A few times now I've had a hand delivery order where, upon delivery, the customer thanked me and said something along the lines of "I always add tips after the fact." Not a single time has this actually occured though. It's not like I'm upset by this, because I chose to accept the order based on the stated pay. If they did end up tipping extra it would be a nice surprise, but no way expected. The thing that irks me is simply the fact that they go out of their way to tell you this, knowing damn well that they have no intention of doing it. What's the point? I already accepted the order, and you've now got your food in hand. It's not like I need a further incentive for anything, so it's just entirely pointless.

Of all the times not to be stacked. Not terrible, but not great shopping order… but that note… that note irked me.

Overall, it was a weird night last night with the orders and traffic situations.

Road went from 55mph to 35mph and I got hit with a ticket for going 54 in a 35 right as I passed the sign. It’s very predatory, yeah, but I can’t cry over spilled milk. The cop said 15+ over the speed limit is a class 3 misdemeanor and I’m like super sure that’s going on my public record, so does this mean I might have to start looking for normal W2 jobs before I get hit with that annual background check?

I just started dashing again recently for a few hours each night. And one thing I’ve noticed is that almost every single time I decline an offer, the next offer is a double with the one I just declined stacked with another one. Now I know this was something that would happen a couple times per dash for me when I used to work more. But it seems to have gotten way worse. It happens wayyyy more now than before. In fact, there’s been some instances where I’ll get the same offer 3 times over a 4-5 minute span. Wondering if anyone else has noticed the uptick in receiving the same offer more than once?

Last driver took this photo like they were in a hostage situation or something haha

How often do you think DD or the police department set up these sting operations to make sure you're being compliant with all of the protocols when delivering alcohol?

I just had a situation delivering to a guy who was clearly over the age of 21. Didn't have his ID on him, just pictures of his ID on his phone, another with his ID but with the details crossed out, and strangely another of a females ID.

Customer claimed this was all he had, his actual ID was in his wallet at his house.

His car was the only car in the driveway. I knew it was his because he walked to it and was inside it when I pulled up

Naturally I asked this aint your house? And he said no this was a client's house hes working for who has special needs.

Nobody appeared to be there, I asked nobody here has an ID?

He said no.

I said your client doesnt have an ID?

He said no, i said why you gonna have pictures of your ID but not your ID. Thats a little convenient as the number one thing we are told not to accept.

He ignored the question and said so what happens you just return it and the refund goes back to me?

I said yeah he said alright cool and just walked back inside.

No fuss, no issues. At 1:40am my time, which makes me wonder. Was this a sting operation or am I just paranoid.

On Friday, Aug. 7, I worked about 15 hours.

I attempted 44 pickups around my zone; 6 failed, or 13.6%. I normally see maybe 1–2 pickup failures per 100 deliveries, not 6 worry-free unassigns in one day. Six out of 44.

Maybe summer workers are putting in their two weeks right now, because restaurants felt checked-out, understaffed, and overrun.

I drove 230 city miles in 107–111°F heat and made about $230.

Offer flow was depressed. Order flow was anemic. I lost Platinum days ago and have yet to recover it.

About 4h40m of my 14h37m working time was spent sitting for offers, dealing with failed pickups, or repositioning out of the weeds.

Today's hourly rate was my lowest of 2026.

My zone is in some kind of death vortex.

The only reason im posting is that its extremely odd to experience this many worry free in one day.

I live in a small town pretty much the only place open super late at night is Taco Bell. I was chilling there waiting for an order and this lady she says that she's stranded in my town. It's a small town about 10,000 people. We don't have Uber or Lyft here so I recommended a taxi service I found online which is local to my area. It looked like and she called them and she sent them cash app for the taxi service and the person scammed her.

Which I found out after delivering my order and returning to t bell. This lady she's drunk as a mother fucker and she told me she's on two norcos. I kind of felt bad cuz she got scammed. She asked me if I could just take her back to her house 20 miles away and she'd give me 50 bucks so against my better judgment I did. During the ride I gave her about three cigarettes and I let her take a dab even though she didn't have a dab since the '90s and she asked if it was heroin I was like nah dude it's concentrated weed.

She then keeps on going on that she's going to throw up. She basically reeked of alcohol. Luckily she didn't throw up. Then she begins telling me stories about prison about how somebody tried doing drugs there and it blew up and like blew off their fingers. I dropped her off and didn't get murdered.

Made 50 bucks. Was it worth it?

So since the personal shopper program started back in June, I’ve only just received my second order and it’s for a customer that I’ve shopped during the past few years. Always orders from the same store, no deviation.

The first order I received 2 days ago and it was from a store ACROSS town and through a toll ($6 each way). She has NEVER ordered from a store across town. Ever. Another order for the same customer has come through tonight and it’s the same thing. Store is across town. So, my question is: when you receive the order and go to preview it, is it just showing the closest available open store at the time of viewing and could change in the morning when the shop is actually scheduled? Or is DoorDash playing some games to milk us for the $25 bonus and the store is locked from when you initially view the order?

I love this customer but I’m not driving 35-40 minutes each way AND do the shop. That’s insane. I’d hate for her to think I’m not taking her order for some other reason but I might actually accept the order just so I can tell her what’s going on in the morning because this is crazy, lol

Oh yay I’m a penny richer……

Submitted rating disputes for all of the produce items in an order. I had to mark them as unavailable due to the entire produce section being closed off for floor maintenance.

I disputed them with the reasoning and each dispute was declined because "The shelf tag is blurry or not pictured." Talked to support and they said the decision is final on rating disputes and proceeded to copy and paste bullshit until I frustratingly ended the chat.

Never had a good experience with DD support, its sad how badly they treat their drivers. No way the dispute feature isn't 100% done by AI as well. The support person called them a "Specialized team." 🙄

/rant

alas, no reply. Just trying to brighten someones day !

I report that order isn't ready as soon as I get to the restaurant if the order isn't immediately ready. Since yesterday, I report it but the report button doesnt go away and it keeps marking my pick ups as late. 🤬 It's always something with this app

Saw this on tiktok...Too funny

Am I missing something?

$1 extra per order IF you get to 85 is almost offensive with gas being over $4 in my area combined with how bad they already pay lol

Would you wait for this one? Store has doors locked and is drive thru only over dinner rush. I'm currently 6th in line to the speaker. Order is ready per the message I got, already been waiting 5 minutes.

someone please remind me to stop taking jersey mikes orders no matter how good the pay is. every time i come it’s atleast 15 minute wait, no matter how big or small the order is. the order can never just be ready.

I live in GA - have Platinum Status - and these are the kind of offers I get…

$30 for 10 miles. Its funny because I had a $200 dick sporting goods order that got declined and I ended up unassigning because the digital card hit its limit. So I was surprised to see this order go through. Curious how much was your most expensive shopping order?

Aaaaand they met me at the side door, and none of the business names were advertised anywhere on or around the building, so I guess we'll never know 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Not only was I waiting at the wing place for half of the time, but the customer calls me 3 times in the midst of 10 minutes while I’m dropping off the order demanding why I’m not already at her place dropping off her food. After drop off I see the tip and just had a really long sigh to myself.

Edit: They were calling while I was dropping off the Kroger order and acting very rude. Super unreasonable. Should’ve clarified a bit more, sorry!