Amazon is planting fake packages in their delivery trucks in an effort to catch workers who might be thieves. The strategy was ordered from Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle in response to overwhelming reports of package thefts over the past year. The dummy packages are sent out with fake labels and are usually empty or filled with small paperweights.
Drivers are supposed to be scanning the label of every package in their truck and when they do so on the fake package they get an error message. By protocol the driver should then call their supervisor for instruction, or could return the package to the Amazon warehouse at the end of their shift. Since the bait hasn’t been detected or registered in Amazon’s system, some workers might choose to steal it instead.
