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Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing

posted by chromas on Friday September 21 2018, @03:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the ♪I've-been-caught-stealing-once-when-I-was-5♪ dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Alfred on Friday September 21 2018, @08:32PM (1 child)

    by Alfred (4006) on Friday September 21 2018, @08:32PM (#738345) Journal
    This gives me hope, no, really. If I lose limbs or get Alzheimer's or a projectile through a lobe of my brain I can always get a job at Wal-mart (or McDs)
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @02:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @02:36AM (#738451)

    I think it requires projectiles through two lobes of your brain.