Amazon Delivery DriverFired For Going The Extra Yard

TMZ ^ | June 24, 2026 | staff

[xxqqzz]

This Amazon delivery wasn't exactly Prime service ... unless driving over a customer's neatly manicured front lawn is now part of the membership perks.

Footage out of Corydon, Indiana, shows an Amazon delivery driver completely bypassing the driveway and instead taking a direct route straight across a freshly cut lawn to the front porch, leaving huge tire tracks carved through the well-manicured grass.

What's even wilder is how unfazed the driver appears -- casually hopping out, dropping off the package at the front door, then reversing right back across the lawn like it's no big deal.

The homeowners say they were stunned when they reviewed their security footage and discovered exactly what caused the damage.

Amazon spokesperson Leigh Anne Gullett tells TMZ ... "We hold delivery partners to high standards, and the actions shown in this video are clearly unacceptable. We've connected with the customer to make things right, and the delivery partner is no longer delivering Amazon packages."

Any landscaping services hiring?!?

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[xxqqzz]

One of them of course. Maybe his GPS system told him it was the most direct route.

[Dr. Sivana]

Maybe his GPS system told him

I believe it was a nine-months pregnant she.

[lee martell]

When this was first reported, the writer of the article made a big deal of adding that the Delivery Driver happened to be ‘heavily pregnant’. I guess it didn’t matter.
If you’re so very pregnant that you can’t walk around a lawn vs over it, that’s when you stay home for a few weeks.

If Maternity Leave is not offered, get creative:
Use Sick Pay + Mental Health Days + Vacation Days,
but waltzing across somebody’s lawn is not alright, it’s disrespectful.

[frank ballenger]

RE: tire tracks all across that lawn...

Crosstown Traffic
by Jimi Hendrix.

...You jump in front of my car when you,
you know all the time that
Ninety miles an hour, girl,
is the speed I drive.

Crosstown traffic...
You’re just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.
Crosstown traffic, I don’t need to run over you
Crosstown traffic, all you do is slow me down.
And I’m trying to get on the other side of town.

I’m not the only soul who’s accused of hit and run.
Tire tracks all across your back, uh-huh, I can see you had your fun.

But darling, can’t you see my signals turn from green to red
And with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead.

[frank ballenger]

Did they say this was a “pregnant person” or “our neighbor with a uterus”?

Hard to keep up.

[Jonty30]

There seems to be a driveway there, so there really isn’t an excuse.

[lee martell]

That’s a very good question. Every so often, some reporter sneaks that silly description in. In my opinion, both terms sound somewhat degrading and pompous, or as my parents would have said “Hoity-Toity”.

Just like using the term
Latinx instead of Latino, even though Hispanics have repeatedly said they do not like that made up gender neutral term
Latinx.

[Leaning Right]

> If Maternity Leave is not offered, get creative… <

I read elsewhere that this driver was classified by Amazon as an independent contractor. Meaning she gets no benefits. No maternity leave, no sick days, no vacation days.

[sauropod]

One of my favorite Jimi songs.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

The video is a head scratcher - who delivers Amazon packages using a Ford Focus that would hold maybe 6 similar sized packages tops? The grass is crushed down but not torn up - will probably be good as new in a day or so (not that it excuses driving on it) - the car isn’t that much heavier than a good riding mower / tractor. An actual delivery van would have done way more harm. I’m smelling clickbait here.

[WoofDog123]

some amazon deliveries are done by gig workers (1099s) in their own car. that has to be the case here, though what on earth she was thinking is open to question.