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When Sarah first read that Amazon delivery drivers were urinating in plastic bottles in their vans rather than take a break, her reaction surprisingly was one of envy.
“Lucky men, that’s what I thought,” she says. It is not so easy for her, and other female delivery drivers. “We can’t pee in bottles, can we?” she says.
Instead, she had a different tack when handling huge bundles of deliveries with little time to spare. “Just try not to drink water.”