Amazon Delivery Drivers

bainbrig | 10:36 Fri 02nd Feb 2018 | Jobs & Education

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I’ve never had a card through the door saying Amazon have tried to deliver but I was out.

Do they have to keep coming back till you’re at home?

BillB

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bednobs

perhaps they have never delivered when you are out? You can set preferences in your account for what to do if you are out when they deliver.
Not that any of that answrs your question, sorry!

bainbrig

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Well, it must be 15 years since I’ve been using them, so I must have been out once or twice!

It was prompted by an email about another delivery firm, DPD, saying that I was number 66 on their list and he’d be coming at 1142am - which works out at about 20 drops an hour! Almost impossible in suburban London.

sunny-dave

DPD's count is of 'deliveries' not 'addresses' - there could be 20 packages for the same address.

Amazon tend to leave with neighbours if possible or return the next day if not - they leave me a card in either case.

bainbrig

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Well that’s good, and there’s me thinking these drivers were over-worked...

bainbrig

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Fancy a cushy number?

DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies from diabetes

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/05/courier-who-was-fined-for-day-off-to-see-doctor-dies-from-diabetes

MargoTester

^ just discussed on Jeremy Vine with the drivers wife. It's dreadful the way they treat drivers

bainbrig

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I think the only solution for all these delivery drivers is to organise, join a union, and demand proper working conditions.

ummmm

My packages are always left with neighbours and I often take them in for them.

Jackdaw33

Surely arranging cover for someone who is sick should be the responsibility of the employer, not the employee. Fining them under these circumstances is scandalous. I'm surprised it's even legal.

bainbrig

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Have a look at the article in the link. They're not employees; like the Uber drivers, they're 'allegedly' self-employed contractors!

Absolute rubbish of course, just a ploy to excuse the employers from providing proper employee facilities.