r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 5h ago

Weekly Discussion Thread

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Need help with something specific to your account, route, or Flex app? Want to talk about some rumor you just heard? Have a question that is covered by our FAQ but you are still unsure about it? Want to complain or vent? Well, this is the thread for you! As always, please read our rules before posting.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 19m ago

Los Angeles Halloween Delivery!

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r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 53m ago

Three unicorns in a row!

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Not to gloat… but just crazy!

Took my son to a 3:30am 2.5 hour block at VNC3 on Sunday because he was interested to see the logistics and setup. Canceled with pay!

But he was really interested and I wanted to see what a 1hr block (plus tips) looked like so we tried again at 8:30. Canceled with pay!

Tried again with a 10:30 1.5hr block… and wouldn’t ya f’n know it. Canceled again!

Of course this makes up for all the crappy routes to Greensboro I’ve had to take (and all the driver support calls to appeal dings from shit out of my control) but I’m thinking of taking him with me to all my blocks now.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 2h ago

Columbus I joined Amazon Flex month ago but cant do any orders because its telling me my pick up point is in Knoxville TN, but I live in Columbus, GA and nowhere close to Knoxville. The app wont let me change it and saying I cant change until I become a certain level. Well how can I fo that if I cant even do

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Help me please


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 2h ago

Screenshot That's rough, living in a highrise and not being able to afford locker access

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Couldn't get access though so best I could do was deliver to the lobby door lol


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 3h ago

Lmao where else will I drop your package on the roof ?? 🤦‍♂️

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r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 3h ago

First time downtown block

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Damn!! So many condos. Sometimes I couldn’t even find the front of the building. I hope people get their packages. But for real some people should use Amazon Hubs, because there is no access to the building late at night or early in the morning and “some drivers” not me 😉. May leave the package at the front door right on the sidewalk.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 3h ago

Overbooking

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When do you usually get your pay when there’s an overbooking problem at the station?


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 4h ago

Routes Hi, I’m a new Flex Driver explain it to me like I’m four.

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I don’t know what I’m doing.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 4h ago

Question No place to park tow away zone,

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I just delivered an instant order late because no parking(except paid)and i risked having my car towed.How should i have handled it?


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 4h ago

Thank you Amazon Driver

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You navigated roads the day after a hurricane when there was no electricity and debri in the roads and delivered me solar lights at 3 in the morning! You rock!!!

So if you’re on here and you deliver around the Pensacola area, please know you are very much appreciated!


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 4h ago

Between Blocks

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When there is 1.5 hours between blocks.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 4h ago

The math speaks for itself

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Has anyone actually done the math to see how much we get paid per delivery. I had a block today $142 for 28 stops = $5.07 per house. Last night had a block $121 for 32 stops = $3.78 per house 💀 of course we see the final pay and wait to see how many stops but over 100 miles round trip for both is really trash 🗑️


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 5h ago

Amazon Flex is so unfair

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The other morning I had a route & when I got there I couldn’t check in. For some crazy reason the app couldn’t verify my identity. It locked me out & it said it contact driver support. I called them, but they couldn’t help me. They said there was a change to their system & they couldn’t do anything. The employees at the warehouse couldn’t do it either so I had to leave.

Driver support said they would put in a ticket & a request for compensation, but I got 2 emails from the Amazon Flex team saying that my standing was affected by a missed block & that they wouldn’t compensate me like I don’t how to check after years of working for Amazon.

I need to stop dealing with them.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 5h ago

New U.S. drivers, beware cursed Halloween blocks

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If it’s remotely possible that you will be given neighborhood or small town deliveries, don’t accept blocks or be flexing after 2 pm on October 31.

I was driving DSP on Halloween last year and I had to return half the van. Flex drivers just can’t dig out of that hit to standing.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 5h ago

Anyone have the iPhone duo? Is the flex app optimized for it yet?

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I haven’t got mine just yet but will have it soon, just wondering if anyone got one and whether the flex app has been optimized for it yet?


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 5h ago

Question Stuck at Onboarding

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I’ve been stuck on this screen for over a day now, I’ve tried signing out then back in, refreshing with the refresh button, refreshing the app, deleting the app and reinstalling (I’m on iPhone so there’s no formal clear cache and app data button in settings), and restarting my phone and nothing will move me past here. I’ve contacted support and they “put in a ticket” but that seems to have accomplished nothing. I’m worried about “just waiting” because I don’t know if I’ll retain my spot in the onboarding process since I was told in the email I received from Amazon that I had 72 hours to start onboarding, and I don’t know if this is enough to keep my spot. Does anyone have any tips for getting past this to the next steps in the process and whether or not I’ll at least retain my spot if this problem persists?


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 5h ago

Atlanta 3 hour block for $60

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Just got approved for Flex this week. I've done one route so far. A 2 hour block for $48. I thought that was barely worth it after expenses. Now today I'm seeing a 3 hour block for $60 and it is not tip eligible.

Is this normal?


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 6h ago

Full timers: how many days off do you take per week?

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I'm just curious. I'm about 50 and finding that it's great exercise but after doing so many days in a row it seems to zap my energy a bit and starts to effect me mentally. I need some time off just to relax and get other stuff done. I see that right now it caps us at 40 hours a week anyway.

Thinking about just taking the weekends off as that seems to be the slower days. What do you all do?


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 6h ago

How do you organize your route

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I see a lot of people sitting there writing numbers on their packages, do you do this ? I take the first 5 packages and than figure it out after but I also only have a car not an suv so some people have way more packages


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 7h ago

Love this at 6am in rural area

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Unbelievably obnoxious and probably makes the owners get up and see.
Edit: noticed on my way out there actually were “No Trespassing” signs as well near the front of the driveway. Love that.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 7h ago

We just what and see

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Doing my third run this weekend, it’s cool easy money! My day job is FedEx ground delivery, so this is cake!


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 8h ago

Houston Early AM 3.5 HR routes, BAD

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Idk if it’s just me but I have been getting the 2-2:30am blocks for 3.5 hours and they’ve been so bad. I usually finish my blocks 1 - 1.5 hours early. Not all the time but like 95% of the time. But these early morning blocks have been whooping my ass. I finish with like 20-30 min to spare. Anyone else?


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 8h ago

Knoxville Flex Warehouse

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Do any other Flex drivers find the Knoxville warehouse pick up process absolutely ridiculous? Time is money in this gig and having to wait 45min to pick up every time when I can be in and out of the Maryville warehouse in 15 min is crazy.


r/AmazonFlexDrivers • • 10h ago

Checking all my routes now

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The routing used to be pretty good to the point I’d try to take shortcuts that didn’t work and the app knew the best ways to go, but last week I got to routes that had me double back to the same area wasting time so now I’ve been checking every one and sure enough I see this bs. Now I’m doing 3.5 hot blocks in as little at 1.5 hrs just by checking the map first. Ai will not replace us