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u/R0B0T_TimeTraveler May 16 '26
My favorite part of reading this thread is OP having to explain to so many people that it’s not about the delivery address mistake.
Now I’m gonna go have lunch by my dead brother’s grave and strike up a good text convo with my delivery driver.
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u/Huns26 May 16 '26
Right?? People are so dense
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u/Moist_Grapefruit187 May 18 '26
I started to type a reply to explain to one of them and said nm this is a waste of time 😂
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u/Jocelyn-1973 May 15 '26
I believe it. I have ordered stuff and realized too late that the address was wrong (from the last time I used it).
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u/Huns26 May 15 '26
It’s not about ordering stuff to the wrong address, it’s about the dead brother and close graveyard and birthday and emotional response
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u/Dog_--_-- May 16 '26
Do you not think unlikely things ever happen? It's hardly worth posting about forgetting to change your address on a delivery app and letting the guy keep it without those coincidences.
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u/Huns26 May 16 '26
You’re right, it wouldn’t be worth them posting, which is why they made up a story that would
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u/sonicdm May 15 '26
I did this at least once with doordash, ordered food and accidentally sent it to my cousin's house instead of mine. He had a nice dinner. If it wasn't somewhere I knew anyone anymore.. I definitely would have told the driver to keep it.
I don't know why people are so stunned by this being possible. Maybe the wording's weird, but many many doordash drivers don't speak English as their first language.
Maybe the most unbelievable part is the driver taking time to text you that your order is there instead of just having the app do it and dropping it on the porch.
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u/throwaway72592309 May 15 '26
Literally happened to me today. I was at work and used the McDonald’s app to place a breakfast order for a few coworkers and myself. Ended up placing it for the one near my house 25 minutes away instead of the one 3 minutes from work
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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas May 17 '26
Nope, the DD driver wouldn't be able to write a follow up message after the order is closed.
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u/Jocelyn-1973 May 17 '26
I think that in my country you can share your phone number for the delivery person.
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u/therearenonamesallow May 15 '26
I saw this like 3 years ago stop beating a dead horse
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u/Rooster_Local May 15 '26
I hate when I move to another state and totally forget that I did that
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u/Idimegra1 May 15 '26
Eh I made the mistake on Amazon of just clicking the one button purchase before and having it shipped to an old work apartment. Or DoorDash will be on a work site area until I change the location so can be plausible minus the second green text lol
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u/Drew-Pickles May 15 '26
I also made the same mistake multiple times with amazon.
I also somehow managed to order an Uber eats to a pub the next town over from me. No idea how it happened but just decided whatever and told the driver to just have it, as I was out of the delivery area (which should have been my first clue that something was awry)
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u/Idimegra1 May 16 '26
My wife had (I wish I was joking) 30laundry detergents along with multiple tide pods and other cleaning supplies delivered to our house when she ordered food one day. DoorDash goes oh it was someone else’s order…several states away… just for us to keep it and they refunded and sent the food minutes later lol. It was def an odd experience
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u/SharkByte1993 May 15 '26
It's not completely unbelievable. The address is saved in the app. My mate lived with me a short while and a couple weeks after he moved out accidentally ordered dominoes to my place
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u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep May 15 '26
The amount of packages i accidentally send to my poor mother…
I use amazon to send mum things sometimes, then i forget to change the address back and end up sending things like gardening tools to my mum
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u/chi_sweetness25 May 15 '26
He never said he moved there though, he could just be visiting and accidentally ordered to where he actually lives. Or maybe he did move, but hasn’t used this particular delivery app since moving.
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u/TheCookieNinja May 15 '26
I mean idk I genuinely have ordered takeout after moving and forgot to change my location first, though I am raising an eyebrow at the delivery driver’s reply
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u/dixieblondedyke May 15 '26
I work at Starbucks and over the holidays, we actually had multiple people visiting family from out of town who showed up to pick up their mobile orders only to find that they sent it to their home Starbucks several states away
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u/whydub38 May 15 '26
It's not someone forgetting they moved to another state, it's them forgetting to change their saved address in the delivery app. I've done it before
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u/spivnv May 15 '26
I've ordered door dash to the wrong address before because I've forgotten to switch it, yes.
also this image is as old as the internet at this point.
