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.

I get loads of stuff delivered by Amazon either before 10pm same day or by 1pm next day - don't have to pay extra for this either as I have prime

Still there? Gosh he's been a while. Over 24 hours and the pub doesn't even serve food. If he was hungry and needed a break before then he must be starving by now!

It's none of your business OP and Yabvu.
Tracking and timing his stop offs and considering reporting him????
Please!

Are you the business partner?

Its postcode dependent i think. I cant get same day or next spray before one but my sister in London can

No, I just think this is hilarious with all the people piling in 24 hours later, calling the OP all the names under the sun and telling her that she should have ordered something earlier, to be patient, that the guy is eating his lunch and going to the loo, that it's a place where another larger van drops parcels, that the pub is getting a delivery, that she should wait for the end of the delivery window and basically anything to excuse the fact that he never showed up.

Nothing in OP's updates says he was definitely getting pissed up though 🤣

I’m a bit late to offer this explanation, but in the car park of one of my local pubs is one of those post-locker things. Is it possible they have one of those and he was putting parcels in, retrieving returns etc?

But he might have been doing that yesterday and any number of things happened which means he can't deliver

And they are right about drivers being allowed breaks

And we still don't know the driver was drinking, which was the crux of OP's madness

True - I mean... we'll never know because he didn't show up.

According to some PP he's having a really long poo :)

The sense of entitlement is unbelievable 'I have ordered a parcel so I own your decisions you will do what i have decided you have permission to do and if you are where I dont agree with i will complain'

Good grief

I think it depends on the product too, I'm in Yorkshire and live the same day option if I order early enough!

The problem with your thread is that you’re assuming the tracking information you have is accurate to pinpoint him at a pub. In reality Amazon doesn’t give a courier’s precise location to protect the courier’s own privacy, and to also protect other customers, so their addresses aren’t being shown to other customers when they are next to be delivered to. You get a more generalised location, that is updated every so often. Most couriers that allow you to track the drivers do the same thing, aside from things like Uber trips where you get the precise location when you’re in their car.

OP said it was a dodgy pub. Perhaps he's dead...

He might. Other than OneFineDay22, I doubt that any of them have spotted the fact that this all happened yesterday and has been resolved (without the parcel).

I have to say I would be quite frustrated if I'd ordered something I needed urgently and it didn't show up. Especially if I'd paid for a particular delivery slot and the tracking showed it waiting and waiting and waiting and I was next on the list.

Go for it

For someone who is so busy, you sure have a lot of time to argue on mumsnet!

This happens to me fairly often. We live about 20 mins from an Amazon warehouse and parcels will say they will be delivered next day, then they just don’t arrive. Not every time, but every couple of months. It’s similar to the OP, it’ll say you’re next and they just don’t turn up. Anyway, I thought I’d offer a potential explanation for why he might have been at the pub for so long. They are generally really overloaded (the people at the warehouse as well as the drivers) so some stuff gets pushed to the next day as it’s literally impossible to complete their workload in the time given.

I know - I've had it too. And you have been one of the very few reasonable posters.

Thing is, I get why the OP was frustrated, running a time-critical business and something broke that she needed fixing.

She posted for advice but what she got was mostly 24 hours of people rushing headlong to gleefully put her in her place. Literally any made up stuff to make her sound as unreasonable as possible. I know this is AIBU and supposed to be somewhat "robust", but I'm seeing this more and more often where people seem to just go looking for a fight. It's not helpful, it's just hostile.

It's frustrating, yes, but it happens
It's happened to me before, I'm sure it will again

You think other posters were making stuff up?

OP had decided that the Amazon man was in the pub, taking the piss, most likely drunk. She’d had other delivery drivers turn up pissed, she had family members (plural) killed by pissed van drivers. If her staff entered a pub soft drink or not during lunch hours they’d be sacked.

Yes, irritating it didn’t turn up, excuse to report someone for drink driving, because you suspect they’re on a pub, no.

Interesting that although OP takes it very seriously drink driving, she’s not told us how she’s reported previous delivery men that have turned up
pissed?

Are you the other business partners husband furtively searching the Amazon code of conduct to report that the driver is not allowed to enter a pub whilst on duty?

Do you think OP would’ve been reasonable to report that the driver was in the pub for three hours, or do you think the tracker just stopped working?

At first I also thought a break but then after a considerable amount of time I am now thinking a problem with the vehicle. Either way you cancelled it. Did it ask you to give a reason? Perhaps it will get reported back that it was outside the time frame.

What if he’s charging his van in the car park? Jesus Christ

Could you not use the same crystal ball that tells you the Amazon man is in the pub drinking?

Won’t that one work? Or is it worn out?

The only good thing about the inexplicable continuation of this thread is that I won’t need a sleeping pill tonight 😂