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by ilikeitdark 969 days ago
Amazon (and other product delivery platforms) drive a bit fast and recklessly in the city I'm in. If these vehicles are quieter now, might be worse, although cutting down on air pollution is a big plus.
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That's because the performance monitoring / # of packages they're expected to deliver is so high, they don't even have time to take bathroom breaks.

Amazon (through its "delivery partners") as a purposeful business model works people so hard they don't stick around long enough to have the seniority to qualify for all the benefits Amazon / the delivery partners advertise.

I wonder how many packages Amazon reckons need to be delivered per attributable death. Someone at that company surely has sat around calculating that value