make much difference if it is a tail lift lorry
or a van. What is the lesser evil , a lorry blocking a road for 15-20
minutes while they wheel cages on and off or a succession of white vans
to deliver the same amount of stuff, each one by the time they park
,alert the shop staff, unload, get the paperwork signed will each take
about the same 15mins. Say three vans that‘s the road partially blocked
for a total of 45 mins instead of 20 .

Round these narrow London residential streets it's supermarket delivery
vans which are the pain. Near always double parked blocking the road. I
suppose this is progress. Wonder what all those people do with the time
they've saved on shopping themselves?

they are working - to pay for the stuf that is delivered. But, deliveries
of groceries is not new - my mother had a weekly grocerly delivery and, as
required, food from the butchers and fishmonger.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England
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