Delivery Drivers Losing Time to Unrealistic Routes

“grabbed a 4hr route and only reason they are 4 hrs is to give you enough time to figure out to deliver all these super difficult packages. Basically a for sure to fail route. Lately they been sending you to places where is way too late or way too early deliver to a business that is closed .. forced to risk leaving or taking back to get dinged. I already got dinged 3 times and ive submitted proper evidence business was closed. submitted by /u/cadaver_562 [link] [comments]”

“I don’t know if I was just pissed or irritated that I had to go track down my package throughout my neighborhood knowing how the system works as a driver, but let be real 8/10 the address is either on top of the garage, on a side pillar or mounted by the front door there is also 98% of the time a photo we can reference to see what we are looking at is right so delivery to the wrong address is kinda hard, so ya it takes 5 seconds to just look at the address and the phone and put two and two toget”

“Got one today, 1 package, 40miles away, according to Google Maps, it will take about an hour and 40 mins(including 5pm rush hour traffic) one way, and I live around the station so I have to 40 miles back. submitted by /u/Popular_Letter70 [link] [comments]”

“I have been through the wringer this week. One block that started at 345 and the first stop was 20 minutes away had 6 stops to businesses that close at 4! And not once...not twice....but 10 different stops (at different blocks) were to places like Michelin and BMW warehouses and at the security gate was told that personal vehicles were not allowed. When I tried to put there was access issues I was prompted that I was "too far away". And the topper......NO CUSTOMER NUMBER. Then I have t”

“Had about 45 stops on a 3.5 hour block today. Stop 29 was literally on my block, so I skipped it and made it my last stop. Finished the rest of the route, came back, dropped the package off, and I was already home. Now I’m just waiting for the ultra-rare day Amazon gives me a package for my actual address. Few weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/s/GPTimvpmtn submitted by /u/tuf98801 [link] [comments]”

“did anybody notice the time deadlines get tighter with the new rating system? I used to get ex extra 5-7 minutes to deliver, now the expected delivery time is almost exactly how long the GPS says the drive is. submitted by /u/Giggy_with_it_917 [link] [comments]”

“This has to be a joke right. I took a different route than suggested because of traffic it was going to be 8-10faster and I got penalized almost $5 for that trip for getting the customer there faster. Wth is this BS submitted by /u/Mammoth_State3144 [link] [comments]”

“I guess for efficiency’s sake one of you can drive and the other can deliver, but that doesn’t change the 40 minute drive back home you’re doing so you’re both not making money after a delivery route. My station has hella couples. How does that work? Do you guys split the 80 bezoz bucks you make doing a route? Why don’t both people just do their own routes? Or one of them can get a different kind of part time job? submitted by /u/Tokyo-Gore-Police [link] [comments]”

“Out of nearly 50 deliveries, I calculated nearly 40% of deliveries were in the back of neighborhoods, all the way at cul de sac dead ends. I’m passing by rows and rows of houses just to drop off a 2 oz envelope to the very last house at the end of a dead end. There’s no way to optimize, each delivery requires a k turn and a complete drive all the way back out of the neighborhood. Does anyone else get punished like this by their warehouse? submitted by /u/Tokyo-Gore-Police [link] &#32”

“This bullshit four hours 30 minutes $121.49 packages and I still have to drive all the way back home when I’m done. I can’t wait to quit this shit. submitted by /u/Head_Meet1066 [link] [comments]”

“I had three packages and a long distance. 1 package was due at 5:40 and the two others were both due by like 6:30. Yet the 5:40 package was the last one on my route. I finished in time to deliver it by like 5:36, but why would they put the closest timed package as the last package on my route? submitted by /u/Tokyo-Gore-Police [link] [comments]”

“The route I had yesterday about broke me. I don’t even want to work today. I had to drive 30 minutes to my delivery area. 38 stops. Then near the end of my route one package was 25 minutes of driving to deliver! The package after that took 20 minutes of driving to deliver. There were other stops that were 6-7 minutes apart throughout the route. I went over by 1.5 hours! I complained again but I feel like I’m always complaining and writing emails. I’m tired of calling. I’ll get in trouble for con”

“Picked up a 1.5 hour route just to test the waters considering I only do this when I have free time for some side cash. The first stop was 40 MINUTES away with heavy traffic up the 93… by the time I was finished with the 5 stops, the route went well over the hour&1/2. Never pick these up, these are just not worth the time and energy, this was only for $30 btw🤣 absolute garbage, waste of time/gas route. If anything you end up loosing money. Amazon Fresh submitted by /u/These_Acti”

