It is the first Friday in December and Hermes workers are throwing parcels across a warehouse to a soundtrack of Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody. As the chorus begins — So here it is, Merry Christmas — a depot worker hurls an Asos package against a wall, narrowly missing a courier’s head; it falls to the floor. SponsoredThe music is punctuated with the clattering sounds of packages hitting crates, walls and the ground as they are thrown into piles. As the song ends a brown box is flipped towards me, landing damaged and open by my feet. Hermes is one of the leading courier companies in the country and delivers hundreds of millions of parcels each year for retailers including John Lewis, Next, Marks &

Source: The Times December 17, 2021 05:48 UTC