Local Woman Accidentally Outs Her Amazon Habit After Delivery Driver Invites Family to His Wedding

Skye Waverley | Social Reporter | Sutherland Shire Gazette

16 May 2025

GYMEA BAY - A local woman’s long-running operation to smuggle Amazon parcels into her home unnoticed has spectacularly unraveled after her children excitedly opened a wedding invitation addressed “To the lovely family at No. 12” - from the Amazon delivery driver.

The woman, who requested anonymity but is known to several distribution centres as “Prime Queen,” has reportedly been perfecting covert delivery techniques for years. These include midday drop-offs while her partner is at work, a decoy Myer bag to hide boxes, and an elaborate ruse involving “returns that somehow never return.”

But the illusion was shattered this week when her two young kids burst into the kitchen waving the card. “Mum! We got invited to a wedding! By Paul! The guy with the beard who brings your boxes! We’re going to a wedding!”

Sources confirm the husband, previously unaware that a man named Paul had been at the house more than he had, asked, “Paul who?” to which the kids replied, “Paul from Amazon! He said we’re like family.”

Faced with the impossible task of explaining a parasocial logistics relationship, the woman calmly placed the kettle on and said, “Well, I suppose he’s seen us through a lot... Prime Day, Black Friday, that week we went paleo...”

According to the invitation, Paul the driver is marrying another delivery driver from the next zone, and felt it “only right” to invite the woman and her children, who “have been there through every shift.”

The husband was last seen Googling “how to set up parcel alerts.”

Meanwhile, local couriers are calling this a cautionary tale. “This is what happens when you mix excessive homewares and childhood honesty,” said one driver. “Eventually, your lifestyle arrives - with tracking.”