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It was a little intriguing reading this after reading another article: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746600105/1-in-4-food-delivery-drivers-admit-to-eating-you

It was a little intriguing reading this after reading another article: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746600105/1-in-4-food-delivery-drivers-admit-to-eating-your-food https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746600105/1-in-4-food-deliver... Is delivery drivers stealing from customers' orders the new thing?

AJ007 7y ago
If you look at how much the overall volume of deliveries has increased in the past year, it doesn’t seem abnormal. You have something with a very low barrier to entry, and plenty of alternatives to switch between. Contrast this with, for example, working for the US Postal Service. While companies like Uber may resist contractor background checks, when these contractors are doing things like raping your customers, suddenly those background checks may have protected your brand. My friend has had Amazon packages stolen before, by the delivery person, who thought that as long as he took a photo of the package on the door step he’d win the dispute. I guess he didn’t see the security camera.
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lonelappde 7y ago
When Amazon launched in China, this was a major issue. An independent contractor courier would sign up, get a package, steal it, and disappear.
boomboomsubban 7y ago
The survey they mentioned had a clear goal of selling tamper proof containers, so I'd take that result with a grain of salt. The question "have you ever taken food from an order" is more ambiguous than you'd think. If a customer gave me some food. I may have answered yes. Or if some error had otherwise made the food undeliverable I may have said yes.