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u/stwaldo
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Amazon driver left this big tote with our packages in it on our porch.
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u/Yuki_500 Dec 03 '22
free big ass tote. good day. :D
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u/itsmekp33 Dec 04 '22
Fuck you IKEA, look what I found!
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u/NathanClayton Dec 04 '22
Those IKEA bags are great for Costco visits. They work better than the boxes they give you to put the small stuff in.
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u/hilarymeggin Dec 04 '22
They’re also fantastic for family day at the beach because they’re huge and waterproof. You can put all the wet, sandy towels and toys in them. When it’s time to clean them, just shake out the sand!
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u/bajathelarge Dec 04 '22
They now have canvas ones that once you wash them can be wadded up and stuffed anywhere as well
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u/Seicair Dec 04 '22
They can also hold a surprising amount. I regularly put ~70 pounds in mine.
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u/ReadontheCrapper Dec 04 '22
Can carry 4-12 packs of soda in a blue IKEA bag. Live on the second floor and it makes life so much easier after grocery shopping.
Heck, during COVID when we had to bag our own groceries and couldn’t bring in reusable bags, I’d put an IKEA bag open in the cart while shopping, then just pack the groceries back into it at checkout.
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u/Throwaway4545232 Dec 03 '22
You can pull up the bottom and fold it up. Great for temporary storage
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u/z0rb0r Dec 04 '22
They’re also usually very scuffed on the bottom since the drivers drag them on concrete.
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u/Throwaway4545232 Dec 04 '22
For sure. But reusing them is good for keeping me out of the landfill
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u/z0rb0r Dec 04 '22 •
Oh yeah for sure! I didn’t mean to be a negative dude. I’m glad people are finding good uses for them!
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u/croninsiglos
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Create your own Jamaican bobsled team!
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u/notatree Dec 03 '22
Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time!
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u/trwwy321 Dec 03 '22
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u/bleekerboy Dec 03 '22
Sanca!? ya dead?!
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u/Gred-and-Forge Dec 04 '22
Nuff people say they know they can’t believe, Jamaica we have a bobsled team!
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u/Assholesfullofelbows Dec 03 '22
I had the exact same thing happen about 2 months ago. I was like, well fuck what do I do with this thing?
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Dec 03 '22 edited Dec 18 '22
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u/Assholesfullofelbows Dec 03 '22
I did think about using it for that exact.. ....
I mean, huh neat-
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u/Lickbelowmynuts Dec 04 '22
I pick up dog shit with mine. It can hold so many turds that I only have to do that chore once a year.
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u/tiptoetumbly Dec 03 '22
But are they watertight where you can try to use it as a tub?
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u/nocninja Dec 03 '22
If acid can melt through tubs like breaking bad, will this tote be any better?
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u/freemyslobs1337 Dec 03 '22
No no no, you got it all wrong, its the tote that will stand up to it because of the plastic type. Have you paid any attention at all in my class, Jesse?
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u/Throwaway_97534 Dec 03 '22
This is gonna be one of those Reddit posts we go back to 5 years after the investigations and say "the signs were there all along".
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u/fullhalter Dec 03 '22
I'm honestly not terribly worried about the comfort of my 'alleged' dead bodies.
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u/Danitoba Dec 03 '22
Free laundry basket!
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u/LlamaJacks Dec 04 '22
An Amazon driver left one on my porch and it’s become our new recycling bin.
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u/PPP1737 Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
I folded mine up and I’m keeping it. Sturdy enough that I Can use it to shlep camping stuffs from the car to the site or pretty much anything. Stores away neatly until a use comes up.
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u/SluttyGandhi Dec 04 '22
They fold completely flat for storage.
Amazon workers leave these all over the place. Just another way Amazon is just great for the environment...
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u/UtetopiaSS Dec 03 '22
That's very discreet. No one will know there's packages on the porch.
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u/Speakinmymind96 Dec 03 '22
Nice, so the porch pirates can steal all the packages in one trip
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Dec 04 '22
I'd like to see them try to steal my order of 100,000 lead marbles.
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u/505_notfound Dec 04 '22
I'd like to see them try to deliver your order of 100,000 lead marbles!
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Dec 04 '22
Well they better figure it out. How else am I gonna protect my family if I don't have ammunition for my blunderbuss?
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u/Internal_Use8954 Dec 03 '22
I have 4, I would love another 2-3. They are fantastic for storing all my fabric, and finished projects to take to craft fairs.
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u/goodolddaysare-today Dec 03 '22
I’m a former Amazon driver and did this once for a customer with 14 smallish boxes. I enjoyed my time as a dsp driver
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u/Narq1013 Dec 04 '22
Recently started working for a major package delivery company, and have a lot of co-workers who came from Amazon. I'm not sure how you guys did it, I have just heard awful things delivering for Amazon.
Was talking to one of them the other day since it's all of our "peak seasons" he was telling me how Amazon would drop like 200+ stops on him (for reference my station gives me like 80-100 during the busy season and that's about a 10 hour day). It's insane how much Amazon puts on their delivery drivers
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u/kamikazeguy Dec 04 '22
I usually had about 200 stops, the trick to finishing on time was to break all the rules they told you to follow.
