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Delivery automatisation, need an advice Hello! We’re looking into ways to automate last-mile deliveries for online stores. We have US wide presence, Lisbon and Porto in Europe. What we have now: – Connected main delivery platforms (Uber, Bolt, etc.) and bunch of local providers. So there is always an option to choose the most suitable carrier for every moment. – More options help to f…

Bulk Santa Session Delivery? Last year I did photos for a fundraiser taking pictures of 115 families with Santa. I used a whiteboard and Google form to connect photos to emails. I set up individual galleries for each family and emailed them directly. Not going to lie, it was an insane amount of work. In this situation with at least 100 different families would it be okay t…

DoorDash Can Track Your Delivery Person’s Driving Behavior DoorDash is rolling out a new feature that follows in the footsteps of other tech companies that use drivers for business. The company is now going to track its drivers driving habits — all in the interest of safety, it says. It’ll primarily be able to track sudden acceleration and hard braking. Read more…

LPT: Turn on a light for the food delivery person this helps the driver see your house number, and helps them see where they’re going. i thought this was common sense until i started door dashing last week additional LPT, the more you tip the faster your food will go to you submitted by /u/UnderestimatedIguana

A day in the life of a delivery robot Walk down Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, and you might stumble on something that seems out of place: a robot, about waist high, with headlights shaped like blinking eyes and its own name stenciled on the side. These robots are owned by Serve Robotics, a company that spun out of app-based delivery service Postmates about six years ago. For over a …

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Amazon plans to deploy delivery drones in the UK and Italy next year Image: AmazonDespite running into obstacles in the US, Amazon is planning to expand its Prime Air drone delivery program to two additional countries. Amazon announced today that it will soon make drone delivery available for Prime members in Italy and the United Kingdom — in addition to expanding to one more yet-to-be-named US city. The new Prim…

Amazon says its robots will speed up delivery and definitely not replace humans These bots move shelves around so humans don’t have to bring around the forklift. | Image: AmazonAmazon is rolling out expanded robotics operations at fulfillment centers built on updated sorting machines, robotic arms, and its Roomba-like mover bots. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon’s latest inventory processing system, which the com…

These Are the Best Meal Delivery Services for Busy Families With many parents regularly going back into the office and kids back in school for the year, home life is largely back to its normal, hectic self. From getting to and from work to running kids to soccer practice, helping with homework, and putting a (healthy) meal on the table night after night feels like a pipe dream. Read more…

Domino’s Pizza: Medium 2-Topping Pizza Free w/ $7.99+ Qualifying Order (valid for delivery or carryout) Domino’s Pizza is offering a *Medium 2-Topping Pizza* for *Free w/ $7.99+ Qualifying Online Order*, valid for delivery or carryout. Thanks to Community Member *worldofcolor* for posting this deal….

Tesla missed its Q3 target for the Cybertruck delivery event Tesla CEO Elon Musk alongside the Cybertruck at its 2019 launch event. | Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP via Getty ImagesTesla didn’t end up holding a delivery event for its Cybertruck in the third quarter of 2023 as CEO Elon Musk had hoped. “We’re anticipating having delivery event, a great delivery event probably in Q3,” Musk said in the …

Mistaken Amazon delivery — some sort of scam? We received a bed mattress from Amazon, addressed to us. We never ordered it. We called Amazon and they said just keep it. We are contacting friends/family who have sent us gifts to us via Amazon before to see if someone might have accidentally used our address but so far no hits. Is this potentially some sort of scam? There is some time sensiti…

Judge Affirms Pay Raise For Food Delivery Workers in New York Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub had challenged the new pay standard, which would require them to pay gig workers about $18 per hour to start.

Food Delivery Robots Record Camera Footage To Send To The LAPD: Report Those food delivery robots you see may be doing more than just bringing someone their Chipotle order. 404Media reports that the company that operates the robots is allegedly giving video footage to the LAPD for use in criminal investigations. Read more…

LPT REQUEST: How to stop ordering fast food delivery I make a decent salary. Top 95% of my country. I have this compulsive need to save money. 15% of my salary goes to investments. 35% goes to living expenses. I find myself constantly ordering food. When I feel lazy and hungry, then I buy food. At the end of the month I am left with maybe 10% of my salary and then it is close to pay day, then I b…

Instacart Was All About Grocery Delivery. No Longer. As it prepares to go public next week, Instacart shows that one secret to making money as a gig economy company is to become an advertising company.

LPT: longtime New York Times home delivery subscriber? Chat with them for 5 minutes to get a substantial, permanent price reduction I know a longtime subscriber of the NYT who got their weekly cost cut by like 40% (plus a temporary promo cutting it even further) with just a quick chat through the website or app. The NYT regularly charges longtime subscribers significantly more than the standard rates for new ones, even after promos expire. If you chat with them, they’ll redu…

How to Tell If That Package Delivery Text Is a Scam Consumerism today looks very different than it looked 10 years ago. Most people wouldn’t head out to a store to, say, buy a water bottle—they’d just order it on Amazon or some other online store. This means that many American households, at any given time, have at least one order pending delivery. Unfortunately,… Read more…

FAA clears UPS delivery drones for longer-range flights Image: UPSUPS delivery drones are now allowed to fly longer distance flights beyond the sight of ground operators, the Federal Aviation Administration revealed in a press release on Wednesday. This is the kind of move that opens the door for drone delivery companies like Wing, FedEx, and Zip to deliver packages across a wider area and service mo…