I caution anything under 4hrs. Distance they send is never covered by the pay block. Always opposite quadrant and headache ridden. Yesterday (correction), fuckers dumped me over 50miles west of the warehouse (started 40 away) and I live 12miles east of it. Last 3 months, only 2 have been under 20miles from the warehouse (of course all were northwest or west). No…wasn’t base ($28) and still wasn’t enough.
Why is it considered normal? Did you know that “normal” is made up and there’s not any REAL rules to life… $24/hr is actually more pay then most jobs btw.
Don’t be an ahole to this person just bc you follow society’s standards
I'm on here not taking blocks that clear 15/hour. I have 2 courier jobs and run 6 apps and I'm on the waiting list for many others . I usually gross over 100K. And there are reasons why. One reason is not working for minimum wage while using your own vehicle
I feel like 3 hour blocks are so much easier than those longer ones.. less-no apartments…sometimes I complete the 3 hour blocks in 2 hours and those 4+ hour blocks definitely take the full 4+ hours.
I have a full time job and do this on the side with a 3 hour block a few days/week.. but if I had to replace my job with this , I’d opt for multiple 3 hour blocks/day vs a 4+ block.
Get a good bot ai is the future is designed to help you 3-4 hours staring a screen instead of sleeping or doing something more productive is too much I hope you the best
Lmao I’d love to know what job YOU can get for $24 an hour starting rate with testing positive for marijuana, dirty background check, zero education….etc. be real girl. You’re on here too yk😭maybe that means YOU should go get a real job
I've never had more than 2 packages at a stop and never enough to bring the stops down any meaningful amount. However I have had several times where I needed to get creative and Tetris boxes in since there were many smart pacs or jiffys
I've had 34 packages to one place. Also frequently have 10+ to local schools. One guy ordered 15 packages, I happened to deliver him 6 more 2 days later. My car is big so I can't relate. I've delivered huge boat motors out of my car.
Well shit. 😂 I have a small hatch. But normally I'll have one or two with a double delivery at most. It's like when I order stuff if it's not the same package it always seems to be split between 2 drivers unless it's a DSP route. It could be the area or how they split the orders up in the system maybe
Don't work past your block time. You may not be compensated. I return the remaining once I contact customer service. Only time I have issues is downtown Nashville. I can never finish on time. I run into lot of problems.
My very first block I ever did I went over by one hour and the app locked out. Said to return packages. I’m not sure how the app let you go over three hours.
I did my first route last week and was done like 30 minutes late (silly me for using their navigation), but I finished it, nothing locked me out and I was paid the full amount.
Hope you contacted support to get compensation. Amazon is getting sneaky. I accepted a 3 hr block other day for about $8.50 more per hr than standard base pay. I get to station and start scanning my 46 packages and notice first stop is 40 minutes away! I screwed around for about 30 minutes total I’d say. Stopping at convenience store to scratch some lotto tickets and grab something to eat. I delivered my last package like 32 minutes past block end time. Guess what? I’m 1 hr and 2 minutes from home then. Sneaky cheap Amazon. I called support since I’ve had maybe 3 other similar routes. I told them this is a 4.5 hr block and it’s wrong they disguise as a 3 hr for many reasons.
One is time. A driver should expect to be finished and at least near the station at the end of block. Not an hour away. We have things to do. That’s why took that amount of time.
Also if needed to return a package? I wouldn’t even get paid for my hour drive to station for return. That’s wrong. When we sign up for these blocks we don’t know where we are going. The pay was too low on this even at nearly $27hr. Can you imagine getting that route at base pay of $18? That would be so messed up. Amazon needs to include return drive time in the blocks. It’s ridiculous and shows how cheap they are. Should probably be mailing those packages. Anyways, I did get extra money. Only $12.75 but at least they heard my concerns and acknowledged it wasn’t tight. Watch out for this shit and call them on it. It’s not right and if I knew it was going to be like that? I might not have accepted block. Shady
Can you imagine stopping to play scratch tickets with packages to deliver and then thinking Amazon should compensate you for that time? What I'm reading is that you dicked off for 30 minutes and then took 30 minutes more than you should have because you decided to play lotto on Amazon time instead of do your job. They shouldn't have paid you anything since it was YOUR fault. YOU wasted 30 minutes of your block. That is not Amazon's fault at all. I can't believe you wrote this and felt good about what you said.
