'Don't come out to greet me': Some Amazon drivers beg customers to stay inside during deliveries as they are pushed to the front lines of the coronavirus crisis
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One driver said customers should refrain from opening their doors during deliveries. "If they see us and want to wave, that's fine," she said. "But for their safety and ours, it would be best for them to wait until we leave."Delivery workers' jobs have become more critical than ever as online orders surge amid worries over the coronavirus pandemic.
Asked if there's anything Amazon customers could be doing to help them, all four requested that customers stop greeting them during deliveries. "They don't know what we have because we are traveling so much, and we don't know what they have," she said.
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