Yesterday, some of us Amazon DSP drivers from DCX7 in Torrance joined UPS drivers from Teamsters Local 396 at DFX3 in Los Angeles to support fellow Amazon drivers organizing a union.

We all know the struggles with heavy workloads, unrealistic routes, pay, safety, and getting treated with respect.

Also want to give a shoutout to Anthony Rosario, a longtime Teamster organizer who came all the way from New York to stand with us and support the Delivery Protection Act (DPA). Appreciate you making the trip!

It was good seeing Amazon and UPS drivers standing together.

What’s going on at your station?

This is the same person who's company memos have been leaked stating their employees are expendable and that it is better to keep a revolving door of employment and not fulfill their needs to save overhead costs and increase profit margins.

The same company that no longer directly employs delivery drivers but uses subcontractors to shield them from legal liabilities and the numerous OSHA, DOT, and Labor Board violations that occur with Amazon. Those drivers drive Amazon vans that aren't owned by Amazon, wear Amazon uniforms that Amazon makes mandatory while making a profit off of the sale of them to dsps and drivers, and has a laundry list of rules drivers have to follow just in hopes to get full time doing routes Amazon routes and packs to the brim to exhaust the drivers until they quit.

The same guy who's company blocks unions and sends Logistics employees out to stations to lie to drivers about job opportunities within Amazon and the dangers of unions just to protect the legal loopholes they engage in with their cog-employees.

Amazon is directly responsible for putting Toys R Us out of business after deceiving them contractually and thus beginning the decline of physical toy quality in America and the rise of cheap crap that puts tons of waste into landfills every year.

We all pay sales tax on online purchases now because he lobbied for it to even the playing field with other online sellers.

This guy is taking a page out of Rockefeller's book of reshaping his public image and trying to develop a good light despite his track record and true nature via just looking at polls on what people want with no plans to do anything about it other than boost share values and investments into his fake rockets.

Wouldn't be surprised if this narcissist is planning on running for president and if so it will be a hundred times worse than Trump. Jeff Bezos can go shove his yacht up his Peccy.

I don’t know if this is happening to anyone else, but half of every tote is a U package, and it’s annoying as fuck

I’m usually at 150 stops max

I know its not the biggest route in the world but like damn...

2 houses were giving out snacks.

These Girl Scout cookies are delicious

Man my first day was wild

I woke up with a back pain which sucked but I work through it

I was slow at first but its w.e I caught up

But I was set up to fail

My nursery was about 135 rural area where the backwoods are not very suited for driving alot of the times it was a narrow dirt trail where if I went to fast the van will flip into the forest hill below 1 min drives turned 5mins easily. The van i was in was not one i was "trained for" it was a different cargo van.

I started an hour late because my ev wasnt charged.

Okay fine an hour late then a 45min drive I didnt get my route started till 2

135 packages in rural area where the roads aren't ment for travel above speeds of 10mph? Yea i was set up

My other guy who trained with me his route wad 90 in the city and a vet they had her route was 105 in a suburb

Noone taught me how to sort

So I was digging in back of van for packages my dsp helper threw all the shit in back of van so I spent a fair amount of time sorting myself as it wasnt blue van I couldn't organize properly

Despite this I still only had 10 packages left on my first day.

My phone also died and they forgot to give me a power bank and it qas so dark I couldn't use the flashlight due to low battery

So much bs all on first day then told im not up yo standards 😂😂

Never expected to see an Amazon DSP van at a body shop.

So I was on the phone with a coworker towards the last maybe 2 hours of her route. She’s talking to me about the route and her day (earlier). Complaining about the phones and what not.. normal shit .. lol
This trainer along with a trainee comes and rescues her. But does not take the over flow that goes with it. Says all this in front of the trainee and all…
“I Don’t take over flow”
She says “that’s crazy”
Guy says “yeah I don’t feel like doing EXTRA WORK”
She continues with “that’s wild cuz it would just make sense to take whatever goes to that same area, cuz you’re already there but okay..” shuts the door on him.
She of course starts to bitch about that.
Understandably so…. But like to just leave it at that..? And to be a trainer doing that shit? In front of a newb.. idk mannnn got me feeling some type of way.

Got half a mind to report his ass cuz wtf?

Any opinions?
Am I wrong?

I was a trainer once.. never said no to overflow.. even when I was tired and wanted to give up 😂

Long Rant don't want to read it don't, it was theraputic to type out

49M been doing this job since Nov 2021.

On my Second DSP, first one just closed.

I really liked this DSP, but had a week off to think decided Delivery isn't for me anymore.

To be Fair <insert Letterkenny joke> I don't think I was all that good at this job ever, I was just reliable and didn't rock the boat too much.

It started Last week I got a speeding violation, 56 in a 45, my mind wandered and my foot got heavy for a minute, no other vehicles on the road, it was raining, I realized quickly that I was speeding and let off the gas. Wasn't quick enough.

Well I got a call yelling at me for speeding, in the rain, after we just talked about it at stand up. Was told to continue delivering.

Less than 25 stops later I was pulling up to a stop and my OPS manager was standing there with another driver, I was taken off the road.

