"the day I quit Amazon delivery". 314 heavy packages to one home, 1 hr 47 minutes to unload

[Demovictory9]

"Note that she is opening boxes as I deliver due to limited space," the text in the video reads. "It took one hour and 47 minutes to deliver 314 heavy packages to this single home."

The shocking amount of deliveries was surprising to viewers, who hypothesized why someone would receive that many deliveries. But the TikTok creator, @willy.ngoran, clarified that there was "an error in the system that delayed the deliveries." He added, "They were to be split between different drivers but it went wrong. I was the last resort."

@willy.ngoran told the Daily Dot that while he still works at Amazon, he is now a dispatcher rather than a delivery driver. He said one of the reasons he posted the video was "to show people what they ignore about the delicate job, as far as un amount of packages and effort drivers sometimes showcase to make these last mile deliveries possible."

"It is true that we get a lot of packages some days but it’s mostly the apartments that make people quit," he added.

He said he "was very amazed" by the support he received after posting the video.

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[DFW]

1. The boxes appear to say "snacks"

What were they planning, having the whole Chinese Army over for afternoon tea?

[Demovictory9]

2. a store? some type of non profit? I was part of a group that purchased in bulk to assemble bags

for homeless. We didn't have THAt many boxes, but there was a lot. we each had our boxes mailed to one person's address.

[DFW]

3. From the photo

It didn't look like there was a home in the area that had room for all those boxes. And there are industrial size containers for larger deliveries. I pity the delivery guy, anyway. 314 heavy boxes is a ridiculous task with which to saddle one man with a delivery schedule to keep.

[honest.abe]

9. That one that says snacks appears to not be an Amazon box.

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All the Amazons are stacked on the right. Judging by their size and the comment about weight I suspect they contain can goods. Probably something to do with food distribution for the needy or homeless.

CORRECTION: After viewing the video.. the lady is opening the boxes delivered and placing the contents on the left side so that one that says snacks must have been inside a larger amazon box. My mistake.

[FuzzyRabbit]

4. I was talking to the postal worker the other day.

She was in her truck, surrounded by packages. She told me that in years past she might deliver 3 packages a day, on a busy day. But now she delivers 30 or more every day, and sometimes 30 or more to the same house.

I must be the only person still going to the store.

[Duppers]

5. I hope folks are RECYCLING the CARDBOARD BOXES.

They represent thousands of destroyed trees.

[Kaleva]

8. I plan on putting mine in the garden.

I have a stack of flattened corrugated cardboard boxes with the tape and shipping labels removed that I plan on placing between the raised rows in my vegetable garden to control grass and weeds.

[Luciferous]

11. I did that with our moving boxes when I put in new beds. It worked really well.

[Kaleva]

13. Yes. From what I've read, it helps the soil, helps garden retain moisture & greatly reduces weeding

[Amishman]

15. I try, and I am fairly certain they just end up in a landfill anyway

Our 'recycling' pickup is done with a regular garbage truck, meaning everything (plastic, glass, metal, cardboard) gets mixed together and crushed by the compactor. I can't imagine that is remotely recyclable after that.

This is very common now from what I hear. We need to build out our recycling infrastructure, many of our recycling programs are a lie and have been for a very long time.

[fescuerescue]

26. That is NOT thousands of trees there

314 boxes would take a fraction of a tree.

But yea she should recycle them.

[Midnight Writer]

24. She's got it made.

I carried mail for 34 years and I doubt I ever had less than 30 packages a day. 50 or more was more typical. During Christmas season, maybe a couple of hundred. I retired before Amazon got so big.

P.S. I had five hernia surgeries during the last six years of my career.

[Sherman A1]

6. Hmmmm

Wondering just what size truck was used? Im thinking 314 packages would have been an awfully tight fit in a standard delivery van…….

Something doesn’t smell right.

[Amishman]

17. It's very possible

I've seen amazon using what look like either P1000 or P1200 freightliner trucks (you know them as the typical Fedex truck size)

A P1000 has just under 1k cubic feet of cargo capacity.

If the boxes are around 2 cubic feet (which would be big boxes), you could definitely fit that many in there, especially of the boxes are of a uniform size and do not have stacking / crush concerns.

[Sherman A1]

19. I agree that this all depends on the size of the truck

The step vans and small packages, it would work. The normal cargo vans we see in the neighborhoods, not so much.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Peak Amazon is a life phase

I went through Peak eBay. eBay made all the money, I got a pile of junk. This is trinket capitalism in another rendition. Addictions can be treated or even cured. Inheriting a household of clutter is often a wake up call.

[Klaralven]

10. The cargo vans have a payload around 3 tons

So the boxes must have averaged around 20 pounds or less.

[NickB79]

12. For some reason I thought about baling hay as a teenager on the farm

And instantly lost most of my sympathy.

[Kaleva]

14. Tossing 50 + pound bales in a super hot haybarn was good times!

[honest.abe]

18. Yeah, I did that too as a teenager.

Hot, dirty, exhausting.... but somehow rewarding to see that massive stack of bales on the wagon.

[Amishman]

20. been there done that, have the mild hernia to prove it

hard work, brutal if you aren't physically prepared for it or try to rush.

[yardwork]

21. But, were you expected to bail a field in 10 minutes?

I think his complaint was that his delivery schedule didn't allow time for this delivery. That's the source of the stress, I think.

[Klaralven]

22. No, but handling 300 bales in two hours would not be unreasonable.

[honest.abe]

28. Its been a long time but I think I was throwing a bale every 15 seconds or so..

with some rest time when the tractor turned around for the next row. We would do this all day. Maybe average 3 bales a minute or 180 bales an hour so your number is about right.

[tanyev]

23. I'm having trouble thinking of a good reason why someone would order that much all at one time.

[fescuerescue]

27. either an addiction. or a business ran out of the home

[tanyev]

31. Yeah, I really wonder if she's reselling a lot of that stuff.

[fescuerescue]

25. So he didn't really quit. He got promoted.

[SYFROYH]

30. I don't understand the issue. I used to deliver packages (not for Amazon tho).

It's a lot easier delivering 300 packages to one resident than 300 individual orders to 300 different residences.

eta: Oh, I see. Amazon didn't take the number of items into account when creating his schedule. That's an Amazon problem, not a resident ordering 300 packages problem.