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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walmart has very fast shipping and a lot of the same stuff [/quote]

Walmart is also a trash corporation so I don't really think that solves for concern wrt  Amazon.[/quote]
 
Walmart treated one of my employee's Moms really really well. The Mom worked on the overnight stock crew for years. 
She had a mental breakdown and was kidnapped and disappeared from Maryland where she work at Walmarat and showed up in a mental hospital wing in Texas. 
My employee had to drive to Texas to pick up her Mom from the mental health hospital. The Mom continued with her mental health
treatment in Maryland. Walmart took her back on her old job on the overnight stock crew. (The Mom had been no show no call at her Walmart job and Walmart did not know where she was for about 3 weeks.)  The Mom is happy to be back on her job at Walmart and the Walmart team is happy to have her back.

Ever since this incident we support Walmart.

[b]Amazon treats their van drivers terribly. They have to spend money on gas and their time to drive into the Amazon terminal to
see if they get a driving shift that day. Many times they don't have one.  Many drive 30 miles or more each way from their home just to see if they have a shift for the day[/b].[/quote]

This is not true. Amazon uses privately owned DSP delivery service providers for most of their delivery. Those contract companies employ drivers that drive the Amazon trucks and vans. They usually offer their drivers 8-20 hour shifts and 40-60 hour weeks. They start @$22 an hour in my area  so for some this is a good job where they don’t have to be bothered and get to work alone and make their own daily schedules. Some “career” delivery drivers prefer Amazon more than FedEx or UPS because they get have a regular route and they get used to and get to see the same homes/people every day, like USPS driver used to be back in the day.

The drivers you’re talking about are gig workers, like door dash or Uber. Some choose this because they get to be their own boss, control their own time and their own schedule. Some use this as a pastime or temporary job to make extra money. When flex drivers are new they don’t get priority. They sign up for a very short 1-3 hour shift in the app, with the understanding that if they’re late, they lose their shift or if they’re not needed they won’t have a shift. I think Amazon does compensate them a very small amount if they get sent home with no packages to deliver.

The ones either priority/status get a shift every time.  You are correct in that these flex drivers should understand that they will be using their own car, and gas, and could get a route pretty much anywhere within the Delivery range (so a lot more gas), But just like Uber, it’s on them to be smart enough to do the math that if they get a three hour shift for $60, they do not net $20 an hour. [/quote]

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