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.

Well if he is tiny it sounds like just the spot for him to grab for a glass of lemonade and a packet of peanuts for sustenance. 🙃

She also claimed the pub makes her uncomfortable to drive past.

OP, why would you be driving past it if it’s down a lane with no other properties?

Why are you so weird?

You dont know what he was doing there, whether he was in a car park, or maybe he went on a break after parking or a mate leaves nearby and he left the car there and went elsewhere.

Im surprised you didnt go there in a detective's disguise to spy on the man with bonoculars, filming him so you can report...

Has he left the pub yet?

Where does the tracker say he is now, OP?

So you first posted at 7.30 and he hadn’t arrived not moved in 30mins

and was 830 when you did this post

if the delivery window ended up 615 - why didn’t you go to the pub and just collect yourself

and btw - your staff can go to a pub on their break. They can go where they like.

as long as do drink alcohol

I have often gone to the local pub if have a spare 30/60mins before a job -
usually free parking. A toilet and I get a cuppa or a lemonade and crisps and read my book or use their free internet

I do find it strange that @sosorryimnotsorry hasn’t come back on this am to

1. say parcel still isn’t there and fair enough she has a right to be pissed off

2. it arrived

or she may be so busy using the items in the parcel as she needed them urgently

I’d put money on the fact that the OP hasn’t updated because the parcel has been delivered by a non inebriated driver.

A tiny drinker
A tiny drinker man just has me giggling at the mental image 😁

I’ve just had an Amazon delivery, yet no notification to say it’s been delivered and, according to the tracking, the driver has been in the next village since about 10.30, so I don’t think the tracking is particularly accurate!

He probably is sill there, still drinking and driving around the pub before he comes back for another pint.

And it's not a reputable establishment!

Wildly unreasonable. Just because he is going to be providing a service to you (delivery) does NOT mean you control his time. You are neither his boss nor 'in charge' of him. Last time I checked there's still about 8 hours left of possible delivery time today.

If YOU failed to order things in good enough time for your business (which you did) that's on you. Be more organised next time and then you won't take it out on unfortunate people doing their job. The entitlement is staggering.

I bet you're rude to waiting staff and airline staff too.

So the pub is down a lane on its own that leads to nowhere else but you feel uncomfortable every time you drive past it? 🤔. Oh, I get it. You drive past it to monitor the car park for Amazon drivers getting pissed.

Elton John had a hit single about him I think 😀

I've had this happen. Turns out the poor bloke had broken down in the pissing rain. Just glad he was safe and I got my parcel the next day. Get some perspective.

He’s entitled to a lunch break. If it was so urgent you should have been more productive in your ordering and done it sooner than you needed it so you wouldn’t be in the situation your in.

But his lunch break's been nearly 24 hours now. How long is reasonable? And how would you know to order a spare part for a machine before it breaks?

Final update.
Still no parcel and we have now cancelled it and will be getting a refund. Amazon don’t seem to know where the parcel is or if it will be delivered. Our wonderful engineer has managed to sort a work around for the machine and parts on order directly from manufacturer.

parcel was actually due before 1pm yesterday - that’s the delivery my BP selected and paid for. It was not on prime. Delivery then was rescheduled to 4:15 - 6:15pm.

To answer some questions
No we were not disorganised about needing something urgently. It was a mechanical part for a machine we use. Not components for products. In over 20 years of using this machine and similar ones this specific part has never before broken. The engineer we had out this morning has seen it happen only a couple of times and he services these machines every day. So short of having a crystal ball we could not have predicted that it would fail when it did. Or how it did.

Tracking deliveries when you run a business like ours is routine. We know within a small window of time when most of our deliveries are due. It’s just the way our logistics work. So it’s not at all unusual for us to notice a later than scheduled delivery.

Nor did we research the pub. We know the pub we have all lived here along time. We have access to some land down the road from the pub so yes we do go past it from time to time.

Its really not that deep!

I am now going back to work as we are incredibly busy!

Glad you got it sorted

Yeah righto!!

So in summary, the chances that he was just in the pub boozing all afternoon and sacked off the rest of his deliveries is pretty slim, and it’s more likely that there was some sort of issue with the driver/van/tracking software which meant he couldn’t make his deliveries. I’ve had issues like this before with Amazon, as I’m sure others have too.

🤣

You're so busy you can spend time every day watching trackers for parcels?

Maybe the parcel has gone missing because the poor driver is laying injured or dead in this super dodgy pub after all

Yes @BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind precisely because we are so busy just now we have to. We have a small yard and only one loading bay. We are in the big push to get products out the door to retailers before the Christmas. Our lane is narrow and doesn’t have room for multiple Lorry’s or vans to pass easily. So yes to make things work just now we have to closely manage logistics.

And arguing on mumsnet till 3:30am🤣