Delivering for Amazon Flex?

[Gilberto de Piento]

Anyone tried it? It's supposed to be a cross between delivering for ups and driving for Uber.

[jennypenny]

I know someone who's doing it. They said the warehouses are really disorganized and slow people down. If I understood correctly, they also pay based on how long they think it should take to deliver the items, not how long it actually takes. She said sometimes the '3-hour' shift can take 4 or 5 hours because of warehouse issues, traffic, and weather, but you only get paid for 3.

Maybe the problems are location specific so YMMV.

[jacob]

I've received a few deliveries which I suspect might be from [that vector]. An unmarked car at irregular hours that just drops the package at the porch and doesn't ring the doorbell (unlike USPS or UPS). Overall, they project an amateurish feeling to delivering.

[classical_Liberal]

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[Gilberto de Piento]

If you are interested in this type of thing...

No, just curious. I did briefly have a paper route as a kid and I think I have deliveries out of my system unless someone wants to put up the cash for a "Smokey and the Bandit" type one last big job and then I retire operation.

Based on the cars I see driving around, delivering food for one of the app-dispatched uber-like intermediaries is also popular.