Anyone Drive For Amazon Flex?

[King Harlem]

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?

They give you a weekly summary. They warn you if you schedule too many routes and end up not showing up, they warn you if too many of your delivered packages are not received by the person who it was supposed to be delivered too (this is a big one) and they warn you if aren't delivering enough packages in your scheduled route. Too many times and they terminate you. But honestly, no one wants to go back to the warehouse (Some of these dudes will leave your package in the most unsafe places in order to finish their route). If you get $75.00 to work from 3:00 to 6:00pm, you don't want to have to use up your gas and maybe even pay toll to go back to the warehouse and return your packages. At least with me, I'm trying to hurry up and finish at 5:00pm and see if I can get another route or go home.

 

[Noriega]

Better have a fuel efficient vehicle that’s for sure

My boy had a 2002 Excursion, most of his bread he made from flex went straight to his gas tank

 

[DatLBCGuy562]

Better have a fuel efficient vehicle that’s for sure

My boy had a 2002 Excursion, most of his bread he made from flex went straight to his gas tank

Damn. It really doesn't pay or not worth your time unless your vehicle is somewhat fuel efficient..

 

[kej718]

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?

Some people use bikes / scooters or even walk. Not sure what the max weight is (factor this in if you plan on carrying this stuff on your back). Some people buy suitcases with wheels and just push it around.

 

[DatLBCGuy562]

Some people use bikes / scooters or even walk. Not sure what the max weight is (factor this in if you plan on carrying this stuff on your back). Some people buy suitcases with wheels and just push it around.

Only thing I saw during the application process that was a vehicle requirement was they wanted you to have a four door vehicle or a hatchback, because it facilitates easier loading. But I'm gonna show up with my backup car, which is a two door coupe. Doubt that they'll turn me away though...

 

[D.C Young]

I did it for about two months last year.

I think when you add up all the math, its basically no different then a minimum wage job.

I think its a cool way to make a little extra money if you got a few hours to spare.

 

[King Harlem]

I did it for about two months last year.

I think when you add up all the math, its basically no different then a minimum wage job.

I think its a cool way to make a little extra money if you got a few hours to spare.

I think I lasted about two months myself. There were three different warehouse options for me, but only one was close to my job and my house, so I had to drive a bit and I had to pay toll in order to get a route sometimes. I think I was able to make an extra $1000 a month, but after gas and toll I really don't know if it was worth it. You really need to keep a record of your gas and toll for taxes.

 

[D.C Young]

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.

yeah I used to hate that lol

the most difficult complexes are the ones where there are complexes located within complexes and within complexes

those bytches are almost like a maze...very annoying....

like you said, residential is the easiest shyt

 

[D.C Young]

I think I lasted about two months myself. There were three different warehouse options for me, but only one was close to my job and my house, so I had to drive a bit and I had to pay toll in order to get a route sometimes. I think I was able to make an extra $1000 a month, but after gas and toll I really don't know if it was worth it. You really need to keep a record of your gas and toll for taxes.

yeah its all about gas

figure out your gas expense and see if its worth it

 

[D.C Young]

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.

yeah you have to be quick

my cousin, who introduced me to flex, would always press refresh non-stop in order to have first dips on routes

but for me, the routes where pretty dependable....like I had no problem getting routes

I think they also give first option for routest based on how good you are....I'm not sure though, I dont really remember...

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Is there Amazon Flex in NYC?

 

[King Harlem]

Is there Amazon Flex in NYC?

Yep, it looks like NYC is one of the few areas looking for more drivers.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

IF YOU DON'T AVERAGE 20MPG OR MORE, DON'T BOTHER.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Just looked it up

Nothing seemingly in my area apparently

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

On the first page I'm reading like I may consider this then clicked the second page reading on shyt like damn I don't wanna spend all my extra change on gas