Amazon delivery driver in pub on duty.

[sosorryimnotsorry]

More a What would you do than an AIBU.

Currently awaiting an Amazon delivery. It’s important as I need it for my business and need it today so products can be made to send out tomorrow. So I’m anxious for it to arrive.
I have been following the tracking of the van. I’m the next delivery and have been for over 35minutes. The van has not moved in that time and is in a car park outside a pub a couple of miles away. The pub is down a lane with no other properties or buildings down there and the tracking is showing it in the car park.

I’m not going to lie I’m pissed off because I need my parcel urgently and I’m waiting for a delivery man to finish his drink in the pub and actually bother to deliver it.
My question is would you report them to Amazon? I have screenshots of the tracking.

If there's no way to get to the pub without driving there does that mean you assume every vehicle parked there is then driven drunk? I'm very sorry you've had personal experience with drunk driving, it may have skewed your perspective. I generally assume the majority of those driving to/from pubs are not drinking alcohol.

A drinkers pub in the arse end of nowhere with no nearby houses? Do all these drinkers have to drive. Plus a landlord that has been convicted of both drug offenses and money laundering?

Maybe he lives there

And yet was still able to get a licence! Almost unbelievable, isn’t it?

🤣

Absolutely 💯
Where I work breaks are unpaid so you bet I'm taking every minute of that break.. nil interruptions. Nil wage theft.
Learnt the hard way

Ooh plot twist… maybe he’s the money laundering drug dealer?!

S/he could be parked there eating dinner in the van! Or maybe s/he’s gone in for a chat with his mates. Why don’t you ask when you get your parcel? 😂

It’s the mumsnet way 🤷🏼‍♀️ you either report someone or come on here asking if you should report someone, all the while asking if you should be offended!

If you were that desperate for the parcel why didn't one of you drive to the pub and ask for it?

So this place is so dodgy its basically one of those pubs that in films some "outsider" walks in and everyone stops and stares at them like "I think you've come to the wrong joint boy"....

Maybe the poor driver, who isn't aware of the very famous reputation of this dodgy little pub you don't even drive past because of the bad vibes, stopped off to go to the loo

And the crowd of regulars, including the many times over arrested owner, beat him up and stole his keys

Now the poor man is lying in the backroom of this dodgy pub, the OP's precious parcel stolen

And he's thinking "someone will find me because the tracker will say I've been here for hours"

They actually don’t get a scheduled lunch break due to the amount of parcels on their route they are expected to eat on the go!

They actually don’t get a scheduled lunch break due to the amount of parcels on their route they are expected to eat on the go!

It's obvious what you mean, but I am chuckling at the drivers struggling to eat all the parcels.

The working conditions and pay per parcel are shocking in this industry - that is the human price of “free” delivery. Whining about what is most likely to be a data reporting delay/issue in the tracking system is futile.

Considering all the reasons why the data may be stuck in one location - need to eat, use the loo, get water or coffee, flat tyre waiting on a call out, problems in the data reporting system it says a lot about the OP that their first response is to assume drinking and driving and complain.

Happy to be told I'm wrong but I didn't think the trackers actually show you exactly where the drivers are, they are very "in this area" - otherwise it leaves the drivers open to attack for a variety of reasons, for example potential thieves or assault from people who haven't had a parcel delivered.

Although I think this whole post by the OP is a wind up….

Have you got your parcel yet OP?

If you need things so urgently then you should have ordered them with plenty of time to receive them. Or you could’ve got off your arse and gone and bought them in person.

Straight and to the point. Your business is no more important than anyone else's parcels and post.

While you are being given a very hard time, It's because its all a bit bizarre how you have approached it. Your amazon parcel didnt arrive in the window, which is annoying when you need it. I think most people would complain to Amazon who would then do their own investigation.

Instead you:

• looked up the tracking for the driver repeatedly over a course of 8 hours
• Researched the pub he was in
• Looked up, or engaged others in looking up Amazon code of conduct
• Posted on mumsnet and argued with everyone.

It is a but of a strange approach! I hope you have your parcelnow.

YABVVVU!
Amazon tracking is not in real time 🤣 it pinpoints the last scanned item, it’s not a tracker of movements. He probably has several deliveries in that vicinity. I order from Amazon regularly and the map could show him up the road from my house and it’s normal that it takes about an hour because of all the houses and flats he delivers to around me. Do you think they carry 5 items in their van? Are you aware of just how many people order via prime??

Please, stop jumping to conclusions. Pubs and places around them also order from Amazon.

What type of pub doesn't sell soft drinks?! 😂

You don't get an exact time you get a window.

Imagine monitoring a delivery drivers movements while they are on a break? I bet you wouldn't allow him to use your toilet or have a rest and a soft drink in your front room? So why shouldn't he take his break in a pub.

Or for all you know his van broke down and he pulled into the pub to wait for assistance?

Honestly these people are human beings. Not robots.

Its fairly obvious to me that the tracker became inactive, its happened to me a fair few times when ordering. Amazon are generally quite reliable but there has been times when the tracker showed last location for hours, no package showed up and then later get notified that its been moved to the following day.

I agree that the tracker is never that accurate it pinpoints the exact location, just a general idea.

The other thing is even if he had stopped for a break, the OP says its not that kind of place for soft drinks and no food. Firstly anywhere that sells soft drinks can be used for that , and use of a toilet and secondly, how does the OP know the driver is a local and would know that information? A pub is a pub and if the driver wants a quick drink, stop for a bit, use toilet, get food, they wont necessarily know its "not that kind of place" until they've parked up and gone in.

Amazon should not drink on duty and should deliver parcels on the specified day/time but other than that customers just have to wait until the driver gets to them - whatever else is going on for them.

That's dangerous and probably illegal. Eating whilst driving is an offence afaik, if you have an accident? Due care and attention lacking.
He could also be delivering several parcels to the pub and stopped for a pee and quick soft drink? Publicans buy off Amazon too.