What It’s Like To Be An Amazon Flex Delivery Driver

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Amazon has offered free two-day shipping for Prime members since 2005. As Amazon rolls out a one-day shipping guarantee for its 100 million Prime members, Amazon Flex drivers help solve the company’s last mile problem. CNBC spoke to these on-demand contract workers all over the country to find out what it’s really like to deliver for Amazon. Watch the video to hear about the pay, pace of work, and how Amazon Flex works.

Is Amazon Prime worth it? For many members, free shipping is a key Amazon Prime benefit that factors into their decision to pay $119 per year for the service. As Amazon starts offering Prime members the added benefit of one-day shipping they’re working with on-demand contract drivers to help with this especially labor-intensive and expensive hand-delivery.

We spent a day with Omar Montes, a Flex driver in the San Francisco Bay Area. Omar helped a friend deliver around 46 packages in 3½ hours, for $105. “These are like the good days that make you want to continue doing Amazon. But, you know, there’s obviously bad days too,” Montes said.

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What It’s Like To Be An Amazon Flex Delivery Driver

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  2. Voces dizem isso porque nao moram aqui no Brasil , vem passar uns dia de luta aqui o coro come pai e no final do dia você nao comprou nem o basico para sua casa . No final do mes estamos negativos .

  10. I lost money that day.

    Welcome to being a greedy business owner. Your boss makes what he does cause a lot of days he dont get paid or loses money. Its not as easy and glamorous being an owner is it.

  11. Theyll run your car into the ground after a while youll need to pay a huge bill for maintenence which will be all your earnings eaten up… factor in the fuel and business insurance its just not worth it.

  16. Bruh I work a full time job and I don’t have a college degree cuz I don’t want lol to go at college 😂 but doing Amazon flex and Uber eats and my full time job at Walmart im making more money see guys ya better be smart like me working and too many jobs tiny jobs to make more money 💰 save up the money to buy new cars or save up the money for college if you want to study is optional or save up for a house apartment whatever 😊.

  18. They had a opening here in Eagle Pass Texas $18 to 25 a hour. Explain to me how it works and I wasn’t satisfy so I denied the work first because you’re putting your own vehicle you’re putting your own gas expense, Amazons not stupid they know what they’re doing . 2nd because they really don’t wanna explain to you how far they’re going when it comes to delivering. They can also put down how many packages he had to deliver. But they choose not to.. Amazon knows what they’re doing and they’re screwing. Sometimes their contractors over this is why I didn’t take the job. this is a position where they’re not telling you the truth and they just said just tell you half of what’s going on in your route instead of letting you know the full info with something I don’t like.

  19. The most important thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different sources of income that doesn't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the word. This is still a good time to invest in various stocks, Gold, silver and digital currencies.

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