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by chomp 1831 days ago
A couple reasons, one is that Amazon made that weird denial tweet with "You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?", denying that their drivers ever peed in bottles. Most companies just put out a statement "We're looking for ways to improve etc etc...", so it was bizarre enough that the meme has carried forward. Amazon has a 1.75T market cap and is reporting profits in the many billions, so people are looking for them to start humanizing their jobs.

UPS drivers are, like you said, part of a union and if it was an issue, they have bargaining power and could get it addressed.