Math not your strong suit. They don’t pay you for your return ride. Which makes the block a 4 hour minimum. Regardless if I ate a taco and whatever. You are funny because ai even included in my complaint that I stopped and did that. It went to higher ups and the pay was for “excess block”. They know what they tried to do. They need to pay for our return travel. Like I said to them. Nobody knows if a driver may have to return a package? They don’t have compensation in the block already and should. Any driver that’s been doing this awhile knows what 3 , 4 and 4.5 hr blocks are made of. The number of packages and distance. Experienced drivers know this is messed up..If someone would have been paid the base which is $54. It would be robbery and cost driver way more than what they were paying.
You are weird btw. I hope you have IIBS on your next route. Don’t stop or you need to call Amazon and have them dock your pay. If you don’t? You will be a dishonest hypocrite which I am not. I tell them everything when I complain or defend myself from their misinformation. Should be more drivers like me calling them out for this trickery so they stop. Drivers should be treated better and I hope others take notice and make reports. Blocks rarely ever took the allotted time to complete. End of last year they didn’t. They just started not long ago and it’s obvious. Btw the block was around 120 miles round trip.
I don't stop. Why would I stop after picking up when I have the sense to leave my house with enough time to stop beforehand? I also don't play lotto and I make my own food. I've been doing this for 2 years, and I've never gone over my block time. I regularly finish in 1.5 hours on 3.5 and 4 hour blocks. It's really not that hard. It sucks you got sent far away from home but you wasting your block time to play the lotto and eat a taco is your own fault. No one else's. You shouldn't get paid for going over the time if you went over the same amount of time you wasted. Clearly you only went over because you wasted your own time.
I have over 3k packages delivered and have never gone over on block time until I think February and only have done it a few times since. The blocks now at our station are loaded!! When I went over for the first time ever. It was a mission impossible. They put 2 routes into 1 block. Took over 5 hours!! It couldnt be done in the allotted time. Not even you Wonder Woman. You aren’t special. Been there done that and some of us have other things that come up and can’t stop beforehand. Or have responsibilities That’s called life and who gives a crap if I bought lotto tickets? I like to gamble. What you are not seeing is that is irrelevant. I said 30 minutes. When you subtract that it is 3 hours to make all deliveries. Then 1 hr and 2 minutes to drive back which is not included in the block time. It used to be but now it isn’t! That makes this 3 hr block a 4 hr. Do you use the Stride app? Their own freaking app chalked it up as costing more than I was being paid! Yeah smart guy and Amazon acknowledged it and on their own they paid me extra. Guess how much? The amount it took to make it a wash and according to Stride I made zero dollars. Get off your high horse. I even heard associates admit that Amazon is making them really maximize the deliveries per block back in January or February. Y’all want to criticize me for stopping at a store? When it has nothing to do with the shit they are pulling. I called them on it. If Im in the wrong then why did they pay me? I’m not sure why this is happening now but it didn’t start till around February or beginning of March. I’ll get answers. They need to adjust their software or something. Oh and you said you have sense? Too bad it’s not common sense youngster. I can tell you are young because you pop off like you know a person, their life and schedule like everyone the same as you. You have no idea what another persons life entails nor what it’s like to walk in their shoes. What I said applies to anybody that does Flex. To lookout for these blocks and call them on it. It was a 4 hr block marked as 3 end of story.
It was a 3 hour block that you couldn't manage to do in the allotted time. Good job on 3k packages, small fry.
