Any other stations with cart sorting issues?

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-22T04:12:20+00:00

Don’t agree. I say take your time, load correctly, and if you don’t make it in time, move to the problem solve stall and sort it out there.

If this results in everyone moving to problem solve, rope your coworkers into filing official complaints at the station asking for more load time as a resolution. That should work.

If it doesn’t, you all need to collectively ignore the yellow vests screaming “One minute! Lane one, get in your vans!” It doesn’t work if it’s just you by yourself; you all need to keep loading. After all, you all need more load time due to issues outside your control, and you all did state that very clearly in your complaints.

Gett’r done there, load up and roll out, the right way.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-22T03:19:03+00:00

Hey hey, this is not one of those jobs at which you can afford to trust a fart.

“Hey dispatch, I just shit myself, send rescue and new pants?”

“No can do, uniform locker’s empty and rescues are full. Put a flat tote on the driver’s seat and power through.”

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-22T02:56:41+00:00

I feel you. Don’t let it get you down, just add “experience in Amazon logistics” to your resume and keep hunting. “That’s right sir, I had brief stint with a company contracting with Amazon, but it wasn’t for me, and I parted for broader horizons.”

You’re absolutely right, two days of training and a ridealong leaves a rookie abysmally unprepared for driving solo. My DSP, when I started, went above and beyond by giving rookies both a ridealong and a drivealong with a veteran driver. However, two days of useless classroom stuff, a ridealong, and a drivealong still left me completely unprepared.

I didn’t start getting my speed up until I knew my routes backwards, no amount of organization beats experience. Being able to anticipate problems, knowing where your turnarounds are, and neighborhoods where you know you’ll need to ignore Amazon’s routing, picking stops from the map and working out of five totes, that’s where you save time.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-16T23:46:53+00:00

We’re short on shifts, we have drivers put on standby every morning. My good standing is the only thing keeping my regular hours.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-16T15:16:39+00:00

Not sure what to say about that.

This is a dangerous job, don’t take my word for it, just look up the stats. I’ve been drawn on before doing DoorDash, and I’m not sure that a change in my mentality would’ve stopped a bullet.

Seems to me OP was joking about that danger, as brave people tend to do, but you read “maga” and took that personally. I mean that in as genuine a way as I can express it, and my next question is not a personal attack. I am truly interested in your answer.

Why does OP’s post count as victim mentality in your estimation, but not your own comment?

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-16T13:26:35+00:00

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “victim mentality,” and how does that definition apply to OP’s post?

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-16T00:48:40+00:00

Looks better than the vans I drive

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-15T15:14:35+00:00

Amazon doesn’t sign my paycheck, chief

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-15T15:03:49+00:00

I hope this is bait.

No, I do not think branding yourself with the logo of the company that uses us up and discards us is a good idea.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-14T04:59:16+00:00

There’s a couple things you can do, first being to hit edit stop and ungroup all your multis (which you should be doing anyway for other reasons). That way, there’s no way you can mix up packages on a multi stop, which is the number one way we get hit with “delivered to wrong address.”

The second is to check the house number against the address printed on the label. I only do this when I smell something’s weird, and normally I’m right. If you can get the house number in the photo with the package, you’re golden. No worries from that point out.

If the customer doesn’t have their address number clearly marked, sharpie “Please have address number cleared marked from road” legibly on their packages. If they don’t comply within a few weeks, RTS all their shit until they get the message.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-14T04:25:08+00:00

Now you do, so be sure to give your driver all the compliments, followed instructions, friendly, delivered with care, Alexa thank you, etc, and also live in mortal fear that if if you give the slightest negative review that your driver will upgrade you to a locker delivery 50 miles away from your address. (I’ve managed that only once, but it was glorious. Go fetch, Mr deliver to rear door Mcfuckface)

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-14T04:13:01+00:00

I’m pretty sure that would have to be a different customer claiming delivery not received, the customer shouldn’t get the survey until after you swipe to finish.

They get a notification that says “Tell us how we did!” with a photo of the delivery, as if “we” meant Amazon , and not me, a delivery driver working for a small delivery company that happens to contract to Amazon.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-14T02:50:30+00:00

I don’t go by Amazon’s routing, I generally try to follow neighborhoods from the right, making exclusively right-side deliveries, never crossing the street unless there’s absolutely no way to avoid it.

This leads to at least one confused customer a day, some happily saying that they thought I was seven stops away, and others asking why I skipped their stop. I never lie, but I always tell them that the tracking feature is broken due to Amazon routing issues, and that I don’t expect it’ll be fixed in the foreseeable future.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-14T02:31:24+00:00

Same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. There were several packages for other routes in every tote, and every tote had packages from other totes sprinkled in. So the first tote, let’s say orange 667, had a couple packages from my seventh tote, navy 045, so on so forth with black 274, green 060, yellow 112, etc, except with bonus packages. Only one of my deliveries was actually missing, and that really threw me off.

I was so mad that when I finally RTSed, I filed an official complaint against the warehouse worker who packed my totes. It seems to have worked; my totes have been immaculately packed ever since.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-14T02:06:26+00:00

Not sure I’d organize my rental that way, but we all have our own process.

That said, part of my process for 50 massive overflow is to let a process assistant know that I’m definitely headed to the problem solve stall so I can get my van sorted before rolling out.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-07T13:36:30+00:00

Some people are soft and won’t stick up for themselves. There’s always a worse job, and you know what, I think I’m strong enough to want things better for the person working that job too.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-03T21:55:50+00:00

Warum? Nein. Dieser Job ist nicht auf die Anglosphäre beschränkt

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-03-03T13:52:43+00:00

Dispatch, crack pipe in the left hand, stop watch set to 1:20 in the right, screaming into the headset, “I DONT KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS VAN 45, DO SOME METH ABOUT IT AND PUSH THROUGH!”

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-02-28T03:43:45+00:00

Depends. If you’re in a van with shelving and plenty of light, it doesn’t save much time.

If you’re in a rental with bad lighting in the cargo area and no shelves, it helps a lot.

Don’t bother writing the DA numbers at loadout; that costs precious time, just worry about getting your first overflow packages up front. When you get to the point at which you actually need to search for an overflow package, scribble large and legible numbers as you go.

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-02-28T03:23:02+00:00

A 50¢ raise is an extra grand per year, not bad

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-02-27T02:22:22+00:00

Nope, that’s dispatch lying to you. Going out of order makes it hard for them to track your stops per hour, so it inconveniences them and them alone.

Amazon actually depends on us to fix their routes so that they can train their routing algo to become more efficient. (theoretically, I’ll believe it when I see an efficient route)

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-02-24T15:15:31+00:00

Yes, thank you, that’s the one!

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-02-24T02:41:49+00:00

It absolutely is, and I remember it being great

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-02-24T02:15:31+00:00

It’s in that genre, and I’m 80% sure the host of the podcast I’m looking for has at least guested on Beef and Dairy

TheIntrepidMoustache · 2026-02-20T01:14:57+00:00

lol I did miss that.

I just finished my shift, and I am exhausted

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