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by mikeryan 973 days ago
I’ve had enough deliveries where the person making the drop off isn’t the person on the app (wrong gender often) to think there’s a pretty heavy trade or even loaning of accounts enough so that these guys may have had a large stable of courier accounts to work from.

I’d not be surprised to find a healthy gray market of people “renting” their courier account out.

Anecdotally, and perhaps unfairly, in my head I have attributed this to be couriers who may have trouble finding legal work due to residency issues. I have not had a problem with it.

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Sometimes there are teams of two doing deliveries. It seems much more efficient, because the driver doesn’t have to actually park, and I also wonder if they can get more orders by having two accounts open at once.
To be fair many times it is a husband/wife thing -- wife is delivering using the husband's account, for example.
Yeah, I've come across this plenty of times. When it is food delivery I don't really care, but sometimes a totally different car than shown on the app will pull up to give you a ride and expect you to get in. No thanks, that's a cancellation from me.