Meal-Delivery Driving, Where the Fuel Bill Falls on the Volunteer
Fuel costs are putting off people applying to drive for meal delivery, the BBC reports. Maureen Bougeard says some prospective volunteers simply stop responding once they learn what the expenses amount to. The friction appears to sit less in the task than in the out-of-pocket gap between wanting to do it and being able to absorb the cost of doing it.
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If the job costs the volunteer money to perform, then recruitment is quietly a means test. Reimbursement becomes a staffing tool as much as a budget line.
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Reimbursing fuel could fix the applications and leave the harder problem untouched: the routes still need someone willing to spend the hours, and that is a different constraint from the cost of petrol.