“Currently 0800 Delivery is until 2pm. Next pick up is until 3pm, according to his phone call(even tho was originally told it was a 24 hour pick up) I’m 120 miles from delivery and and that is 57 miles from Next pick up I’m wrong for telling him there’s no reason to call me at 0800 if I haven’t went on duty yet just so he can “make sure I’m all good for on time delivery and pick up “ ? submitted by /u/lake_june [link] [comments]”

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“So I had to wait for both order at PJs and the app asked if I wanted to wait, and I picked wait because it was $20 for 2 miles and they were in the oven or just about so 10 minutes tops. Why was it still late even though I was on time after leaving the store with the food? I also said they were still making it when I arrived. This app is so stupid. I had to manually have it excluded. submitted by /u/sdcar1985 [link] [comments]”

“Has this been happening to anyone else lately? It never used to for me aside from maybe one in my total route, now it’s ALL stops. It started this week for me: in my itinerary, everything on a normal route has “expected by” times. Many times they’re completely unreasonable. For example, in pic 1 on this 3HR route that started at 6:45, took me 30+ to get to stop one and the next few were pretty spread out and I notice in my itinerary that the next few stops are due within the next 10 minutes! The”

“So rn I have a route that started at 3:15 that ends at 6:45.. but all the packages are priority and due at 4:40 which is in a few minutes and still have 26 packages left.. Will this affect me?? submitted by /u/Swimming-Guess-6741 [link] [comments]”

“Yeah they tried to say this was a 2 hr block (7:45 pm to 9:45 pm)...smh I don't like doing it, but I was not taking #5. There was no way I was making that delivery by 10 pm. submitted by /u/cbradley99 [link] [comments]”

“This is the first time that I’ve had a 3 hour route take me over 45 minutes away (that’s the farthest stop) not only that I have 43 packages and I’m only getting paid $85? That can’t be right surely? submitted by /u/ItsOdys [link] [comments]”

“Make it make sense, i was only able to hit 3/8 businesses, now i have to take 5 gigantic xl boxes back tommorow and look like a dummy at the warehouse in front of everyone for bringing so many boxes back I swear I always get the fucked up routes everytime, im gonna get dinged for something submitted by /u/Sufficient_Tooth_949 [link] [comments]”

“But I wasn’t! I picked up the block at 4:56pm for a 5pm block. Got there at 5:01pm! Station said that was crap and had me call. I still cant figure out how to met those calls come through, so I chatted with support. Support said they’ll just cancel it and I should get paid in three days. I am willing to let the money go to avoid contacting support again! It is day 3 and I got points for the block but no money! Should I wait longer or am I not getting paid? submitted by /u/milczy33 [l”

“Got a 3.5 hour route from hell today. I arrived 15 minutes early and waited another 3/4 minutes for a route assignment. When I finally got one, I was given 47 packages, four of which were somehow due just 15 minutes after my shift started. I asked an attendant walking out “hey how am I supposed to deliver these on time?” and he insisted “oh you’ll be fine.” After spending about 20 minutes loading and organizing everything, I started the route on the phone with support, explaining that Amazon had”

“I don’t get how they can offer these routes when it’s like 5 min still start time. Do people hang out at the Amazon station and click away and see if they get lucky with these routes submitted by /u/Comfortable_Rope5685 [link] [comments]”

“Was assigned a ball-breaker route on Sat night/Sun morn (4am-8am). First stop, of course, was about 52 mins away in a far outlying suburb (Pretty Country) and a Weekend retreat/Lake town. Between the crazy distance (at last stop 122.1 miles total) Insane road closures due to a ton of work in that area that have almost no signage so was left to figure out a lot on my own cause the app just wants you to make U-turn all night long The stops were spaced out way too far for this to have been a 3 hour”

“the on-time delivery metrics is a joke if you’re waiting for an order - it’s almost a guaranteed late delivery noticed this especially tonight - it’s gone from bad to worse & i’ve already reached the limit of late delivery adjustments DD designed it for us to fail submitted by /u/GothamX8 [link] [comments]”

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This shit is ridiculous. submitted by /u/Jakovasaur420 [link] [comments]

“so sick of hidden mileage, so sick of being "switch to busier Zone", which never is and i don't switch zones and they still send crap offers from that zone sending the AR down, what a conspiracy to shed drivers, i'm sure its working, can barely any money, i mean profit for my 1099 business, what is wrong at The DD submitted by /u/Dull_Sell_1827 [link] [comments]”

