Deliveries delivered in random order...

[u/Snoo_78896]

Tonight when we ordered our dinner we could see the delivery driver on the main road to our house (1/2 mile away if that), made a U turn and the app changed from 'your the next stop' to the driver has another stop. We watched the driver go in the complete opposite direction, 15 mins away, from our house. Why was he not able to drop off the order when he was already so close to our home? I used to drive for Uber years ago and have had this happen to me when I was delivering food. It's such a waste of time and gas. I stopped working for Uber and worked for the competition doing rides. My question is why does Uber do this to their delivery drivers and customers?

[u/Traditional-Share657]

Driver received an add-on and thought that they could do it after dropoff as the next offer. But smart drivers would be able to tell the difference between an add-on vs next offer, newer drivers or ones that don't pay attention to the + will fall for this trap.

[u/gypsy_guru_87 → u/Traditional-Share657]

Or it’s not a trap and the other offer was really good and we’re out here to make money. Plus if you accept multiple orders, you’re protected from bad ratings. I’d like to say I care about getting people’s food hot to them and I would prefer if they didn’t do this but given a choice between making extra money and getting someone’s food there hot I’m gonna choose the money every time. Granted, most of the add-ons are crap, but not always.