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Amazon uses fake packages to catch delivery drivers who are stealing, according to sources with knowledge of the practice.
The company plants the packages — internally referred to as "dummy" packages — in the trucks of drivers at random. The dummy packages have fake labels and are often empty.
[...] During deliveries, drivers scan the labels of every package they deliver. When they scan a fake label on a dummy package, an error message will pop up.
When this happens, drivers might call their supervisors to address the problem, or keep the package in their truck and return it to an Amazon warehouse at the end of their shift.
Drivers, in theory, could also choose to steal the package. The error message means the package isn't detected in Amazon's system. As a result, it could go unnoticed if the package were to go missing.
"If you bring the package back, you are innocent. If you don't, you're a thug," said Sid Shah, a former manager for DeliverOL, a courier company that delivers packages for Amazon.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sets-traps-for-drivers-2018-9
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @04:51PM (2 children)
You wouldn't remember having messed it up. If you remember it, you'd probably not have made the mistake. I used to manage a cash drawer at a previous job and it's easy to accidentally slip somebody the wrong change if you're not careful about it. Sure, it could be that the till got messed up during those 5 minutes, which is why they can't make you pay for any shortages during that time. But, most likely you did make a mistake at some point.
I rarely made mistakes, I think over the course of the time I was doing it, I was off by maybe $10 total, and I didn't have a cash register tallying up the totals and it was cash only.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @08:44PM (1 child)
Off by 10 in total delta (sum(abs(delta))) or off by 10 in total (sum(deltas))?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @05:00AM
It's total, and I don't think I was ever off by more than $3 on any given day. The point though is that, you're not going to know where the mistake was made, if you did, then you probably wouldn't have made the mistake in the first place.