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Re:Amazon Flex by bitdivision on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @12:10PM (#10297309)
DPD in the UK do this now. The morning of your delivery you get a text message giving you the hour your parcel will be delivered, and a link to rearrange delivery or to track the driver's current location.

To my mind, their system far outstrips the other couriers.

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Re:Amazon Flex by d_theorist on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @12:59PM (#10297637)
Yeah. I had a delivery from them the other day. I could see a map showing exactly where the driver was at any time. Granted, it didn't auto-update, but whenever I reloaded the page it gave me an updated location, and told me where I was in the queue.
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Re:Amazon Flex by petercooper on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @02:32PM (#10298465)
If you use Chrome DevTools, you can get a curl query that will keep grabbing the latest JSON from the tracking. We rigged it up with a check every minute and had it send us a Slack notification when the delivery was under a mile away :-)
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Re:Amazon Flex by dasboth on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @05:52PM (#10300005)
That's a lovely bit of hacking! :)
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Re:Amazon Flex by d_theorist on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @05:26PM (#10299764)
Nice!
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