r/deliverydrivers

On a bike ride saw this at the local Chevy dealer. Would make a really great van!

I excitedly accepted a $22 offer for 2 shop and delivers to the same person. I was driving so I didn’t see that one of the orders was 31 items…. Now I completely understand why some of you choose to turn that shit off. #1 fuck Safeway and the lack of help, them putting things on end caps nowhere near the rest of similar items/ marked aisle, and being out of shit and not leaving the shelf tags up. # 2 customer wanted me to unbatch the 2nd order to get the alcohol asap - I hit up support and they were just going to unassign me from both when I was already 80% done with the giant ass order. Rediculous. #3 I’m sick of items that won’t scan and don’t appear when you try to search for them-why can’t support manually add them for you? #4 as much as I like conversing with my customer having to jump back and forth between them and support while trying to shop is the fucking worst thing ever.
It took me over an hour for 31 items. I’m going home.

I thought it was my chance to get pro shopper back. But due to no fault of my own i get dinged more.

Oh and after all this i found out the tip was only $3.20 lmao

Fuck your 40 pack of water

I also peed myself a little because maverick wouldn’t let me use their bathroom

Night dashing will be easier

Man I'm getting tired of these delivery drivers. Left a whole ass Nintendo switch at my door in a plastic bag, and they delivered my game locked up. Who is making these decisions??

Edit: I now realize that this is the fault of Walmart staff. I am still not happy. The phone I ordered a few weeks ago (and returned because it worked like crap for the price) was packed BETTER than this and it was less expensive.

Second edit: Y'all are FAR too heated over this. It's a post about a Nintendo Switch console showing up at my door in a single Walmart store bag with a game, which was left (by store staff) inside of the store's theft protection box. I've made several shipped orders with Walmart before; for casual stuff, for video games, even my VR headset. Never once was any even remotely expensive item delivered to me locked up or in a plastic bag. It's always been properly put in an envelope (paper or plastic), or a box, even if it's from my local Walmart. I never had any reason to think that this particular order would arrive like this. There has only been ONE other time when I received items in a bag, and that was a packaged snack, and I didn't think anything of it because it was a $5 item. This is a video game console with a game. Over $300 was put into this order, so me being unhappy with how this was brought to me is entirely reasonable and justified. You can't tell me that even at the bare minimum, not a single employee couldn't have just have taken the game out of the theft protection box before bagging it. I'm not trying to be rude here to the employees, I understand that working retail is hard, and idk who made that decision or what the process was, but the execution was bad no matter how you look at it. And yall are down there in the replies arguing over "shipping vs delivery" and acting like I personally committed a crime for not going to buy this stuff at the store. The Switch is $70 cheaper online where I live. The games I want are available online, not everything is in store. If I get it all together, not only do I get a discount from in-store price, but I get free shipping AND it gets delivered to my door, and I don't have to talk to a single soul about price adjustments. And I was able to be home for the delivery, so literally why would I NOT have had it shipped? All that being said, that does not mean that I have to be happy with how it came to me, or that I "should've expected x, y, and z". Please, people, get off of the internet, take a detox, breathe in some fresh air at your local park, and try not to be a part of the Reddit users that give this platform a bad reputation.

Curious how many drivers actually follow the default stop order exactly as the app gives it vs mentally rerouting the whole thing yourself.

At this point I feel like after enough deliveries you start noticing patterns the apps don’t fully understand: apartment complexes that ruin momentum, impossible left turns, traffic timing, nightmare parking areas, stores/businesses that take forever, neighborhoods that are way worse at certain hours.

The route technically looks optimized… until real-world driving starts 😭

I’ve had plenty of routes where stop #3 clearly should’ve been later, stop #11 was physically next to stop #2, or one apartment delivery completely destroyed the flow of the next 20 minutes.

The more deliveries I do, the more it feels like experienced drivers eventually start treating the suggested route as “a rough emotional guideline” 😭 And the most time of relief was when I started using Road Warrior to see the route before I start. It's made a huge difference in how I approach each delivery day - just input multiple stops, hit optimize, and it's like magic.

Honestly feels like half of delivery driving becomes adapting, improvising, and quietly correcting route logic in real time.

First of all, I want to thank everyone who helps out by replying to the threads. I really appreciate it! A guy in a social media group I belong to posted a screenshot of his daily earnings, but he didn't mention which app it was. He just sent a screenshot showing several other apps alongside it. Does anyone know which app this is where he's showing his earnings?