Could be because they can make life easier for you if they know, or just fun
I've been driving for Amazon for a few weeks now and here's what I got
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We only see delivery instructions once we park by your building, so telling us which streets/gates to use on the way is useless.
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Also, we lose access to them once we finish the delivery (basically right after we leave the package on your doorstep) so if you for some inexplicable reason have an INTERNALLY locked gate, have the code/button somewhere clearly visible because otherwise we can get stuck (like i was for a bit yesterday)
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All that said, you can really make them useful by being clear and specific about things. If the keypad to open the gate is hidden behind some shrubbery, let us know. If it's a confusingly laid out apartment complex, tell us which way to turn as we exit the elevator because you could be the only person with delivery on that floor and we don't want to waste time walking to the wrong end of the building
When I delivered pizza there was this one snooty gated community that I learned the hard way didn't have a keypad combo at all. The only way in OR OUT of this place after like 5pm was to use a fob, The first time I delivered there, someone had just pulled up to and opened the gate so I just tailed em into the complex. After delivering the pizza, I hopped back in my car and drove up to the gate only to learn I was stuck. After a few minutes of disbelief, I went back up to the apartment I'd just delivered to. Of course, now they weren't answering the door, despite knocks and doorbell rings and a very loud television. Must've tried off and on for 15 minutes. Eventually I just sat in my car idling near the gate for like 50 minutes while the 3 other orders I was supposed to be delivering congealed in my backseat. Eventually another resident buzzed themselves in and I quickly drove out the entrance.
This was before the age of cell phones so when I showed back up to the store an hour and a half after taking 4 orders, the owner, despite himself being a complete fuckup, gambling addict, alcoholic, acted like I had quit. He accused me of all sorts of transgressions from having a drug problem to being lazy or stupid. When I tried to explain, he did not believe me. "I don't want excuses" he kept saying. I managed the requisite amount of groveling amd kept my job but only just.
For subsequent orders at that complex, I'd park on the street and scale the walls, balancing the pizza bag as best I could.
God this is miserable, fuck those scumbags pretending not to be aware of you, fuck your shithead boss and fuck all the assholes who continued to order delivery while living in this dumb place.
LMFAO that sucks but also damn irl spiderman pizza
Sad to report that that is still a thing. I tailed a car into a tiny parking lot that I couldn't leave any other way because of low clearances, and the gate didn't automatically open when approached from inside, so I did my deliveries while dispatch tried to figure something out. The inside of the building was a fucking labyrinth and literally looked like something out of Condemned. Eventually I got back to the van and dispatch hadn't figured anything out, but luckily another car came in right as I was getting back to the van so I quickly followed it out. Hope I never get that building again.