Amazon Amazon Delivery Service Partner Driver reviews

If they hire you on the spot, you know there's a catch. Amazon drivers in Lancaster County, PA start at $15/hr and receive no benefits and often no full time hours, while UPS drivers start at $21/hr with benefits and often overtime. The reason is that UPS drivers have a union via the Teamsters, while Amazon drivers do not. Amazon drivers cannot unionize en masse because they work for DSPs, who Amazon uses as a human shield against unionizing efforts. DSPs typically employ around 20 people, so if their drivers want to unionize, they can only do so against the DSP. None of the DSPs can afford to pay their drivers well because of the small cut Amazon gives them, so if the drivers do unionize, the DSP will go out of business, but it won't hurt Amazon because they have 5,000 nationwide, and they can easily divert the deliveries to other DSPs or UPS. I calculated that Amazon drivers do 85% of the work UPS drivers do but get 71% of the pay (at least to start). Amazon has brought the race to the bottom to America. Meanwhile, Bezos gets to pretend to be a good guy for having electric vehicles and donating $10 billion to green causes, but he gets the money not from innovation but a race to the bottom on the backs of his workers, which include most of all his drivers. The other horrendous thing is that the "customer-obsessed" (and employee- hostile) Bezos doesn't trust the driver to deliver the package despite subjecting them to a preliminary background check. You must go to the alotted GPS coordinates to be able to mark the packages as delivered, which you need to do with every package to finish for the day. You must often call technical support and lose valuable minutes waiting for the annointed ones in the call center (who hate their jobs and could care less about them) to let you drop it off. Amazon also forces you to click through 6 screens to do a delivery: start trip, arrive, scan package, continue to door, photograph package, finish delivery. On any given day you'll have to do that 120-150 times. That's a total of up to 900 screens per day in a nonstop, methodical marathon. Rather than just start the trip and scan the package, which would permit you some relief, you are constantly locked in. What's really creepy is that the van is loaded with floor sensors to spy on you, and it penalizes you if you don't shut off the car and take your seatbelt off in the right order. The collective effect of the screens and the car sensors is that you must become like a robot, never having time to think about anything in your head or relax--not even for a few seconds. My mind would feel awful ater driving. I actually enjoyed the sprinting part, which was necessary to finish on time and also had some mild health benefits, but I hated the mental prison the job puts you in. It us utterly dehumanizing. The job forces you to speed. I never sped except for a little when I was in my teens and early 20s, but Amazon forces you to speed to finish on time. The idiots also don't adequately factor in when you have a rural route, so on such days you've really got to drive like a maniac. You must also keep pakcages up front. They tell you not to do that, but they don't give you time to go back to the van and get them out. You must buckle the passenger seat belt to deactivate the sensor so that you ca keep packages up there. I never kept anything up front that could get under the brake pedal, but not all drivers will be so smart. I was taken off the schedule due to finishing last or next to last my first two times. I showed up the next week thinking I was still on the schedule, but because someone didn't show, I got their route. I kept packages up front, sprinted to doorways so long as no one was looking, pissed in bottles, and took no lunch. I finished second despite them bungling my order at the station and delaying me 15 minutes. My DSP wanted to schedule me again and have me train people, but I quit. Before doing so, I wanted to show the Lex Luthor CEO who runs the company that I could be the best driver ever but chose not to out of a principled stand. I want to round a group of rag-tag volunteers to follow Amazon vans and leave flyers about getting a minimum wage of $20 for drivers and a minimun of 40 alotted hours per week. It takes not Superman to defeat Lex Luthor but a group of selfless, good-hearted, ordinary people. When I think about my fellow drivers and how Amazon paid them so little it makes me sick. They used to dress so nice and they took their jobs so seriously. I wish Amazon took them seriously.