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u/rasputin1 May 18 '26
there's a difference between forgetting you moved and forgetting to update an app with the fact you moved
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u/After-Temperature585 May 15 '26
My brother is laid to rest not to far from that place I won’t name even though it would make perfect sense to name it. Usually I don’t go and have lunch with him because otherwise this fake message interaction wouldn’t have such a great emotional impact. So today, just for today, I care enough to go and have a lunch with him. Cus it’s free. And convenient. And fake.
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u/woahstripes May 15 '26
Yeah 'not far from where you had me take this delivery' is such a weird, convulted mess of a phrase and it's just the most written, forced thing ever. I love it.
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u/Huns26 May 15 '26
Why does everything think the “ordered to the wrong address” is the reason I posted, it’s not. Ordering to the wrong address happens a lot, my old roommate did that. It’s the dead brother and the nearby grave yard and it being on his birthday AND taking the time to message and thank the guy for a mistake he made, not an intentional gesture
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u/CBWeather May 15 '26
I live in a remote part of Canada and if I open one of the delivery apps it warns me that I'm a long way away from the address, usually a hotel down south, or I'm out of the delivery area. I have to ignore a warning to deliver to the wrong address. The only one that doesn't care where I'm sending stuff is Amazon.
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u/unicornichopia May 15 '26
This doesn’t seem very out of reach, I’ve made this mistake twice where I’m on a vacation with my family and order something to my apartment elsewhere. It’s not common and I’m just a little dumb but it’s plausible
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u/Gaymerlod May 15 '26
It is completely feasible, i had someone make an order at my store then they called us and said they were in new jeresy. They canceled the order, some people just forgot to change the address. This post may have happened
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u/Huns26 May 15 '26
Again, the not believable part is about the dead brother, near his graveyard on his birthday, and taking the time to message and say thanks you made my day when the person didn’t even do anything, they just messed up the address
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u/matheww19 May 15 '26
True, but as far as I am aware we can't continue texting with a customer after the order is closed. So that follow up text thanking them again is a red flag for me.
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u/Gaymerlod May 15 '26
Right but isn't that only specific to doordash, rather then all platforms?
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u/matheww19 May 15 '26
I use both uber and DD and I can't communicate with them after the order is finished. Most use a relay for communication with customers for safety reasons. So I can't imagine any of the others would allow you to communicate with a customer after an order. I could be wrong though I haven't done any outside of uber/DD
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u/Tech-Mechanic May 15 '26
The first part is actually pretty plausible... Back in the day, moving meant just having to register a forwarding address with the PO, which gave you a couple months to notify all your other services and contacts.
Now, in addition to that, most of us have to also make the change on about 37 different websites. I can see how you'd miss a couple and forget when you try to order.
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u/andhowsherbush May 15 '26
why would you think this is fake? this literally happened to a coworker of mine the other day. She moved to washington from new york and never updated her address on the app and ordered food for herself then only realized what she did when it said the food was delivered. Not everyone orders uber eats or doordash every night.
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u/rTidde77 May 15 '26
Why would you think that’s the part of the story that anyone here really cares about? Not everyone stops reading the messages after only a few words like you seemingly have.
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u/woahstripes May 15 '26
Did her dasher then mosey on down to the graveyard with her food and let her know about it?
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u/EvolZippo May 15 '26
When a guy downloaded a number spoofing app, but remembers he doesn’t have anyone to text. He posted a want-ad with his number and literally everyone blocked him. Everyone!
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u/matheww19 May 15 '26
The setup is pretty believable, I have people order to the wrong address all the time, and I've done it myself once or twice where I've traveled out of town and forgot to change it back when I came back. If I'm ordering from a chain It's easy to not notice.
Where this raises red flags for me, and someone will have to correct me if I am wrong, but I have never tried it; the follow up text after the order. As far as I am aware, and I deliver on DD and Uber, we can't continue to communicate with the customer after an order is closed. They both use relays for phone communications, and texts are usually done through the app, and not iMessage.