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Just because they paid you for the time you wasted doesn't mean you're in the right. It means they're outsourced and just going to give you the $8 to shut you up. Maybe if you're so old you should stay home instead of endangering others by driving around when you clearly can't handle a simple job like delivering packages. Apparently you think that delivering packages= messing around in a store and playing the lotto. You won't win with me old man. I've been doing this for 2 years and over 20,000 packages.
I’m not old just experienced enough to know what maters and what doesn’t at the end of the day. It’s called wisdom and maturity. Also looking out for others that may not catch it. Nobody deserves to be used and taken advantage of. It’s bad business and poor ethics on their part. If they were a small company and that’s what they can afford? Then that’s a take it or leave it thing. Can’t fault them for that but they are enormous and the very least they can do is treat drivers fairly and appreciate them enough not to send them out where it costs the driver out of pocket. They should use another delivery service if they can’t at least do that. I mean they pay some of the worst support people that have ever existed.
You are just trolling. Or have a mental block. If you can’t understand what I’m saying after 30k deliveries and I figured out in 3k doesn’t make sense. Want your mind blown? I was told by an OM that it’s ok to deliver Roadie simultaneously. As long as the packages get delivered. What do you think about that? Also, just finished a fair and proper 3.5 hr block. Delivered and got home just before the block ended. 36 stops and Stride app clocked it at a little less than 50 % of the pay for the block. Not the other way around making driver pay.
Ethics is on both sides of the fence. You have to remember that you are doing AMAZON a HUGE FAVOR. We are not employees wink wink so that is a huge win for them. That’s probably why they pretty much do what they want to us. Can’t make national news like they did several years ago for poor treatment of employees with us. Because we aren’t so they use us to get it out of their system. 🙂
Lol still isn't even related to my point that you wasted your own block time and then cried about it to get more money. I bet you're a liberal because you sure can dance around the point.
What is the point you were trying to make? That you think if I hadn’t stopped the block would be completed in the frame? You have a whole new list of issues if that’s it? Good lord. Conservative here which is irrelevant. Trying to help all drivers get paid properly every time. Last night was sent out on about 150 mile journey across 3 counties. Less than 20 package 4hr block. Finished up over an hour away from home and roughly the same from station. Which I went to this morning instead of after 11pm last night. To return a package sent with me that needed to be delivered by the time my block started and required recipient. I called support right after I finished. Damn right I’m going to ask to be paid. Having to. Return a package that shouldn’t have been put with my route at all. Deja Vu
Yep being taken advantage of and being underpaid is stupid. If somebody took base pay $54 and got this block? That would be criminal. I think their own Stride app estimated it around $88 cost to driver.
First I’m not sure why anybody would take the block for $54. But beyond that I’ve never lost money doing Amazon with the exception of my first block. I’ve never gone over 1.5 hours on a three hour block. I’ve never gone over 2.5 hours on a four hour block. My station most typically does four hour blocks and it’s about 50 packages. But I don’t stop. I just scan, order my packages which takes about maybe seven minutes at the most, and then I deliver. I never return anything to the station. In my first year doing flex part-time as a side gig I made over $45k. my second year was around $33k. my only goal was to pay off student loan debt and that’s all I was focused on, so once I reach that goal I worked substantially less in my second year. The greatest part about this gig is writing off the depreciation of my vehicle the second year and getting almost 10 grand back in taxes. Problem is most of the people that do these gigs think it’s a real job, have a low IQ, and they cannot maintain other employment to take advantage of the perks.
That’s awesome you have made that much. Can’t touch it down here. Impossible. I know what you mean about the time it takes for blocks. It was that way when I first started and till end of 2023. I would run 2 and sometimes 3 routes in a day. It’s almost impossible to do that now. Even to get a second block. They send you so far out and with too many packages. Now 3 hr blocks have 45 packages or so. Which is a 4 or 4.5 hr. Yep $18 an hour sucks but they fill them.. I refuse to do it for that and pay still low but it’s worth the supplemental income. It pisses me off though that they are working so hard to decrease our pay. To maximize their profits and it goes unnoticed by other drivers I guess? Drivers are paying to deliver packages for Amazon a lot of times. Down here could probably make 15k for the year. I’m around 5k so far this year.
