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Very dependent on traffic and city, and I don't know what local conditions are like. In Bangalore, for example, making 2 deliveries in a radius of 4 km in an hour will be an achievement and 1 is likely to be the norm. So when the article says 4 deliveries, I have no context without googling for traffic conditions in London or Bermingham or whatever.

Similarly for wage, I don't know what the national minimum wage is in the UK or how it's defined. It's not like they're cutting a whole lot of print by adding a /hr to those numbers.

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As a general rule I would suspect that making four deliveries per hour in a settlement of any size is difficult, because the size of the delivery pitch is going to vary with demand.

National minimum wage in the UK is not enough to remotely live on, most places that have an established deliveroo market.

You're trying too hard to find issues.

This is an article on British events on a British website. Those "4 deliveries" did make it obvious they meant minimum wage "per hour" (and it's implied that's it's not easy), even without British context. [traffic, radius only matter wrt. making it hard or easier, but again in context it is implied that 4 deliveries an hour are not easy]

But, anyway, this is all details. The big picture is that food delivery is very low productivity so it is very hard to earn much.

> You're trying too hard to find issues.

No. It's what I felt as I first read the article.

> This is an article on British events on a British website.

Of course. But it was posted on HN with an international audience. Perhaps BBC needs to geofence and make their articles unavailable globally.

> Those "4 deliveries" did make it obvious

No, it did not, and I explained why. 8 deliveries a day would be hard in Bangalore in a 4 km radius. Besides, it is still unclear what the delivery radius is in the article.

“Perhaps BBC needs to geofence and make their articles unavailable globally.“

I live in the US and had no problem following along with the article. Why should everyone else be denied access to the BBC because of your reading comprehension issues? Perhaps, in the future you should just ignore HN posts based on BBC articles.

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