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“Thieves easily identify delivery vehicles and will follow their mark and decide which houses to steal packages from , [it] doesn’t matter how clever you think you are or how well that package is hidden,” a former delivery driver, David Scott, shared in a Quora forum.
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Listing special instructions for your deliveries can go one of two ways: the driver will either follow them or they won’t. The best way to get them to do the latter is to be concise and kind , a former driver named S. Elj said on Quora.
He explained that the drivers are busy delivering hundreds of packages. so some instructions will likely not get followed. If the instructions detail some frivolous request, it will probably get ignored. But if you have simple drop-off directions written in a kind way, the drivers will be more inclined to read and follow them.
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In addition to all the info for packages, the Flex app provides a set delivery route that drivers are expected to follow , former driver Kareem Caldwell explained in a Quora forum.
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“Whenever we deliver packages, we follow the route that the GPS is pinged to,” Caldwell said on the forum. “What we normally do is text or call the customer if we can’t find the exact address and when they don’t respond we skip them.”
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