“Hey everyone, I need help understanding a late delivery ding on a 2-hour block (2:30 PM - 4:30 PM). It was 14 stops, all South Bronx apartments. It took me 2 hours and 45 minutes to finish, so I went over my block time. I manually reordered the stops. Some were due by 3:30 PM and others by 10:00 PM. I did the early ones first and left the 10:00 PM ones for the end. Every single package was scanned and delivered before its specific "deliver by" time. What caused the ding? Going over the”

“I picked up an instant offer and the drop off was next door. 5 minutes from my house. 2 minutes to pickup. 2 minutes to drop. 5 minutes back home. I was home before my official time start because I checked in 15 minutes early. submitted by /u/ThatguyfromNO [link] [comments]”

“Anyone ever have the app just straight up send you to the wrong place? I had a pizza delivery and it ended up sending me across town to an address I had already delivered to earlier in the day. Once I pulled up the app then rerouted me across town. Really annoying waste of time and gas submitted by /u/Background-Cod-2394 [link] [comments]”

“And you just know it'll not only mess up your on-time rate, but DD will reject the appeal as well submitted by /u/eddmario [link] [comments]”

“Today's route was in a town an hour away but I still finished an hour early. The app suggested that I drive an hour back to get 2 more packages (I literally delivered to the houses next door already!). Do better Amazon. submitted by /u/ImaProLoser [link] [comments]”

“Anyone know what this is about. Literally first order of the day, there was traffic on the highway so I got off and took the city probably added 7-10 minutes but better than the highway. And as soon as I drop it off I get taken offline and this email. Been with uber for years and I’ve never had an incomplete delivery. What fraud did I commit? submitted by /u/ImaginaryFisherman72 [link] [comments]”

“wow a few apartments n private home ( intercom) didn't finish till 10 minutes after 2 hrs not worth it submitted by /u/Praline-After [link] [comments]”

“13 packages (5 boxes) with 5 apartments, 3 hour block with 1st stop 48 minutes away (37 MI). Good or nah? submitted by /u/m149307 [link] [comments]”

“Took a last minute route 2:30hr drove 86 miles & pay was & $62.50. To top it off I was in the mountains for 2 deliveries at night. Ridiculous! Sometimes it’s just not even worth it ! What do u guys think ? submitted by /u/BrightOpportunity392 [link] [comments]”

“Same exact offer within 1 minute of each other that wants to take me a half hour out of my zone for peanuts. submitted by /u/Wuropp [link] [comments]”

“So, I need to go to bed so I’ve been watching my package delivery and when she first left the station it said she was 3 stops away. It now has been saying this for the last 30 minutes or so. I don’t care, I was just wondering if this is how it appears to the customer if the driver goes out of order in their route. I often times create my own route and was curious how it looks to the customer. She’s next to a bunch of apartments so I can understand she’d want to knock them out while there’s still”

“I'm not expecting back-to-back orders, but when it's been 10 minutes without an order, so I drive to another hot spot, and it tells me 1-3 mins for an order, I'm expecting an order.. I waited for another 10mins after these screenshots. This is why I don't grind platinum anymore, because it seems like gold gets more offers, even if they don't pay as much. EDIT: After waiting another 10mins and browsing reddit, I go back to the app and it's saying "Something went wrong”

“I’d probably be accepting more orders if I knew it wasn’t actually as long as Dasher is saying. submitted by /u/Micprobes [link] [comments]”

“In the span of 45 minutes I just received 18, $2 orders. I literally counted them. And every other order i received outside of legitimately 1 was a compounded 2$ order that added up to a $4-$6 orders for 9-12miles. It's genuinely ridiculous. Over the past month my Acceptance rate has gone from 85 to 30 because the influx of this genuine idiocracy. And no it's not me being choosy, the app is just a joke anymore and it's so damn stupid submitted by /u/Early_Statistician_1 [”

“I’ve gotten some crazy bad offers before but this one has got to be in the top five! I mean you would think the algorithm would catch things like this and correct it? But then again algorithms dont need to feed and shelter themselves. And apparently upper management and executives at DoorDash must think borderline slavery is just A okay. submitted by /u/Hissgina [link] [comments]”

“Who’s with me on this and does it? Only the 5th time in 100s of blocks I knew I wouldn’t finish on time before leaving the station. Picked up a 3 hour yesterday evening. Rush hour and drive to first stop left me 2 hrs 15 mins to deliver 43 stops. Btw - why have the itinerary say “about” # of apartments when Amazon could tell there were TWELVE based on “apt #” in the address??? 🙄 Anyway, been doing this long enough to know it ain’t finishing on time so…I hit all the homes and skipped the apartme”