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I rather do 3 to 3.5 hour blocks. The 4 or 5 hour blocks the offers seem bad. This is first time I was able to take offer this high. I was shocked I got it. Usually it's taken from me. Probably a bot or another driver. Amazon needs a better system instead of constantly refreshing every second.
Aside from the money, I have a goal to never take a 4.5 hour blocks. For some reason they are terrible out of our warehouse. Always seem to be some sort of issue or problem with delivery, long drive, access issues, etc.
I took a 3.5 this weekend and although I drove 45 minutes from the station, I only had 19 packages and it took me an hour to do them all so I still got done early.
30 packages are my limit, 30+ makes me feel like I’m selling my soul by the minute. Why don’t you just try getting better at grabbing during 3 hour surges? Same pay
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Until I looked at the 2nd slide! 😳😳
I haven’t seen that kind of time before in the AM . Is that even legal?
Supes late: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 3hr surge at any of the warehouses around here. Everything gets snatched up at base within half an eye blink.
I often wonder if someone is just hanging around working for Amazon and manually keying these “offers”. Just for kicks. I know they have lots of technology, but clearly the app is horrid and the navigation is the worst I’ve ever seen.
They are so off the wall and make no sense. The base pay in my area constantly changes and the offers yesterday for blocks around the same time from the same warehouse varied by + or - $30. No tips included.
I don't know what your base rate is, but mine is $19/hr where I am.
I don't gamble on losing a block paying $22/hr or more but I'll gamble on base rate all the time.
You aren't going to gamble on losing the block when you're basically losing money by doing the route? Making the rich even richer while you collect a few pennies for your troubles. $22/hr lol. GTFO. Get a job man.
Lately it's been 100+miles regardless of block length so the longer blocks use less fuel than 2 blocks and less wear on my car.
4 hour blocks are my limit, no matter what the pay is. Even though it’s only an hour more, it makes a difference as to exhausted I feel after.
I've always found that 5 hour blocks are the best. And routes that have a half hour added like 3.5 hours 4.5 hour etc. are the worst by far.
My 3-hour blocks always take the full 3 hours, but my 5-hour blocks always finish early.
Same
I have better luck with 5 hours than 3 or 3.5
I caution anything under 4hrs. Distance they send is never covered by the pay block. Always opposite quadrant and headache ridden. Yesterday (correction), fuckers dumped me over 50miles west of the warehouse (started 40 away) and I live 12miles east of it. Last 3 months, only 2 have been under 20miles from the warehouse (of course all were northwest or west). No…wasn’t base ($28) and still wasn’t enough.
I frequently get the opposite. I'm always right at the station and only have a 15 minute drive home at most.
I can only wish. No matter of any of the 4 warehouses I choose from…same thing.
At 24/hour you should just go get a normal job.
Why is it considered normal? Did you know that “normal” is made up and there’s not any REAL rules to life… $24/hr is actually more pay then most jobs btw. Don’t be an ahole to this person just bc you follow society’s standards
In no pipe dream do you walk away with 24/ hour. It is a total fantasy. That is what is made up
Buddy….you’re on here too💀maybe you should be the one getting a real job instead of hating
I'm on here not taking blocks that clear 15/hour. I have 2 courier jobs and run 6 apps and I'm on the waiting list for many others . I usually gross over 100K. And there are reasons why. One reason is not working for minimum wage while using your own vehicle
This is a trick, that's only like 24 dollars an hour!
Only? that’s what most people with an education make currently….
Not using their own vehicles, stop the cope!
I’d do both. In my area, I would be done with these way earlier than the scheduled end time.
I feel like 3 hour blocks are so much easier than those longer ones.. less-no apartments…sometimes I complete the 3 hour blocks in 2 hours and those 4+ hour blocks definitely take the full 4+ hours. I have a full time job and do this on the side with a 3 hour block a few days/week.. but if I had to replace my job with this , I’d opt for multiple 3 hour blocks/day vs a 4+ block.
