The statement is actually true for any vector $v$ in the identity chamber $C$. If you take a reduced expression $w=s_{i_1}\dots s_{i_r}$ and consider $C$, $s_{i_1}C$, $s_{i_1}s_{i_2}C$, $\dots$, at each step, you move to a chamber that is across one more hyperplane from the identity chamber. This moves each point in the chamber by some negative multiple of the positive root perpendicular to that hyperplane. So $v-wv$ will be the sum of a bunch of positive multiples of positive roots.
(It's easy to see that $\delta$ lies in the identity chamber using the fact that Jim mentioned: since $s_i$ permutes the positive roots except $\alpha_i$ and sends it to its negative, $s_i\delta=\delta-\alpha_i$, so $\langle\delta,\alpha_i\rangle >0$.)