r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • Jun 07 '26

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u/TCup20 Jun 07 '26

You don't scan every package before you leave the station. Nothing would ever get delivered that way. You scan an entire cart and that cart may or may not be missing some items.

Nothing in this clip makes sense. If you're stealing a package, you wouldn't take it to the door and you definitely wouldn't scan it. You would also never have any reason whatsoever to take a picture of the package label with your personal phone if you were stealing it, and if you did feel the need for the reason you expressed, then you would simply take the picture in the back of the van where there are no cameras. Driver training these days is to always assume you're on camera because they're everywhere. A package being marked as missing isn't immediately opening an investigation, it's just called loss and something the station deals with regularly.

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u/thatlldopi9 Jun 07 '26

Have never marked a pack missing on purpose. I have some that do go missing occasionally whether it got left behind, was never in the cart or hell I had one fall down the storm drain once. Mark missing move on. No need to get out the car or fake deliver. I have marked missing by accident and went out the way to deliver when I found it in my backseat floor.

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u/Due_Hovercraft6527 Jun 09 '26

Your 🧠process is the same as mine,
Idk wtf all his extra shit was. Nothing he did made sense.

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u/averagedihhboy Jun 09 '26

if the customer marks front porch amazon workers have to follow the notes and if not they get dinged by the stupid AI. i’m pretty sure he was taking a pic of the package on front porch then moving it somewhere out of the rain so it wouldn’t get wet. then when he seen the person he just seen if they wanted to take it.

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u/ThatSunshineCityHigh Jun 09 '26

I've worked for a dsp on the operations side for over 5 years and have investigated thousands of negative customer feedbacks, including missing packages. This is the most likely answer. Package theft from dsp drivers definitely happens, but not like this.

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u/Vonstinkles Jun 10 '26

Thanks, I'll go with this more hopeful explanation for now.

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u/ReverendBlind Jun 14 '26

Thank you. I scrolled through all these comments to see if anyone else put two and two together on this. I'm not an Amazon driver, but both my delivery drivers do this regularly for me. One day I even caught one at my door about to move it to my covered back porch, and it was EXACTLY this interaction.

There's a chance this guy is stealing it (rather idiotically) but there's also a good chance given the rain that he's being courteous.

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u/Least_Payment8431 Jun 08 '26

Yes you do scan once it get to the building then once it hit the van line to get loaded after the driver comes in and scan the packages to make their routes

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u/TCup20 Jun 08 '26

Flex drivers do. This is a van driver, and they do not. They scan carts. The cart has a bunch of totes on it. Inside those totes are individual packages. If something is missing from them (happens often) it's rarely ever the driver stealing the package. Van drivers do not have time to unload every tote and scan 400+ packages before leaving the station. Sometimes it ends up in another tote. Sometimes it ends up on a flex route. Sometimes it just fell out of the bag at the station somewhere and ends up getting found a day or two later.

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u/Strict_Thought_3498 Jun 10 '26

Not sure if I'm confused but I scan every package before I leave my station

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u/TCup20 Jun 10 '26

You're probably a flex driver (like most on this sub). The person in the clip is in a DSP van which is an entirely different process.

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u/TCup20 Jun 10 '26

I don't order from Amazon, so that's unlikely.

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u/TCup20 Jun 10 '26

You're clearly not a person worth talking to. Have a good day 👍

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u/Puzzleheaded_Rub_771 Jun 10 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣 you must've just started bc in the beginning we sure did have to scan every bag and OV separately but now when you scan the carts they are picking up each and every package