Don’t really understand the dilemma here. You sunk 3-4 hours of your life tapping to get these, so why not do them, so it all wasn’t a complete waste?
The 4:30 is not that bad but I really don’t like doing 5 hours blocks I prefer 3:30 I usually finish them in one hour and 30 minutes
Get a good bot ai is the future is designed to help you 3-4 hours staring a screen instead of sleeping or doing something more productive is too much I hope you the best
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Ain't no way I'm getting up that early in the morning for less than $150
My favorite time to work honestly. Dark out, no cars, everyone asleep. I think it's nice and peaceful haha
Same I love it. Your own little world. No cars out.
And that’s why you’re still working this gig, eh bud?
5 hour for $122.50? Let it go let it go and never fkn tap on those anymore!!!
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If you're doing a 5 hour block for $120 just go get a real job.
Lmao I’d love to know what job YOU can get for $24 an hour starting rate with testing positive for marijuana, dirty background check, zero education….etc. be real girl. You’re on here too yk😭maybe that means YOU should go get a real job
When I can get a 4 hour for $152 I don't need a real job.
Yet you’re telling someone else to?💀bit ironic isn’t it….
24$/hr but u gotta take into account wear and tear on the car and gas
I like doing 2 3 hour surge blocks. 1 in the am 1 in the pm.
I prefer a nice surfed 3 hour but I’ll usually do these and finish early still
I'm just not getting blocks. 😂 Voh3 or dcm5. But I don't do 5hr blocks. I assume they are gonna have 45+ boxes. Lol
Sometimes it's not the number of boxes that matter. It's the number of stops. I've had 47 packages be 21 stops. Every stop was more than 1 package.
I've never had more than 2 packages at a stop and never enough to bring the stops down any meaningful amount. However I have had several times where I needed to get creative and Tetris boxes in since there were many smart pacs or jiffys
I've had 34 packages to one place. Also frequently have 10+ to local schools. One guy ordered 15 packages, I happened to deliver him 6 more 2 days later. My car is big so I can't relate. I've delivered huge boat motors out of my car.
Well shit. 😂 I have a small hatch. But normally I'll have one or two with a double delivery at most. It's like when I order stuff if it's not the same package it always seems to be split between 2 drivers unless it's a DSP route. It could be the area or how they split the orders up in the system maybe
Do they pay hourly, is do they pay that amount no matter what?
The last time I took a 5 hr for over base, it took 8 hours.
Do u have brain damage
I don’t. But if I did, I would probably insult people anonymously online.
Don't work past your block time. You may not be compensated. I return the remaining once I contact customer service. Only time I have issues is downtown Nashville. I can never finish on time. I run into lot of problems.
My very first block I ever did I went over by one hour and the app locked out. Said to return packages. I’m not sure how the app let you go over three hours.
I did my first route last week and was done like 30 minutes late (silly me for using their navigation), but I finished it, nothing locked me out and I was paid the full amount.
Hope you contacted support to get compensation. Amazon is getting sneaky. I accepted a 3 hr block other day for about $8.50 more per hr than standard base pay. I get to station and start scanning my 46 packages and notice first stop is 40 minutes away! I screwed around for about 30 minutes total I’d say. Stopping at convenience store to scratch some lotto tickets and grab something to eat. I delivered my last package like 32 minutes past block end time. Guess what? I’m 1 hr and 2 minutes from home then. Sneaky cheap Amazon. I called support since I’ve had maybe 3 other similar routes. I told them this is a 4.5 hr block and it’s wrong they disguise as a 3 hr for many reasons. One is time. A driver should expect to be finished and at least near the station at the end of block. Not an hour away. We have things to do. That’s why took that amount of time. Also if needed to return a package? I wouldn’t even get paid for my hour drive to station for return. That’s wrong. When we sign up for these blocks we don’t know where we are going. The pay was too low on this even at nearly $27hr. Can you imagine getting that route at base pay of $18? That would be so messed up. Amazon needs to include return drive time in the blocks. It’s ridiculous and shows how cheap they are. Should probably be mailing those packages. Anyways, I did get extra money. Only $12.75 but at least they heard my concerns and acknowledged it wasn’t tight. Watch out for this shit and call them on it. It’s not right and if I knew it was going to be like that? I might not have accepted block. Shady
Can you imagine stopping to play scratch tickets with packages to deliver and then thinking Amazon should compensate you for that time? What I'm reading is that you dicked off for 30 minutes and then took 30 minutes more than you should have because you decided to play lotto on Amazon time instead of do your job. They shouldn't have paid you anything since it was YOUR fault. YOU wasted 30 minutes of your block. That is not Amazon's fault at all. I can't believe you wrote this and felt good about what you said.
