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I can guarantee that these drivers are tracked within an inch of their lives and there is absolutely no allowance for parking anywhere other than the shortest distance to an address.
My understanding, from what I've read (I've not had a chance to speak to an Amazon driver, as I have with some other services) is it's less about the monitoring and more to do with how long they are given to deliver each parcel. This is pushed so, in cities, it can be a few minutes, so they have no option other than to stop the van as close as possible to the address, then sometimes run to the front door and dump the parcel and get straight out again. Rinse, wash and repeat.
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It's this (although not so cut and dry) and it's also the fact that you're doing this 200 times a day so a small inconvenience to the eyes of the onlooker means you're walking twice the distance over the course of an already very physically active day, day after day.