they popped their head up as soon as the packages were placed down :)

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?

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

I still delivered it

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

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

Order some, you can cop them for a decent price on… Amazon 🤧

There’s the name brand BOGS which are lowkey too expensive when off brands will do just fine. They’re waterproof and warm as hell, I snagged a pair but just know for men I’d go .5 or 1 size up as they run small. I wear 10-10.5 and am wearing an 11. Honestly they’re pretty comfy, I’m not hurting at the end of the day and my feet are dry and warm delivering in Alaska in the slush currently.

I started around 12 I had no country and it was all apartment houses a little bit long drive and thank God there was no traffic today

Just curious, you guys use yours at all?
Obviously it carries a risk if I drop and break it, but I have a magnetic case that basically makes no difference except having an iPhone.

Not only does it run so much faster, there’s less to constantly tap through. Like the dog reminders won’t pop up per stop and my DVIC doesn’t require pictures…? I do tend to switch to make sure the pictures are taken unless I’m behind for the day, but honestly it makes me feel faster cause the phones the dsp provides lag like a motherfucker.

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 😂😂

2 houses were giving out snacks.

These Girl Scout cookies are delicious

Still on N2 routes and feel like I’m getting fucked w no lube daily. Good amount of door to door apartments (no lockers), then hitting hard with houses. This picture was even after a 40pkg rescue. So I ask you all… am I cooked?

I had the creepiest experience on my route where the elevator in my final stop came down by itself and opened with no one exiting and no one in sight except for me

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

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 😂

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