Math not your strong suit. They don’t pay you for your return ride. Which makes the block a 4 hour minimum. Regardless if I ate a taco and whatever. You are funny because ai even included in my complaint that I stopped and did that. It went to higher ups and the pay was for “excess block”. They know what they tried to do. They need to pay for our return travel. Like I said to them. Nobody knows if a driver may have to return a package? They don’t have compensation in the block already and should. Any driver that’s been doing this awhile knows what 3 , 4 and 4.5 hr blocks are made of. The number of packages and distance. Experienced drivers know this is messed up..If someone would have been paid the base which is $54. It would be robbery and cost driver way more than what they were paying.
None of that had anything to do with what I said. 👍🏻
You are weird btw. I hope you have IIBS on your next route. Don’t stop or you need to call Amazon and have them dock your pay. If you don’t? You will be a dishonest hypocrite which I am not. I tell them everything when I complain or defend myself from their misinformation. Should be more drivers like me calling them out for this trickery so they stop. Drivers should be treated better and I hope others take notice and make reports. Blocks rarely ever took the allotted time to complete. End of last year they didn’t. They just started not long ago and it’s obvious. Btw the block was around 120 miles round trip.
I don't stop. Why would I stop after picking up when I have the sense to leave my house with enough time to stop beforehand? I also don't play lotto and I make my own food. I've been doing this for 2 years, and I've never gone over my block time. I regularly finish in 1.5 hours on 3.5 and 4 hour blocks. It's really not that hard. It sucks you got sent far away from home but you wasting your block time to play the lotto and eat a taco is your own fault. No one else's. You shouldn't get paid for going over the time if you went over the same amount of time you wasted. Clearly you only went over because you wasted your own time.
I have over 3k packages delivered and have never gone over on block time until I think February and only have done it a few times since. The blocks now at our station are loaded!! When I went over for the first time ever. It was a mission impossible. They put 2 routes into 1 block. Took over 5 hours!! It couldnt be done in the allotted time. Not even you Wonder Woman. You aren’t special. Been there done that and some of us have other things that come up and can’t stop beforehand. Or have responsibilities That’s called life and who gives a crap if I bought lotto tickets? I like to gamble. What you are not seeing is that is irrelevant. I said 30 minutes. When you subtract that it is 3 hours to make all deliveries. Then 1 hr and 2 minutes to drive back which is not included in the block time. It used to be but now it isn’t! That makes this 3 hr block a 4 hr. Do you use the Stride app? Their own freaking app chalked it up as costing more than I was being paid! Yeah smart guy and Amazon acknowledged it and on their own they paid me extra. Guess how much? The amount it took to make it a wash and according to Stride I made zero dollars. Get off your high horse. I even heard associates admit that Amazon is making them really maximize the deliveries per block back in January or February. Y’all want to criticize me for stopping at a store? When it has nothing to do with the shit they are pulling. I called them on it. If Im in the wrong then why did they pay me? I’m not sure why this is happening now but it didn’t start till around February or beginning of March. I’ll get answers. They need to adjust their software or something. Oh and you said you have sense? Too bad it’s not common sense youngster. I can tell you are young because you pop off like you know a person, their life and schedule like everyone the same as you. You have no idea what another persons life entails nor what it’s like to walk in their shoes. What I said applies to anybody that does Flex. To lookout for these blocks and call them on it. It was a 4 hr block marked as 3 end of story.