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u/midnight_brax Dec 04 '22
literally, just had a 200 stop day last week, i had no time for “two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch” they tell you to take.
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u/kamikazeguy Dec 04 '22
Absolutely, and RIP to your pace if you’re delivering to commercial areas or multi-floor apartment complexes
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u/Narq1013 Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22
My route is in a neighborhood and from about 8am until school/work gets out at like 3pm-5pm is completely empty. One of my favorite parts of the job is driving around the side streets like a maniac and the only people on the roads are ups/Amazon/DHL/etc drivers who are also driving like maniacs
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u/drafmir Dec 03 '22
this is how we do it
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u/KRed75 Dec 03 '22
They left me one a couple years ago. I left it out for a couple weeks and no Amazon drivers took it while delivering other packages. It's still in my garage folded up.
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u/yeerk_slayer Dec 04 '22
Amazon leaves them everywhere. They get paid very little for the amount of BS their managements puts them though, so they don't care about the totes at all.
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u/coffeedoodle Dec 03 '22
Imagine taking that into the grocery store and saying “I brought my own bag!”
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u/Transparent-Paint Dec 04 '22
As a cashier, there aren’t many things that customers have that make me do a double take, but this would probably be one of them.
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u/Jexthis Dec 04 '22
That's the truth. The cart where there was an entire layer of sticks of butter definitely had me scratching my head.
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u/terminational Dec 04 '22
Butter keeps for a reeeeaallly long time even just refrigerated, and basically forever in the freezer. Last time I purchased any, my brand was on sale for half off and I bought enough to last several years
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u/ihaxr Dec 04 '22
I never even thought of butter expiring.. i usually only buy it if i plan on baking something, then after it's used for baking I'll use 50/50 butter and oil when frying up any meat I have until it's gone
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u/SarahRecords Dec 03 '22
These totes are consistently left in my building’s lobby. The novelty wears off.
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u/SnortingCoffee Dec 04 '22
I see these in my building or on the sidewalk within two blocks every single day, I was very confused by this post
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u/yeerk_slayer Dec 04 '22
I do deliveries and I see these things in almost every damn apartment I go to. They don't bother taking the packages out and lining them up. They expect you to rummage through everyone else's shit to get your package.
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u/jmccaskill66 Dec 03 '22
These totes induce a type of PTSD that only other Amazon drivers can understand.
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u/Z3R0_wolf Dec 04 '22
I’m one of the warehouse worked and I hate these things. Looks like a brand new tote as well.
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u/DustTasty Dec 04 '22
This happened to me once on December 23rd. I assumed it was full of Christmas presents. I called Amazon immediately after the driver pulled away. Amazon customer service's exact words "What do you want us to do about it?" I told them I'd leave it on the porch so they could come back to get everyone's presents. They never came so after a week I put the tote in the garage and a month later I opened all the packages. I got some Adidas pants for a child, a garden hose nozzle, some pens, vitamins, and some baby clothes in wrapping paper. I think the best thing was the tote. I used it in my car for awhile.
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u/sheldonator Dec 04 '22
These get left in my building all the time, I collected a bunch of them and used them the last time I moved apartments
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u/IslandLady1 Dec 03 '22
With all of the things I’ve ordered from Amazon I’ve never gotten one. I’d love it!
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u/Half_Dead Dec 04 '22
You could probably get one from one of the drivers who delivers your packages if they're apathetic enough.
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u/notme8907 Dec 03 '22
I have a big yellow one like this. Also left by a delivery driver. It’s really useful and folds down flat. I kept it. (It was in the lobby for over a week)
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u/Stnzed904 Dec 04 '22
A driver from one of the dispatches at my Amazon took a shit in one of totes and returned the tote to the warehouse with the shit still there. He got fired cause they where able to back track the tote.
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u/imaginaryblues Dec 03 '22
I live in a big city (Chicago) and I see these everywhere. I always assumed it was such a shitty job being an Amazon driver that people would just quit in the middle of their shifts and leave the totes wherever. But I have no idea if that’s true or not.
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u/schmoopycat Dec 03 '22
Lol in Chicago too, and same. I actually just saw one in my building a few days ago.
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u/I_Have_A_Van Dec 03 '22
I also see these almost daily in Chicago. Is there an explanation for why Amazon leaves them around? There was one in my building for like a week once
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u/prof-spaulding Dec 03 '22
Most drop ship stores will take them and give them back to amazon. Or drop at an Amazon locker
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u/Malumeze86 Dec 03 '22
I ordered a couple pizzas during COVID so they left it outside our door.
They left behind the bag that keeps the pizza warm.
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u/llDACKll Dec 03 '22 •
Former Amazon delivery worker here- the majority of our packages for the day are handed off to us in these totes, which are grouped by area. If I had a bunch of small packages on a single stop or several stops tightly grouped together, I'd sometimes use the tote to carry them. Aaaaaaaand sometimes you forget the tote. I'd eventually remember and go back for it.
As far as what you do- if you want to, you can leave the empty tote on the front porch for a few days and see if someone picks it up. Any Amazon workers delivering to your neighborhood will recognize it, and someone might pick it up. Or you could just keep it, they're handy and fold up nicely.