Wouldn't Amazon just adjust its algorithm to punish delays in delivery? Penalize drivers who take longer to get there than they should if they were truly nearby?
Apparently they are putting the phones in a location that is impossible to be physically closer to in order to get the job first -- park car, walk over to the tree to sync your phone then wait in your car for the next job offer.
The trick -- per a previous job -- is to figure out where the computer thinks the address is (on the street, in the middle of the parking lot, &etc...) and get your location as close as you can to that to get an edge over the competition.
This reminds me of when I was a Lyft driver and in SF there is a dance studio under the central freeway; sometimes dropoffs would tell you to drop the person off on central freeway and jump down to the building.
The bullit room was another tricky one; entrance is on a hotel lobby off of the stockton tunnel, but google maps has you go to a sketchy alley off of bush. It's even trickier for the driver since the sketchy alley is also called "bullit".
Why are drivers willing to allow this and not just walking over and destroying these phones? I don't understand the benefit of getting more deliveries but at the cost of a significant percentage of the payment.
But the drivers using this technique are truly nearby, they are getting the route on the phone in the tree and then forwarding the route information to their own phone in their car, and they are presumably in the area.
They are trying to beat out the other drivers waiting nearby them, not sit at home and only leave the house once they get a route.
