UPDATE: THIS HAS BECOME FAR BIGGER THAN THE PETITION I STARTED IN 2025

When I started this petition in May 2025, I was one Evri courier trying to fight what I believed was completely unacceptable treatment after years of service.

I never imagined where it would lead.

After the petition gained attention, Change.org put me in contact with the media. A journalist contacted Evri’s press team about my case. My work was subsequently restored, and Evri later contacted me asking whether I could update or remove the petition.

I did not remove it, because I said at the time that the underlying problems had not been resolved.

Looking back now, I am very glad I didn’t.

Because what has happened since has turned this from a petition about one round and one courier into a large evidence-led legal case covering years of the working relationship between Hermes/Evri and its couriers.

We now have thousands of pages and records being organised, including Evri/Hermes emails, payment records, invoices, manifests, app records, management communications, photographs, recorded conversations, driver messages and evidence from other couriers.

One of the most important issues now being examined is whether I was genuinely self-employed in law, or whether the reality of the relationship means I should have been treated as a worker.

For years Evri/Hermes allocated my work through regular rounds, monitored performance, audited deliveries, controlled service standards and used systems that could affect payments and work allocation. Evri later formally recognised rounds 900305 and 901571 as my regular rounds. 

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And then there is my depot.

For around five years I personally funded a unit which was being used as part of the Hermes/Evri operation.

Parcels and pallets were delivered there regularly. I received electronic job manifests. We have messages going back years involving Hermes management discussing pallets and manifests, followed by hundreds of messages from two separate drivers who regularly delivered to that unit.

Those driver-message records alone span years.

When the DSAR arrives, I am expecting electronic records and manifests which may allow us to reconstruct the operation day by day and show just how regularly Evri work was being routed through the unit.

That could become extremely important evidence when the true working relationship is assessed.

The payment evidence has also become much stronger.

This is no longer simply me saying my pay was wrong. The evidence bundle now contains Evri-side records acknowledging an incorrect rate had been paid in error and that corrective payments were required. Evri_Legal_Evidence_Bundle_v59_COMPLETE_FINE_TOOTH_2.docx We have also recovered older evidence of repeated payment problems and system issues that now require proper forensic examination.

Then came 2026.

Evri wanted additional LN7/Caistor territory added to my existing Light & Large work. I was already travelling roughly 120–150 miles a day. I objected to the additional mileage and time.

A recorded management conversation then told me, in substance, that if I did not take the additional work, the whole round could be moved.

My main round — around 90% of my courier income — was subsequently transferred away.

And the evidence did not stop there.

Other couriers have since supplied messages, emails, photographs and first-hand accounts concerning pay, workload, heavy parcels, working conditions and the way the operation is managed.

The personal-injury side is also now being dealt with separately.

We have evidence of exceptionally heavy parcels, including Team Lift and mechanical-lift warnings, and a company-system record where a parcel was submitted at 47kg and later recorded by Evri as “Weight Out Of Limits.” 

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I am now waiting for a new ultrasound so doctors can compare the current hernia with the earlier medical evidence and assess whether the years of heavy manual handling caused or aggravated the condition.

At the same time:

ACAS Early Conciliation has been started.
A formal DSAR is underway.
Solicitors have been approached on the employment and injury sides.
My union/legal routes are being pursued.
Evidence from other couriers continues to come in.

And we are now building a formal legal evidence bundle designed so that a solicitor or barrister can assess the whole picture properly.

I want to be responsible about what I say publicly.

No court has yet decided that I was legally a worker. No court has decided liability for the injury or the financial losses.

But something has changed dramatically since I started this petition.

This is no longer simply:

“Richard says Evri treated him badly.”

There is now a substantial documentary record stretching back years which can be tested against Evri’s own systems, communications and internal records.

And when the DSAR arrives, we may finally get to see what was being said and decided internally while all of this was happening.

I started this petition because I felt one courier standing alone had almost no power against a company the size of Evri.

Today, I no longer feel like I am standing alone.

The evidence is growing.
Other people are speaking up.
The legal questions are getting bigger.
And I intend to see this through properly.

Thank you to every person who has signed, shared this petition or trusted me with evidence.

This story is a long way from finished.

email any evidence to: richcall1985@gmail.com and I will have your stories heard