Amazon's push: Employees and drivers say an overworked system is lax on safety

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The number of times I've been cut-off or nearly run off the road by someone driving an Amazon delivery van is one too many for me to not question the real value I'm getting from Amazon Prime.

I get it, people have to make a living. But please do it in a way where I don't die because some idiot decided to endanger others for $11.50 an hour.

We used to get virtually all packages via USPS, with the occasional one via UPS. Maybe one late package a year.

Amazon's logistics system now delivers probably 25% of orders late to us. I used to complain and get a month's extension on Prime each time, but it happens enough now it's not worth the argument.

I had similar experiences before switching to Walmart.com - a combination of Amazon getting worse and Walmart getting better along with fewer supply chain issues and no monthly fee for 2-day just pushed me over the edge.

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