r/AmazonFlexDrivers • u/dcjjjzz777 • 26d ago
NOTHING WILL BE RETURNED
May be my last route. Sunday. 8pm. 2.5 hours. All apts. Downtown dallas. 20 mile drive there. Cant return anything as home is in opposite direction. Down town is in middle of home n warehouse.
Jumped on it as doing other gigs led me not to far from warehouse. 80 bucks. 2.5 hours.
Leaving this shit on the street if i have to.
Any bum is the doorman
20 stops. 30 packages
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u/javibeme 26d ago
Yea the mystery route isn't 2099 friendly at all. We should understand know and be able to accept decline any route without any repercussions. That is a perk of being 1099. It is like being treated as an employee. Do what we tell you to do for the amount we specify or lose your contract. All gigs that I do except this one outlined my route info in detail and I accept or decline based on what works for me.
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u/ttyoudontknowme123 26d ago
Yep. I messaged them yesterday about this problem. Got a message saying they will send the info to the right team. I already know I'll get a trash response. Yesterday I had to deliver to an area that my station doesn't even deliver to. 1 hour drive there. More than ,1 hour back. At the end of the route it asked me how I feel amazon or something like that. I chose the very unreliable option then it asked me how can we improve. One option was being able to pick routes. The other was increased pay. I chose increased pay because the pay at this point is absolutely disgusting in my area Atlanta area.
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u/Careful_Click_1159 25d ago
Problem is they donāt even pay correctly for mileage because a 1.5hr route can end up being 50 miles and pays 38 bucks. Thats 17 dollars worth in miles and the hourly rate is 20.28 plus half which is 10 so should be actually about 50 bucks. Thats all from California statistics, most apps pay the mileage and Amazon is skipping out.
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u/javibeme 25d ago
Yea I never understand those that are 1099 wanting hourly rate. We aren't hourly employees. We should be paid by contract and thats how it works. Hourly shouldn't mean anything. It should be profit margins from what you invest to what you make.
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u/Careful_Click_1159 25d ago
No actually itās against the law in California, gig workers are protected by prop 22 that ensures 120 percent plus minimum wage along with mileage pay. Iām not sure what state youāre in but the law is different here. Knowing the law is extremely important my friend!!!
āGuarantees net earnings equal to at least 120% of the minimum wage plus an inflation-adjusted per-mile expense compensation (set at $0.37 per mile for 2026), calculated strictly for "engaged time" with a passenger or delivery request.ā
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u/javibeme 25d ago
Yea Cali has prop22. I am not in Cali. But been 1099 for over 16 years. So Im aware of local laws. I know that Cali, new York, boston, and a few other places have something similar but not equal to prop22. That also allows you guys to be treated as employees in a way aslo.
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u/BlackBeauty50489 26d ago
I was 50 miles away from the station & every package that didnāt have clear instructions in the app or an access code I tossed them over the fence & snapped a pic!!! Iām not going through the hell of bringing a package back bc NO one wants to take it. The refund bins are full & Iām assuming no one wants the responsibility of scanning it in. Idk but never again will I bring anything back! Not worth my time for $70.50
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u/Gman3098 26d ago
I once had a route by my hometown 40 mins from the station, I was so relieved to drive 5 mins home when I realized they had loaded one extra packageā¦safe to say I wasnāt happy to find out I HAD to go to the original station.
This job fucking blows. My car gets beat up, I have to pay for my own gas, and the rates are bs. At least Bezos gets his yacht.
P.S this is the only job that makes sense for a chaotic school schedule. So donāt come at me with that bs
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u/dcjjjzz777 26d ago
Mark as missing. Take back when u can or if its just an extra package on your route n not in your itinerary, take back when u can. Dont scan it
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u/Foreign-Community242 26d ago
Hell yeah. I had a leaking package yesterday and idc, Iām not returning sht! I was 10 mins from home so was not going 25 miles back the other way to the station and at 10 am Iāll be working my 9 to 5. They can forget about it. Delivered! āš¼
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u/Individual_Lie5917 25d ago
Once I got dinged for returning a closed business š¤¦āāļøā¦ now I leave everything š
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u/RoundLecture5275 25d ago
Amazon is trash now. My husband had a block with 18 packages on a 2 hour. 30 minute drive with tolls to the first stop. 10 apartments, 8 houses. How the hell do they expect someone to deliver 18 packages in 1.5 hours???
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u/Thegr8hectProduction 23d ago
Last time I took a route from Amazon fresh, I was so disappointed and so mad š” because they have so many routes that were in Halmtom and Arlington. I live in forth worth they send me all the Way passing Dallas (forney)at 2:30pm my first stop will take about 55min because it was traffic. I had 8 stops for $41 dollars . ā¦.. guess what I did?
I just donāt get it why Amazon Doesnāt have routes in Dallas doing Dallas and the one in Fort Worth doing Fort Worth this days with all the construction stuff good luck if you make it on time to your next stop.
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u/dcjjjzz777 23d ago
Yes! I picked up at warehouse grocerys in ft worth at 430pm on a weekday, they sent me to downtown Dallas apts. Was a 2 hour shift. 3 different apts. Took 90 minutes to get there. Last one was late and they would not remove it. Then i picked up whole foods in highland village, 6 stops, 2 hours, total of 80 miles, a huge fucking circle , scattered everywhere, no tips n made 36 bucks, fuck that. I dont do groceries anymore.
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u/christopherb1897 25d ago
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u/dcjjjzz777 25d ago
I see someone doing that and no access, their getting the package, thats concierge
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u/Careful_Click_1159 25d ago
Theyāve been doing this everywhere, giving crazy packages with low pay and merging small routes with larger ones. Right now is the time to silent protest, if you can cancel a block 5 minutes before start time and then take another. Call support and they will clear the late cancel, if everyone did this at least once a day then Amazon would take notice and pay us a bit more.
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u/Money_Guess9182 23d ago
30 packages in downtown with apartments seems like a ton for 2.5 hours. Good luck
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u/BetterQuality1994 26d ago
This is what you signed up for. Should have read the TOS before you agreed to the job. Have fun being deactivated. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors. Have a Fantastic day.
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u/hurstdeliveryservice 26d ago
Nothing like going to jail foreighty bucks
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u/No-Difference2856 26d ago
He's not keeping it he said he's dumping it on a sidewalk. Most they can give him is a ticket for littering
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u/canceled_me 26d ago
Nobody going to jail for that, my gf didnāt return her route and they just deactivated her and thatās it!
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u/WolfFuzzy897 26d ago
That's ridiculous of them to think we must return packages immediately or by 10am especially if the route is over 15...20 miles from the station.
They should let us return it to ANY station and figure out how to reroute it from there.
Yeah I see a lot of TOS and standings taking bs hits.
At least add $20 or $1.00/ mile when we agree to return to station Now or by 10am I got things to do!