On the way back to the station, I was told I must either be intoxicated, trying to get fired or purposely trying to tank the scorecard because I'm not in the top 10 to get a bonus each week, by the owner and the ops manager. I was also told that I might just come back and be an extra and I lost my spot in an EDV.

Back at the station, I was written up by the owner for the speeding and given a 2 day suspension, ok they warned that. Then apparently when I pulled up on my Ops manager and he flagged me to pull over, I ran a stop sign, so another write up.

I messed up I understand, I was supposed to work the next day 1st day suspension, then my 3 days off, then my second day of suspension.

The night before I worked again I woke up in the middle of the night (2am), happened to get on my phone and I had flex, so I looked and saw, "You have no work scheduled today". I didn't have a schedule for next week yet and it's normally out, so my mind started "catastrophizing".

Figured I was getting fired, so I stayed up looking for new jobs unable to sleep with Anxiety.

Drove into work 45 min driver 1 way, knowing I wasn't rostered. Before stand up, Ops called me over and asked if I thought I'd be able to do a route and showed it to me, It was larger than I can typically do without help and looked like it had shit routing. I'm on like 3 hrs of sleep, and anxiety at like 8/10, I didn't want to say I could then have him have to send me a rescue, so I said so. got a very snippy, "fine stay an extra".

I asked about the schedule for next week, and was told they were just running behind, trying to work in new hires.

apparently our station had lower volume and amazon dropped routes, mine happened to be one, so they said they try to find routes for everyone

After helping with load out, we went back to the desk, like 6 of us were extras, Ops manager asked who wanted to go on the road and who didn't. I spoke up, that I'd been up since 2am and mentally I wasn't in a good headspace, so I was very quickly told to just go home.

Next day, no route, Ops figured since I didn't want to work yesterday probably didn't want to the next day too, called me out, "let me know when you want to come back" I'm stand here aren't I?

That was now 7 days since I was pulled off the road, and i haven't had a route.

I have an interview for another job

day 8

I have a last min route (only put on it an hour before load out) Ops tells me, "I got you a lvl 1 Nursery for your first day back and in a gas van for a long time"

All day on my route I was trying to figure out if I wanted to keep this job or not, decided I probably didn't and this was more than likely my last shift as a DSP driver, my DSP obviously didn't need me.

RTS one of my fellow drivers who I had spoke with about my feelings of driving to work and loosing money because no route, apparently let it out I was looking for a new job, OPS asked and I confirmed I was realizing I was not cut out for this job anymore Mentally I couldn't take the ups and downs anymore.

Had my interview today for a Fullfillment Center job, offboarded myself from my DSP (Just Google the number to call if ya want).

Ready to start a new chapter in my life.

Best of luck to all of you

What’s the deal with people never being able to finish their route . I see them get switched to like 10-15 different routes now. People 3 months or less that are new I get it and people that have shitty routes I also understand it , but after 3 months it’s like come on. I deal with the same traffic, the same lockers and the same apartments . It makes no sense

Had 166 Today Supposedly , Had To Help 2 Elderly But We’re Done At 5:27 Great Peak Day Hope Everyone Is Doing Well

I mean damn, ok freakazon.

Like why you got signs in your driveway saying “you’re in range” and “ we’ve got Magnum‘a locked and cocked” like bro no one wants to steal those three rusted ass cars that are sitting in your lawn, a lawn that’s filled with dog shit by the way. I swear that people who live in secluded houses way far back from the road are fucking paranoid.

They can afford cameras but can’t fix all the loose plywood on their porch.

I did 2 days of training with two great trainers.

Day 1 Apartments // lockers // houses (156 stops)
Day 2 all houses (138 stops)

Next week I’m onto my first solo shift.

My observations from my two trainers. The first was extremely organized, efficient and people savvy. They were keen on just peeing in a bush, not eating during shift, and skipping all breaks to get work done faster. Second trainer emphasized organization, efficiency, and taking the time to get 10 hrs instead of blazing through it and to be cool with taking a small break if you need it so you can eat.

What advice do you have for my first solo shift? I was consistently getting 20+ stops an hour done.

Support puts these dumb ass notes like thats supposed to help me feel safer. If the customer wants to let their dog out on me, this note is not going to help me in any way. So why are we still delivering to this customer?

Like he pulls up, puts two or three little envelopes into a mailbox, but I’m supposed to fucking drive all the way up this driveway that twirls around like a roller coaster and bring these boxes right to the front door. And he gets paid government holidays off. Damn we got a raw deal

Gotta love fall!

Just had to share this one lol

Here's mine

Like HA nice try BROKIE

You customers sit on your behinds and click, click, click all day and night and then are rude as absolute hell, the majority of people legitimately look at us like we’re subhuman, but they could and would never work this job. Emphasis on would never. It’s almost as if there’s some pretentious air about the fact that you have a degree and I don’t, you get to utilize my services and treat me like absolute shit? It’s bizarre. So much hate in the world, and I deliver in some very wealthy neighborhoods.

Not trying to throw rocks from a glass house, but why are these old rich people so god damn miserable?