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Evri-thing, Evri-where, All Over the Place

You have to wonder why Hermes went through the hassle of rebranding themselves to Evri, then you get a parcel delivered by them. Only a year ago in a desperate, and cynical, attempt to shed their woeful reputation as the worst parcel delivery company in the UK Hermes rebranded themselves as Evri. On the 14 th March 2022 they rolled out their corporate PR machine and made promises . "The new brand will also see a significant investment in its customer service as part of its commitment to ensuring that its customer service remains responsive, knowledgeable and helpful. This will include Evri opening a fully UK-based customer service team and adding 200 experts who will be based in local depots, closer to where potential issues are. It will also be upgrading its chatbot and releasing more phone lines for those who prefer to speak directly to someone." So was it a surprise when I got an e-mail about a parcel I was expecting? Well, most other couriers don't do this an

Warhop top-to-tail

A good article this time, which entails a slightly different approach to editing than that taken for stub and start class articles. Less than 0.5% of articles are rated as Good or above on Wikipedia. As there is much more content than a random page usually throws up I may or may not edit the whole article. If I choose not to, I will often take the lead or last section and edit that before moving on (or sometimes a section at random if it looks interesting). Also, rather than making all the edits in one or two sessions, I will try to break down the edits so that reasoning can be given for each group and also so that another editor can revert something that they don't like (or is wrong) without having to trash all of the edits. Often if you are going to get feedback from another editor articles like this will be where it happens, so it is reasonable to be on your best (editing) behaviour. With all that in mind let's get to Jack Warhop's article . Warhop was an early 20 th