To refuse to give my full date of birth to a delivery driver for my online food shop

[LadyLapsang]

I just placed an order for some groceries and provided photo ID on delivery - Oyster 60 plus photo card. The delivery driver refused to leave the shopping, there was one bottle of wine, as I refused to give my full date of birth. No wonder we have so much fraud!

I am well aware that no amount of frothing on here will change anything. And in the meantime in the misguided belief they are somehow "clever" (they aren't) the OP is quite happy to inconvenience themselves (no harm there), but also some poor sod who just wants to do their minimum wage job without the CEO levels of hassle.

Please tell me this is sarcasm? Surely no one is this bloody arsey?! Sack him for it? Get a bloody grip

it's ridiculous isn't it!

Exactly this

As someone who's worked in a shop that had to ID people the system can ask for a date of birth (same is true for delivery drivers - my partner was one) he'd have to enter the date of birth into a hand held machine before he could leave the shopping. He's not going to steal your identity, he's literally doing his job.

He is doing his job so get a grip , the console requires dob for certain purchases. It's not about looking over 18. If he can't input the dob he can't complete the delivery. Thanks for making his job extra difficult because you're paranoid.

It’s just corporate policy. If you’re a secret shopper you would get him fired. So yeah. You’re being unreasonable.

It takes a certain type of person who wants protection for children removed to make their own lives easier. (Joining in with the Reductio ad absurdum here)

You refused to give your DOB because you thought a male delivery driver may impersonate you to commit fraud?

Sounds like you cut off your nose to spite your face. Delivery drivers are hardly taking it in, and if I were one I wouldn’t have risked my job because one particularly arsey person chose not to give the information I needed.

Or because he gets "mystery shopped" as part of his performance review

More than his life's worth to not ask for ID even when it's glaringly obvious I'd bet

I'm pretty sure they need the date of birth to input into their system whilst they are at the door. They need to do it before they hand over the shopping / leave.
Same with age restricted items on Amazon, Uber eats, Gopuff etc. you don't need to verbally give them full DOB in store as they can use their own digression OR look at your ID.
These are different systems where the information actually needs to be inputted.
Poor guy was just doing his job.

They also don't need to input your dob on the handheld device in store either , you were being utterly ridiculous what fraud dis you think he was going to commit with a pensioners dob exactly

He literally has to put the dob into the hand held machine to be able to complete the delivery it's not some big bloody conspiracy you sound utterly ridiculous

In store, the assistant is covered by colleagues and cameras. If they are unsure they can ask upwards, and additionally the process where they clear the customer to buy the item will be captured on CCTV. Where the "it's obvious" brigade would be correct. This is why so few people (sadly myself included) rarely get asked for specific ID for date of birth.

However out in the field - amongst the loonytunes - the poor driver has no such recourse. If the dimwits on here are throwing a hissy fit over a simple series of numbers, I can't begin to imagine how they would react to a photo being taken to justify the drivers assumption the recipient is over 18.

At my supermarket in the US if they can see you look old enough they glance at the ID but can’t be bothered typing the exact date in and just add a random old enough year in.

I wonder if the OP ever got her wine.
I assume she must have actually had to go to a physical shop as she was so petty about following the rules of home delivery.
Wouldn't it have been hilarious if she got stuck in a 40 minute queue 😂
Or she could have spent 3 seconds saying "23.6.60" !

I think delivery drivers have to manually input a date of birth for restricted items before they can leave the shopping. There is no way round it unless he wants a bollocking or the sack.

Why not give him a false DOB? You could reinvent yourself whilst putting paid to his nefarious plans.

Well they have certainly had a whine here.

Quite - I can't believe the number of people posting here who throw out their personal details willy nilly. The same people who then cry when their details are stolen, they lose money and they think they should be compensated.......

It takes a certain type of person looking at a 50 year old or a 70 year old who needs to look at their driving licence and write down their date of birth, neither of which is required by law, and then claim not to do so is harmful to children. Sheesh....

As I may have mentioned earlier in this thread, people who have a problem with the law should really take it up with the people that make the laws.

Or, as a very weak second best, the people who setup the system that is supposed to be adhering to the law.

Making a big song and dance about it in front of a low paid employee who probably doesn't even have the authority to wear their own shoelaces is not only a waste of time, but - given how militant some people here claim to be about it - outright bullying.

I have a dangerously low tolerance for bullshit of any stripe. But I do try to ensure I don't take it out on people who have no choice.

That is not what your original post said, so changing the goalposts to seem reasonable. Also that is not what the law says. Agree it was worth pointing out the flaws to the people who create silly corporate policies and who are data hungry, but that doesn't mean you have to state your real dob on the doorstep so problem solved for people who are and look over 25 as far as I am concerned.

but that doesn't mean you have to state your real dob on the doorstep

Kindly - you can do what the fuck you like. Since you're proof reading my posts you will recall I said it was the OPs time being wasted all along. But I wont' join in with the pile in on the little people grappling with this requirement. Someone should speak for them.

I am not proof reading your posts. You made an illogical point with no basis that not wanting to share one's dob somehow puts children in danger and now seem to be stamping your feet because I challenged it. I;m fine to disagree and move on - which I am doing.