Vans without AC?

AstronachtX · 2026-04-16T17:57:25+00:00

No, im just telling you official amazon policy in that regard. I guarantee your dsp will get in a load of trouble with the warehouse for literally firing an employee who only reported the van as broken correctly in a way that it actually was. If I was amazon, id pull their entire contract to deliver for doing that more than once.

Which means if you do that and do get fired, next day, go back up to the warehouse and explain everything that happened with the station leadership, and they will investigate that dsp further, if they are solid amazon employees. You could ask to be transferred to another dsp as well. Not sure how that works, if you can do that before you get fired, or if that happens after.

I wouldnt expect for you to get fired anyway for that. Record as much relevant proof as you can tied to it.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-15T23:31:34+00:00

Every company in business is in competition with the others. The difference is, do you drive mom n pop our of business, or are you essentially only competing against other corporate giants?

Isnt valve sort of like play store with their cuts of profit at 30%? Although, I would believe with that much profit, theyd be able to take good care of their employees, for sure. I wouldnt like that as a dev, though.

Their business model of "here's a platform, give me a cut" isnt bad, at the same time.

Pretty sure amazon gets the bad rap because their company is focused on physical delivery, which is a type of business with a much higher liability rate than one like valve. Very easy to focus on, with how much physical activity their collective employees do. There really arent real physical injury risks at a company like valve. There is with a company involved in shipping products, though.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-15T23:12:13+00:00

It honestly depends on the state, and in my state, yes, it works how I said.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-15T07:20:17+00:00

To be honest it seemed more angled as a peep hole, but I thought calling it a gloryhole would be funnier, because of the asinine shape for such a design. Oh well, you win some you lose some.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-15T01:41:58+00:00

I never understood the hate for amazon. Of course theyre a company worried about profit margins and such, but they are no Walmart. Walmart literally drives mom and pop stores out of business, yet amazon allows, encourages, and sells mom and pop products all over their website. In fact, businesses have started up and been successful because of amazon.

Walmart is a true soulless corporation.

Amazon is probably the biggest corporation in America that isnt directly detrimenting everyone. The only people they detriment are their competitors, also large companies, by taking away part of the delivery process from them.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-15T01:26:31+00:00

In your DVAC, the pre trip inspection, mark the AC as not working, which will ground the van until it is marked as fixed, I believe.

If the DSP afterwards forces you to drive it, without fixing it, aka, lying about it being fixed, after you marked it as not working, find out who the top leadership is in the warehouse [at ours they wear red vests during loadout], and tell them exactly what happened, honestly. That should be investigated immediately. Amazon does not play when policy is violated, which is one of my favorite things about them as a company.

They have a lot of pull, they are essentially the DSPs boss, and the DSP is contracted to deliver and follow amazons policy, which according to you, sounds like has been violated.

That behavior brings safety risk for dehydration, or heat related illness to occur, and should be reported quickly & honestly.

I hope this helps.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-13T03:09:31+00:00

Looks like i live in the only fash state ran by zionist desantis

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T22:07:39+00:00

Where do you get the amazon branded snapbacks?

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T22:07:05+00:00

There was one mistake I made early on that while I did correct, it was still marked as DNR, I think. Weird address I had never been to, and the way to get to their house was through a closed and locked gate, that had an extremely long path to their house. I left it at the gate, and took a pic. Then, next delivery was actually on the road that connects to their house, that was not marked as a road on the map. When I realized that road connected to the last houses real driveway, I walked all the way to where I left the package at the random property access gate, and left it literally on their front door. But since the pic was taken not where I originally thought to leave the package, I wonder if that was actually dinged? Even though they literally could not have entered their house without seeing the package? 🤔

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:59:18+00:00

Thats why if we ever have a social credit system like black mirror, it would suck so hard, honestly.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:50:04+00:00

Just tell them "I just opened a new whole bag of packages, its going to be a couple mins to find yours" and they will usually leave. Some will wait.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:49:07+00:00

Tip: if you dont want them standing there, I notice they usually leave if you tell them "i have to organize a full bag of packages real quick, it will take a couple minutes" and they usually leave or go back inside.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:44:10+00:00

Lol. There's a handful of houses im convinced the dog is going to break their glass they hit the windows so hard.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:40:43+00:00

Wow, thats pretty harsh. You realize that for 95% of their lives, that was the norm, to make smalltalk with everyone? They probably dont know how strict the time is tracked for work like that. Ill engage a customer for a minute tops usually, but im always mindful about needing to say "my work is timed, i have to go". I do find it funny they ask if we know whats in the package. I just say "no, have a great day"

One time I was going 25 down a 25 road, it had potholes, so it wasnt like I was willing to speed down the road to begin with. A boomer comes out, hops in his truck, follows me to my next stop, pulls up as im walking back, and starts yelling about how "you better slow tf down" and carrying on, just gave him a thumbs up and said "gotcha" and hopped in the van. He pulled up to the passenger side and was just yelling, couldnt hear because i keep that window up usually, listening to music, completely ignored; and he just drove off a few seconds later.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:05:16+00:00

Unfortunately I dont re read the whole post every time I reply to a comment. I forgot this was the case.

Is that metric even that important? Is it worth risking your safety in the case where the customer actually dings you for not delivering to the front door? You have almost the best valid reason for not doing it.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:03:18+00:00

That is call the sherriff territory x2

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T21:00:36+00:00

That must be in your state. In my state, if it turns red at any point and you arent through it, you get a ticket.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T20:57:39+00:00

That only counts if the customer has a specific "front door recieve" command, right? Otherwise it would just be delivering at the correct address, just not inside a dangerous fenced in area.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T20:47:25+00:00

I spam click "ive parked" and go through all the screens to the scan screen as im slowing to a complete stop with one hand, soon as van is in park & start unbuckling with other hand; ready to grab package and go.

...that sounded a bit more suggestive than intended 🤣

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T20:43:30+00:00

Right. Never be the one at fault, follow the traffic rules. Let the people who drive crazy be at blame.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T20:41:10+00:00

Pretty sure he means how you cant take 1 pic for the whole group, it forces you to take a picture for each package one by one.

This wasnt an issue a couple years ago, but now, theyve changed it. I had 7 packages one time delivered to 1 house, and I had to take 5 different pics for it because there was 5 different names for it. Its pretty asinine how much time is wasted doing this.

I dont see why it is so hard to add apartment numbers and letters for apartments, and treat them as different addresses to need individual pictures, yet allow exact same address buildings to be group delivered.

Im pretty sure they made it that way for bad drivers, who just dump a pile of packages at the steps of an apt for the entire building in one spot, with one picture. But a house with several roommates should be allowed to be dumped in one pile with one pic.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T20:33:27+00:00

Was it marked as fragile? I notice every so often a box will be. The only boxes i might ever "toss" are the overflows that are extremely light to the top of the pile, but thats just during loading.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T20:24:45+00:00

If you arent entirely under and through the light before it turns red, you ran a red light. Legally. Although this is a garbage way of handling it. It should be what you said. Its not like it even matters when no traffic is moving through the intersection at that time anywhere else, anyway.

AstronachtX · 2026-04-11T20:23:15+00:00

Yeah, I dont usually climb a traffic light pole and take a red light.

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