I’ve been driving a few weeks, and yesterday was the most packages and stops I’ve had. I got to a large apartment complex, and I remembered seeing the complex address on an XL overflow box. I repositioned the box towards the door, and when I got to that part of the complex, I realized that XL box wasn’t on any of my upcoming stops. I pulled up the map, and realize I’m on stop #12 and it has me coming back here two more times for multiple other group stops. But it’s stops numbered in the 50s and 80s. I thought about trying to deliver them all at once while I was there, but I realized all of the other packages were buried in totes on the floor of the van underneath more totes and then the overflow piled on top. It would’ve taken forever to try to sort the van, because I’d have to take a bunch of stuff out and then try to sort 3-4 totes just for that complex.

Later in the day, I realized the app made me come back to 2 other subdivions twice. Also separated by 20-30 stops. It felt pretty frustrating how inefficient the routing was, but digging through the packed van to at the beginning of the day wasn’t realistic.

Does this sort of routing happen often? And if so, why? I would think they would have all of the addresses in that complex in consecutive order and in the same tote or the next one. Not totes 1, 5, and 8. When this happens to you, what do you do?