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Amazon foils plot using phones in trees to get more deliveries

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Amazon appears to have stopped a strange plot that used phones in trees to game delivery route assignments. Contract drivers talking to Bloomberg said that they’re now getting more routes even when they’re miles away from the Whole Foods locations th...

Amazon drivers are hanging phones in trees to get more deliveries

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Amazon’s contract delivery drivers are so desperate for work they’ve come up with a bizarre way to game the system: hanging phones in trees, Bloomberg reports.Like Uber, Amazon Flex lets drivers make deliveries in their own cars. Amazon’s dispatch sy...

Amazon asks delivery drivers to verify their identities with selfies

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Amazon is asking its delivery drivers to take selfies so it can verify their identities using facial recognition. The rules apply to drivers in the Amazon Flex program, through which they make deliveries with their own cars as independent contractors...