Los Amazon delivery drivers They struggle and struggle to meet scheduled deliveries. The demand is such that there are those who have complained of not having time to stop to go to the toilet en route, and are forced to urinate in bottles inside the vehicles. They have filed lawsuits against the company in the US, as well as joining strikes in several countries, including Spain.
At Christmas, this is even more accentuated: millions of people buy their gifts comfortably from home, avoiding the always crowded and stressful shopping centers or shopping areas. But much more stressful is the work of Amazon delivery people. So much so that A driver chose to abandon loading packages in the ditch. Literally. “We are very stressed.”
“What is that? Is it garbage?” No, they were gifts
A few days before Christmas Day, when the gifts arrive “by the work and grace” of Santa Claus, three bags loaded with Amazon packages appeared abandoned to their fate in a wooded area of Lakeville (Massachusetts). It is a town of just over 10,000 registered inhabitants.
The person who found this helpless cargo was a police sergeant, Shawn Robert, while he was patrolling the streets of this town at dawn. He found them around 2:00 in the vicinity of 63 Bedford Street. “What is that? Is it garbage?”he thought, as he explains to NBC. But they were not empty cardboard boxes, but about 80 packages, most of them with, surely, presents inside.
Lakeville Police Department posts on its blog that several agents loaded the packages and took them to the police station. There they inventoried all the cargo, counting the eight dozen packages. They also highlight that the theft or loss of this cargo had not been reported. All were reshipped to the nearest Amazon fulfillment centerlocated in Middleborough.
“Sergeant Robert may have saved many local residents a Christmas headache by noticing these bags and returning them to Amazon, hopefully in time for a Christmas delivery“they explain in the statement.
And so it was. One of the recipients tells NBC that he received a message detailing that “Your package was lost.” Which, he points out, was very frustrating because it meant running out of the gifts he was hoping to put under the fir tree. But he was finally able to count on them thanks to this police department.
So stressed that she didn’t care about a possible dismissal. Although the statement explains that they were investigating what could have happened, it did not take them long to learn the reason. That same Monday, December 23, an Amazon driver showed up at the Lakeville police station. The employee admitted to the agents that she was the one who threw the packages around 7:00 p.m. on Saturday.
The reason, he explained, “they were very stressed”. This driver, whose identity has not been revealed, stated that she intended to report the incident to her boss. Without a doubt, the situation should be the limit for her, who chose to abandon the packages despite facing possible dismissal.
Interviewed by NBC, the head of this police department has assured that there are no plans to file criminal charges, leaving the matter in the hands of Amazon human resources. Although the police must be relentless to apply the Law, in this case everything could be recovered and it cannot be pointed out as theft or another crime. And surely the fact that he ended up confessing the incident also helped. In any case, it is worth reflecting on the anguish that the e-commerce giant’s delivery drivers are suffering at this time.
Photo: Lakeville Police Department.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
