Anyone Drive For Amazon Flex?

[DatLBCGuy562]

My brothers girl does and she swears by it. Says it easy and she makes decent money. Thinking about adding it as a side hustle. Wouldn’t hurt to have some extra cash for the holidays...drop your experiences if you have any. Wondering if this is solid

 

[King Harlem]

I wanted to make some extra money and it was a cool side hustle. Unlike Uber and Lyft, I didn't have to deal with people really.
I would work my full-time job, about an hour before my shift was over I would check to see if there were any routes available (usually there were). I would usually sign up for a 3-4 hour route and sometimes I would only work for two hours and your still get paid for the whole shift. Then holidays and some weekends they will pay a higher amount to get people to work.
There's really no training, so you have to learn a lot while you work (training is basically watching a few videos on your phone).
You want to do residential addresses. Apartments and Condos take forever, you have to wait for someone to let you in, you have these huge apartment complexes sometimes where it's hard to find the apartment you are looking for.

 

[King Harlem]

Also very important: They don't take any taxes out of your paycheck, which is great but can catch up to you come tax time. You want to save your receipts for gas and toll, so you can expense them as work expenses. This will save you a lot of money.

 

[DatLBCGuy562]

I wanted to make some extra money and it was a cool side hustle. Unlike Uber and Lyft, I didn't have to deal with people really.
I would work my full-time job, about an hour before my shift was over I would check to see if there were any routes available (usually there were). I would usually sign up for a 3-4 hour route and sometimes I would only work for two hours and your still get paid for the whole shift. Then holidays and some weekends they will pay a higher amount to get people to work.
There's really no training, so you have to learn a lot while you work (training is basically watching a few videos on your phone).
You want to do residential addresses. Apartments and Condos take forever, you have to wait for someone to let you in, you have these huge apartment complexes sometimes where it's hard to find the apartment you are looking for.

Thank you for the information brother. Very helpful. I completed the application process. Just waiting on the driver license verification and background check to complete.

 

[kej718]

Worked in the warehouse before (flex side hustle). The drivers make OK money from what I hear (working in the city), regular salary plus tips. Only problem might be getting the hours you want. They may not always be available. Good for a side hustle not so much if you are depending on it. You are responsible for your own gas and insurance if I am not mistaken (ask your friend about that), or better yet see if you can sit in her car while she works for a day to see what it is really like. That would help her too if she needs to double park and is worried about getting tickets.

Benefits of working flex is you only are required to do a certain about of hours a month to keep the job, meeting new people, and traveling to places you probably have never been before.
Cons (gas, insurance, some orders are heavy so if that customer lives in a building and the elevator does not work ).

 

[Hersh]

I applied like over a year ago.. but I neber completed the application I think..but I'm thinking about trying it again..

edit: checked email.. just under 2 years ago.. but yeah I might go for it

 

[J.E.T.S]

Welp. I can't do this either, I got violence in my background. No felony though.

 

[Balla]

Sounds fun...

Get to travel, meet people, I'm thinking if u go to a chick's house and she think you look good, she'll let you hit and give you a tip. Sounds fun.



What would you say you could make if you work part time (15-25 hrs) and full time ?

Are there car requirements?

I wanted to make some extra money and it was a cool side hustle. Unlike Uber and Lyft, I didn't have to deal with people really.
I would work my full-time job, about an hour before my shift was over I would check to see if there were any routes available (usually there were). I would usually sign up for a 3-4 hour route and sometimes I would only work for two hours and your still get paid for the whole shift. Then holidays and some weekends they will pay a higher amount to get people to work.
There's really no training, so you have to learn a lot while you work (training is basically watching a few videos on your phone).
You want to do residential addresses. Apartments and Condos take forever, you have to wait for someone to let you in, you have these huge apartment complexes sometimes where it's hard to find the apartment you are looking for.

 

[King Harlem]

Sounds fun...

Get to travel, meet people, I'm thinking if u go to a chick's house and she think you look good, she'll let you hit and give you a tip. Sounds fun.



What would you say you could make if you work part time (15-25 hrs) and full time ?

Are there car requirements?

Lol. You really don't meet people. My first couple of days I would ring the doorbell and wait for people to open the door and hand them the package (expecting a tip). Nobody tips their package delivery drivers. Once I realized that, my goal was to finish my route as quickly as possible. So unless there is a required signature, I ring the doorbell and put the package in a safe place on the porch (they started requiring you to photograph the packages where you place them if you don't get a signature).

For me, I didn't work for Amazon, I just did Amazon Flex (there's a difference), you are basically an UBER for Amazon packages with the flex program. So, they normally offer routes that are supposed to be 3-5 hours. My goal was to finish as quickly as possible. In the area I live, they would offer $24-27 an hour, sometimes during holidays (when they really want to entice people), it can get up to $30 an hour. They post the available routes on their app that you will put on your phone. It's first come, first serve, so you have to be quick. You accept a route from lets say 3:00 to 6:00 for $75.00 ($25/hr). You go and pick up your packages at their warehouse (I think there's like a 15 minute grace period before they cancel your route and give it to someone else). You pick up lets say 20 packages. They will pay you $75.00 no matter what, so my goal was to finish as quick as possible. So if I finish at 5:00, I just made $75.00 in two hours and once its 6:00pm and you still have packages, they app will tell you to go back to the warehouse drop off the rest your packages. It's really a great way to make some extra money.

