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Amazon customer says delivery driver she found masturbating in her bedroom returned to her home (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by FelixCress@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 77 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure I believe this story:

Jane reported the incident to the police and to an Amazon helpline. The call handler apologised to her for the “inconvenience”. She said: “I told her: ‘This is a police matter, it’s not an inconvenience. This is threatening behaviour by one of your couriers.’”

She was able to call Amazon and get someone on the phone?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

... 72-year-old retired British social worker who lives in Spain and New Zealand ...

I think the more noteworthy part is how she has figured out macro-scale superposition.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

... and what people in Ethiopia may see when they look up.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“I was stunned,” she told the Guardian. “He was masturbating vigorously.

“I told him: ‘Your colleague has done something very bad.’ My Spanish did not extend to the word masturbate.

🤣

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah Amazon doesn't want to pay for shipping packages so they send a bunch of random people to our houses. I swear in like 2 years I never saw the same Amazon driver twice. With hundreds of people coming to your house every year a few are going to be bad.

[+] AZX3RIC@lemmy.world -7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not Amazon, it's the company that bought the routes from Amazon.

Amazon couriers are employees of a third party company, they often run different routes everyday.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whatever the company is, sending a different driver every time is not good for security or service. Not sure where they keep finding new people. One guess is the drivers don't find it worth the effort and time and wear and tear on their own personal vehicle.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Compared to the UK where you have Royal Mail which sends the same posties to the area, that you get to know them and they get to know you. Also helpful if an address is wrong

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well the American equivalent of that is a United States postal service postal worker we are the exact same thing can happen, growing up I had the same mailman for almost 15 years

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

It just makes sense to do that as well. The postman can tell where they need to go immediately just by reading the name. A lot of the time they act as a point of contact for people and the postal company as well

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Amazon is so bad at coordinating their deliveries that I have seen three delivery vans parked on my block at the same time. Now I'm just waiting for them all to show up at the same house at once.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Amazon also allows individual people to sign up and deliver. No other company needed.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I somehow don't doubt the story. I've caught an Amazon driver pissing in a bush less than 100ft from a playground. Couldn't have driven around the corner and down the road a bit? Gotta be at the playground where little kids aggregate and play?