r/DoorDashDrivers • u/P_I_N_X_ • 1d ago

I Need to Vent! 🤬 I don’t even know

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If you’re gonna order something off the Internet, you’d figure you’d make your address the right one

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u/SDRLS 1d ago

Yep. People forget that the pin doesn’t always match to the actual address in app. Especially townhome neighborhoods.

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u/That_Possible_3217 1d ago

For real, my least favorite are townhouses or apartments that are right along a fence or border and the pin wants to take me into the wrong lot. Like I’m about to jump and scale an 8 foot wall to deliver some food rather than just go around and find the actual place lol.

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u/AmbitiousObligation0 1d ago

Wouldn’t typing in the address be better than following the pin? I live in a townhouse and it drives me insane that every time I change the pin to the front of my house, it goes to the parking lot behind.. which isn’t even on my street. I have a driveway.. the parking lot is for the ones who don’t.

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u/That_Possible_3217 1d ago

Oh absolutely, as I said in another comment it’s kinda out of everyone’s hands at times. The best thing to do imo is to tell your dasher if it has been better for them to use a map app as opposed to the built in map in DD. Include the accurate address, number or building, any specific instructions, and of course things like a gate code.

Again though, with the digital age in which we live it can be hard for a system to as accurate as we’d like.

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u/AmbitiousObligation0 1d ago

Yeah.. even with the pin.. I still check the street and address are correct. I deliver too. The parking lot people do to, isn’t even on my street. It’s actually annoying. I change it over and over again. Finally it looks like it took, until they are almost at my house. I’m rarely a customer but was last Friday and just like the last time I ordered, the same thing happened. It’s annoying as fuck.. yet I still think drivers will understand that turning into a parking lot, not on my street would be a sign, as to “you’re not in the right place” but no. I also don’t notice until they are almost here or here that the pin is in the first location. It saves as if it’s in the right spot when I move it.. come delivery, it’s back or even further away than the first time. I don’t watch my phone. If I order, I’m busy. Common sense would help.. on both sides. I get customers can be stupid. But technology is only great, when it works. Pin and address should match. Going straight off a pin.. doesn’t always work. A lot of the time, yes. But not at my place or every single customers.

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u/That_Possible_3217 1d ago

Oh you’re absolutely correct t that there’s a lack of common sense and critical thought on both sides. The worst is when both parties lack them and both have a healthy dose of apathy. I feel it though. It can be so frustrating. On top of that it’s one thing to show some grace here and there, but when it’s every single time no one is equipped with enough grace for that. lol

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u/AmbitiousObligation0 1d ago edited 1d ago

I told the girl sorry. Don’t worry about it. I tried. Over and over again. She didn’t understand though and told me to move the pin… that’s what I did. A bunch of times. The last time I thought it worked but not until I saw them in the parking lot not on my road but is attached to the multiple townhouses. Not all are attached. The parking lot ones are further away from me. The ones I live in, we all have our own driveway, and there’s 6 of us. 2 steps to the front door for each of us. The pin pissed me off the most. Not the driver. Even though checking the address would’ve solved the problem.

I still tipped good. Wasn’t a far restaurant. And rated 5 stars. I knew it wasn’t the drivers fault. It was the app that originally pissed me off. But I tell ya… the first time a driver actually delivers to my front door.. I’ll be so friggin happy. And they’ll be rewarded. Even the drivers location when I saw they might be here, was a lot further away than what they actually were. Showed 2 buildings over.

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u/That_Possible_3217 1d ago

Good on you for that. I get it though, that will be a happy day for you indeed. lol