Amazon sets creative traps to catch pilots who fly packages – BGR

According to the National Retail Federation, losses due to theft and fraud cost retailers nearly $ 50 billion in 2017. Given the magnitude of this problem, it is not surprising that a large sales company Internet retail, such as Amazon, has more than its share, but you are not aware of the delays that Amazon is trying to put into it.

To put a brake on the drivers that use packages, the company often inserts dummy packets (which can be empty and can also contain a random object) to feed the many commands a driver needs to load. As the packets are false (because they are a trap to deter), the actual label presents an error message when scanning.

"If you return the package, you are innocent. If you do not, you're a thug, "said Sid Shah, former director of DeliverOL, a courier company that delivers parcels to Amazon. Internal business.

Another source told BI that the guidelines for this practice came directly from Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. "It's supposed to be a trap," said this anonymous person, "to check the integrity of the driver."

By BI, "This is how the practice works, according to the sources:

"During deliveries, drivers scan the labels of each package they deliver. When they scan a fake tag on a dummy package, an error message will appear. When this happens, drivers can call their supervisors to solve the problem or keep the package in their truck and return it to an Amazon warehouse at the end of their shift.

Since the package displays an error message when it is scanned, it is thought that a potential thief might decide to take it, because the error message means that the package does not technically exist in the sprawling network. Amazon.

This is certainly a creative way to try to stop the internal robberies – which, again, are more important than a single problem related to Amazon. The 2017 survey by packaging company Shorr, for example, found that more than a third of those surveyed said they had been robbed.

Although Amazon does not put any type of figures on its own losses related to theft, it is likely that it is not a weight loss since the company goes in this direction. The size of the company's deliveries is another clue. Last year, for example, Amazon reported delivering more than 5 billion packages – only to members of its premium subscription service.