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After reading more about how these delivery companies function, we stopped using Door Dash a few days ago. We found it very convenient during the pandemic, but we like our local restaurants and we thought we were helping them out by ordering delivery pretty often. So now we just order it as take-out and then we go pick it up ourselves. Screw Door Dash.

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We came to the same conclusion a couple weeks ago. As a bonus, you're eliminating a person/environment from the loop (the delivery driver & their car), thereby reducing your Covid-19 attack surface.

Edit: I have also both read about & seen firsthand food delivery drivers with someone else in the car. It's almost certainly someone from the same household, but still, that's potentially yet another unknown, potentially untraceable person in the loop.

I've had amazon deliveries where it appears the whole family was in the car. Kind of heart breaking to think that a family of 4 has to drive around so I can get my AA batteries same day. We need drone deliveries.

Can I choose option C? :). I don't want drones buzzing around my neighborhood. I am 100% willing to pay for professional delivery drivers.

To be fair, I guess, the days of random people driving junky old compact sedans filled to the roof with Amazon packages seems to be gone in my area. All the Amazon deliveries are now done by a guy driving a large Sprinter van painted glossy gray with Prime written on the side.

I'm in Canada so we don't yet have the Amazon branded delivery drivers. In my city, many Amazon packages are delivered by a company called Intelcom. It's people driving around their own cars, delivering packages.

Not for nothing, but more than drone deliveries, we need to make sure families like this have access to daycare for their kids.

That's an interesting point. You might be able to argue that subsidizing day care - particularly if you could bring higher standards/efficiency along for the ride - could have a greater economic impact than subsidizing college. It would certainly win out in short term effects. [Although I do think most of a bachelor's degree should be attainable from home for little to no cost.]

When my parents brought me to Canada, my dad briefly worked as a pizza delivery driver and me and my mom would often ride with him just to keep him company. Not sure if that's the case here, but they might just be spending time together.

> We need drone deliveries.

Yes, obviously that will solve the problem that family faces.

I've seen plenty of couriers with their families inside riding around with them delivering food. Sometimes just a guy and the younger son? who hops out, picks up the food, and the dad drives off to deliver the item. It makes me sad.

Friend of a friend has the same issue, works for Instacart or one of the grocery delivery services. With their kids in the car. And they spend their days waiting in grocery store parking lots as that maximizes their throughput.

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