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Amazon still can’t even figure out how to reliably get human drivers door passcodes into an apartment building, and then into its mail/package locker room.

The map system it uses for for telling drivers how to get around a city to make deliveries is also garbage, can’t account for traffic, punishes people for using faster side routes to get to the same place, tells you to park in areas that either have no parking at all, or where parking there would majorly disrupt traffic, or assumes available street parking will always exist in places and times it almost never does.

I once did an Amazon delivery gig where they booked me in for the time slot, I get to the FC, after waiting an hour they tell half of us: ‘oops we booked too many drivers, so today you all get $200 for showing up and doing nothing, go home now’

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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Update: It is day 126 and Amazon still can’t figure out where my camera is.

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I know where it is. Their delivery driver stole it. (Yes, I just charged back my credit card. Their response was to send me an incredibly smarmy and condescending form email asking why, as if they don’t already know. And they lost the chargeback dispute, obviously.)

So maybe their robots won’t steal your package. They’ll just yeet it into a bush 65536 yards from your house in a random direction instead. On the bright side, you might occasionally get a package that belongs to someone else from the other side of town dropped on your lawn.

To both this and that I say no thanks; I don’t use Amazon anymore.

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Amazon sent my next door neighbour a photograph of my back garden indicating they delivered the package. In the photo you can see my front door with the obviously wrong house number.
  
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  - Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Happens, I’d bet money it was a multi-location stop and they were intending to deliver that neighbor’s package and accidentally grabbed yours. It’s easy to make a mistake here and there when you’re delivering to thousands of houses in a given week.
    
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    echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I just love the fact that he had to open three gates in order to get to my garden. But couldn’t be bothered to check the address.
    
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spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

or assumes available street parking will always exist in places and times it almost never does.

That explains all the amazon vans parked in the middle of the fucking street.

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- sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yep!
  
  Drivers have to visit an absolutely absurd number of locations in a small block of time, so if they attempt to park like a sane member of society, they’ll be fired very quickly.
  
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