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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @07:31PM (4 children)
Don't use Amazon (reasons).
I've come to like ordering online from Walmart with free ship-to-store (conveniently, less than a mile away). Walk in the door, the online pickup is right in front. Scan the bar code from the email and someone walks out of the storage room with my box in a minute or two (most of the time). They have a box cutter, we open the package on the spot and I either thank them and walk out with my purchase, or return on the spot for credit (and then thank them).
No, I'm not a walmart employee...and I used to hate them. But now that they've mostly "won" over our local stores I've given in.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Friday September 21 2018, @07:54PM (2 children)
Wal-Mart isn't glitch free either, of course. Last time we got a package that way, the Wal-Mart employee refused to let me have our package. Said my name was not on their list. She obviously didn't want to check any further, was not bothered by or seemingly cognizant of the question of how could I even know about the package unless we ordered it, and would have sent me on my way without. I demanded to speak to a manager. Very quickly the manager showed her that my name was in fact on their list, on the next line down. She didn't apologize or anything just said "oh".
(Score: 3, Informative) by Alfred on Friday September 21 2018, @08:32PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @02:36AM
I think it requires projectiles through two lobes of your brain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @03:31AM
Suggesting that the solution to the problem of your purchasing dollars supporting a vicious, serf-abusing, public-teat sucking corporation like Amazon is buying crap from Walmart is Olympic grade cognitive dissonance.