It's totally different if you work as an Amazon employee, I believe they offer you a vehicle in that case.

 

[Balla]

Wouldn't u get in trouble if you didn't give everyone their packages by the end of the shift?

Or can you just get the packages and delivery as much as you can type shyt?

If you can make $75 a day and only work 3 hours, I think I found a job I can do while going to school.

I'll just pick up another part time if need be.

Lol. You really don't meet people. My first couple of days I would ring the doorbell and wait for people to open the door and hand them the package (expecting a tip). Nobody tips their package delivery drivers. Once I realized that, my goal was to finish my route as quickly as possible. So unless there is a required signature, I ring the doorbell and put the package in a safe place on the porch (they started requiring you to photograph the packages where you place them if you don't get a signature).

For me, I didn't work for Amazon, I just did Amazon Flex (there's a difference), you are basically an UBER for Amazon packages with the flex program. So, they normally offer routes that are supposed to be 3-5 hours. My goal was to finish as quickly as possible. In the area I live, they would offer $24-27 an hour, sometimes during holidays (when they really want to entice people), it can get up to $30 an hour. They post the available routes on their app that you will put on your phone. It's first come, first serve, so you have to be quick. You accept a route from lets say 3:00 to 6:00 for $75.00 ($25/hr). You go and pick up your packages at their warehouse (I think there's like a 15 minute grace period before they cancel your route and give it to someone else). You pick up lets say 20 packages. They will pay you $75.00 no matter what, so my goal was to finish as quick as possible. So if I finish at 5:00, I just made $75.00 in two hours and once its 6:00pm and you still have packages, they app will tell you to go back to the warehouse drop off the rest your packages. It's really a great way to make some extra money.

It's totally different if you work as an Amazon employee, I believe they offer you a vehicle in that case.

 

[King Harlem]

Wouldn't u get in trouble if you didn't give everyone their packages by the end of the shift?

Or can you just get the packages and delivery as much as you can type shyt?

If you can make $75 a day and only work 3 hours, I think I found a job I can do while going to school.

I'll just pick up another part time if need be.

Nope, you are basically contracted to work a certain amount of time. Once that time expires you are supposed to return to the warehouse with whatever packages you have left (the app won't even let you delivery anymore packages). For me I hated when this happened. My goal was always to finish about an hour early and go home. Going back to the warehouse could be another 20 to 30 minutes driving.

Oh and they pay you twice a week (direct deposit). It's a really good side job.

 

[Balla]

One more thing,

Are the hours good? And do they cancel your route if you take long to get to the warehouse?

Nope, you are basically contracted to work a certain amount of time. Once that time expires you are supposed to return to the warehouse with whatever packages you have left (the app won't even let you delivery anymore packages). For me I hated when this happened. My goal was always to finish about an hour early and go home. Going back to the warehouse could be another 20 to 30 minutes driving.

Oh and they pay you twice a week (direct deposit). It's a really good side job.

 

[King Harlem]

One more thing,

Are the hours good? And do they cancel your route if you take long to get to the warehouse?

Okay, so it's like this. You apply for amazon flex, they do their background check, you pass, go download the app, watch the tutorial videos and you select your hours of availability. So, let's say its Monday, based on your availability they will offer you routes. Lets say Tuesday: 12:00-4:00pm ($100), these are specifically routes for you that you have a couple days to except. Usually they offer routes in 3-4 hour intervals if you have a regular car because you can load only a certain amount of packages in your car. SUVs would get longer route options because they have more room to place packages.

I have a full time job, so I only looked for routes after 5:00pm. But I believe they have three basic sets of routes. Early routes: Like 9:30-1:30, Mid day routes: 12:00 - 4:00pm, and late afternoon routes: 5:30-9:30pm. These can vary but you get the point.

There's a place on the Amazon Flex app that says something like available routes. These are first come, first serve (I had limited availability, so I would maybe get one route a week sent to me specifically). So most of the routes any Amazon Flex driver can get. It would be something like this:

Available Routes:
City A: 4:30-7:30pm ($75.00)
City A: 5:30-9:30pm ($88.00)
City B: 4:30-7:30pm ($66.00)
City C: 5:00-9:00pm ($100.00)

You have to click and accept that route before someone else or you have to pick another route or you can wait and see if anything else opens up.

 

[King Harlem]

One more thing,

Are the hours good? And do they cancel your route if you take long to get to the warehouse?

On the app on your phone it can detect when you arrive and you hit a button saying you are there ready to load. I think you get a few minutes grace period, but I learned if I arrive too late I can go to one of the technicians inside and they can override the system and say that I arrived (this is extremely useful, but you can't be too late).

 

[Egomaniacal1]

And what kind of mechanism exists that would prevent ppl from picking a route, picking up the packages, not delivering a one and then going back after your hours are up and dropping off all the packages?