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Uber threatened to drop a driver from its delivery service after she opened a suspicious envelope she'd picked up for the rideshare app and found it contained illicit drugs, which she then handed to police.
To add insult to injury it appears the disgruntled drug runners have left a one-star review on the driver's account for not completing the delivery on February 16.
The Brisbane driver, who only wishes to known as 'Emma', told Daily Mail Australia that after handing the drugs over to police and explaining the situation to Uber she was warned about 'tampering' with the delivery.
Uber driver 'Emma' said the ride-sharing giant warned her over opening a package that she rightly suspected contained illicit drugs
'I thought their response would be "Oh my god, I can’t believe our service was used for potentially illegal activity, we need to shut down that sender and give all their details to police",' Emma told Daily Mail Australia.
'No, they just turned around and said if someone tells us again that you’ve tampered with their package we are going to restrict your account.
'This incident really freaked me out and their response freaked me out.'
Emma's nasty ordeal began on a Friday night when she turned up at an address to receive a package to deliver.
'The Uber app doesn’t tell you what kind of package it is going to be,' Emma said.
The text from Uber said if there were any similar reports of Emma opening packages in the future she would be dropped from delivering goods
'It just says package pick-up from this address. I’ve done a package delivery before and it was a birthday cake.'
She knocked on the door at the address but those inside knew nothing about the intended delivery.
'I was walking back to my car and this guy came out from another address and he said "Are you Uber?",' Emma said.
The man explained that he hadn't given the address to Uber so didn't know how it had been mixed up.
'He gave me a sealed white envelope with nothing written on it,' Emma said.
'I thought maybe it was cash or documents, so I just put it on the front seat and started driving.'
Her suspicions were not aroused because of the wrong address, which Emma said 'happens all the time', but by the mysterious envelope.
Emma filled out a form to explain why she could not deliver the parcel but got no response from Uber
'I reached over and felt the package and I thought "that does not feel like cash or documents",' Emma said.
'I pulled over and put it up to the light to see through it, so I wouldn’t have to open up.
'It felt suspicious and I thought, "I don’t want to be part of committing a crime".
'So, I opened it very carefully because I thought if I am wrong and it is not something suspicious I will just seal it up and it will be fine.
'There was something rolled up in toilet paper and it was a little zip-lock bag of white crystals.
Emma was profoundly shaken by the discovery.
'I am such a nerd,' she said.
'I have never been near any form of drugs whatsoever, so I wrapped it back up and put it in the envelope and sealed it.
'I was still shaking when I handed the delivery to the cops. I didn’t want it near me. I didn’t even want to touch the envelope.'
Emma also sent a detailed explanation of what had occurred during the aborted drug run
While ringing triple-0 to find the nearest police station Emma grew concerned about