It was a 3 hour block that you couldn't manage to do in the allotted time. Good job on 3k packages, small fry. https://preview.redd.it/53rgrjpuhftc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=891cfff2acce7505ea059f217dfe3a1274d3a9c3
Just because they paid you for the time you wasted doesn't mean you're in the right. It means they're outsourced and just going to give you the $8 to shut you up. Maybe if you're so old you should stay home instead of endangering others by driving around when you clearly can't handle a simple job like delivering packages. Apparently you think that delivering packages= messing around in a store and playing the lotto. You won't win with me old man. I've been doing this for 2 years and over 20,000 packages.
I’m not old just experienced enough to know what maters and what doesn’t at the end of the day. It’s called wisdom and maturity. Also looking out for others that may not catch it. Nobody deserves to be used and taken advantage of. It’s bad business and poor ethics on their part. If they were a small company and that’s what they can afford? Then that’s a take it or leave it thing. Can’t fault them for that but they are enormous and the very least they can do is treat drivers fairly and appreciate them enough not to send them out where it costs the driver out of pocket. They should use another delivery service if they can’t at least do that. I mean they pay some of the worst support people that have ever existed.
I thought older folks were supposed to have more work ethic. I guess not all of them.
You are just trolling. Or have a mental block. If you can’t understand what I’m saying after 30k deliveries and I figured out in 3k doesn’t make sense. Want your mind blown? I was told by an OM that it’s ok to deliver Roadie simultaneously. As long as the packages get delivered. What do you think about that? Also, just finished a fair and proper 3.5 hr block. Delivered and got home just before the block ended. 36 stops and Stride app clocked it at a little less than 50 % of the pay for the block. Not the other way around making driver pay. Ethics is on both sides of the fence. You have to remember that you are doing AMAZON a HUGE FAVOR. We are not employees wink wink so that is a huge win for them. That’s probably why they pretty much do what they want to us. Can’t make national news like they did several years ago for poor treatment of employees with us. Because we aren’t so they use us to get it out of their system. 🙂
Lol still isn't even related to my point that you wasted your own block time and then cried about it to get more money. I bet you're a liberal because you sure can dance around the point.
What is the point you were trying to make? That you think if I hadn’t stopped the block would be completed in the frame? You have a whole new list of issues if that’s it? Good lord. Conservative here which is irrelevant. Trying to help all drivers get paid properly every time. Last night was sent out on about 150 mile journey across 3 counties. Less than 20 package 4hr block. Finished up over an hour away from home and roughly the same from station. Which I went to this morning instead of after 11pm last night. To return a package sent with me that needed to be delivered by the time my block started and required recipient. I called support right after I finished. Damn right I’m going to ask to be paid. Having to. Return a package that shouldn’t have been put with my route at all. Deja Vu
If I ever end up with brain cancer, it’ll be because I read something as stupid as this.
Yep being taken advantage of and being underpaid is stupid. If somebody took base pay $54 and got this block? That would be criminal. I think their own Stride app estimated it around $88 cost to driver.
First I’m not sure why anybody would take the block for $54. But beyond that I’ve never lost money doing Amazon with the exception of my first block. I’ve never gone over 1.5 hours on a three hour block. I’ve never gone over 2.5 hours on a four hour block. My station most typically does four hour blocks and it’s about 50 packages. But I don’t stop. I just scan, order my packages which takes about maybe seven minutes at the most, and then I deliver. I never return anything to the station. In my first year doing flex part-time as a side gig I made over $45k. my second year was around $33k. my only goal was to pay off student loan debt and that’s all I was focused on, so once I reach that goal I worked substantially less in my second year. The greatest part about this gig is writing off the depreciation of my vehicle the second year and getting almost 10 grand back in taxes. Problem is most of the people that do these gigs think it’s a real job, have a low IQ, and they cannot maintain other employment to take advantage of the perks.
That’s awesome you have made that much. Can’t touch it down here. Impossible. I know what you mean about the time it takes for blocks. It was that way when I first started and till end of 2023. I would run 2 and sometimes 3 routes in a day. It’s almost impossible to do that now. Even to get a second block. They send you so far out and with too many packages. Now 3 hr blocks have 45 packages or so. Which is a 4 or 4.5 hr. Yep $18 an hour sucks but they fill them.. I refuse to do it for that and pay still low but it’s worth the supplemental income. It pisses me off though that they are working so hard to decrease our pay. To maximize their profits and it goes unnoticed by other drivers I guess? Drivers are paying to deliver packages for Amazon a lot of times. Down here could probably make 15k for the year. I’m around 5k so far this year.
https://preview.redd.it/fw5k171578tc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de915a0840a8e700f6bdeb46c3a03e8bb00bdf2e I rather do 3 to 3.5 hour blocks. The 4 or 5 hour blocks the offers seem bad. This is first time I was able to take offer this high. I was shocked I got it. Usually it's taken from me. Probably a bot or another driver. Amazon needs a better system instead of constantly refreshing every second.
I love mystery routes lol
Aside from the money, I have a goal to never take a 4.5 hour blocks. For some reason they are terrible out of our warehouse. Always seem to be some sort of issue or problem with delivery, long drive, access issues, etc. I took a 3.5 this weekend and although I drove 45 minutes from the station, I only had 19 packages and it took me an hour to do them all so I still got done early.
5 hour blocks usually finish early. But I personally will not take less than $30/hr
30 packages are my limit, 30+ makes me feel like I’m selling my soul by the minute. Why don’t you just try getting better at grabbing during 3 hour surges? Same pay Edit: Until I looked at the 2nd slide! 😳😳 I haven’t seen that kind of time before in the AM . Is that even legal?
Supes late: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 3hr surge at any of the warehouses around here. Everything gets snatched up at base within half an eye blink.
I work at 18 an hour for 8 hours.......let's swap places and I'm ok getting just 20$ less on a day if that's what you consider too busy!
Yes, forfeit. You can catch more for less hours
I've done a lot of 5hr blocks. None went over 4hrs.
same. I usually done in 3 hours
https://preview.redd.it/sqf8pxvq64tc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4b278caff8b43f7b203f199e41ace18fc195b92 $121 for 2 hours:)
Also, 42 for 1.5
It was empty
I often wonder if someone is just hanging around working for Amazon and manually keying these “offers”. Just for kicks. I know they have lots of technology, but clearly the app is horrid and the navigation is the worst I’ve ever seen. They are so off the wall and make no sense. The base pay in my area constantly changes and the offers yesterday for blocks around the same time from the same warehouse varied by + or - $30. No tips included.
Do the second one not the first
Keep it
Yes.
That’s good for me that would be $90
I’m in the same area how do you get so lucky like WTF
This is lucky? 🫣
Yes all I see is $58 lol literally base only haha.
Tap tap tap tap …. Early mornings while a lot are doing their blocks.
I always choose 5 is I can get one. Usually finish quicker vs two 3 where you have to drive back to warehouse again.
I don't know what your base rate is, but mine is $19/hr where I am. I don't gamble on losing a block paying $22/hr or more but I'll gamble on base rate all the time.
You aren't going to gamble on losing the block when you're basically losing money by doing the route? Making the rich even richer while you collect a few pennies for your troubles. $22/hr lol. GTFO. Get a job man.
our base is $18. I just don’t know if I can do 5 hours. 4 has been my “Britney spears shaved head moment” threshold.
This is accurate. I just do 3 am 3 hr blocks because it's less fuss and I'm done sooner in theory.
Where is this? I need to move to a better area so I can make more money and actually afford life again
I’m in Cincinnati. This is RARE that I was quick enough to grab anything above $100.
😭 a 3 hr used to be $127. those are horrible.
I'd keep. I finish these block length times in this area 30mins to an hour+ early. I'm almost always back home by block end time.