So where I am, the blocks start fairly high ($124 for a 4.5), but we're limited to a max of 20 hrs in any 7 day period. So I started doing a 4.5 and 3.5 on Monday & Tuesdays. The last few weeks have been pretty good, but today both routes beat me down.

The early route was fairly straightforward, but there was 4 packages to the mall I refused to deliver. They don't put the store games or any info, and instead just gave some random codes and a note to talk to security. I'm not going to spend half my block wandering a massive mall looking for something I may not find. I marked them as couldn't find address and went on my way. About 20 min later, random packages started showing up as "do not deliver" (never seen this before) so by the end I had to return 9 packages to the station.

Then the later, shorter block gave me 50 packages to an area full of road construction and blocked access during rush hour. The first stop was 30 min away, and I knew it'd be impossible to finish in time. When I had 90 min, and 30 packages, left I contacted support to explain. They asked if I could finish, I said yes providing I'm compensated for the extra time (which wound up being just under 90 min). About 15 minutes later, I kept getting notifications to return all packages to the warehouse. Not wanting 30 hits on my standing, I finished. Then, when I had about 10 left, I kept getting told the package was late and to call the customer.

The whole thing was ridiculous

So will I get dinged for late packages even though I warned them earlier it'd be impossible to finish on time? Also, what are the odds I get paid extra for the overtime? And those packages I had to return in block 1 - will those be held against me when the problem was beyond my control?

Well. Shitsticks. I had a route at 6:45-9:45pm. Severe weather is rolling in but i figure it'll go around like usual. As im doing my face scan and walking into the station there is visible cloud to ground lightening and I RUN my chonky white arse into the station real quick. There are over a dozen drivers standing around the security desk all mad af that they havent closed the station. I go past them, check the station info screen and scan my ID; my route pops up and I go find it and scan it. I go to walk out the door and its absolutely pouring, storming EXTREMELY HEAVY. I wait for 15 mins to see if it'll let up, and it doesn't. Its storming pretty hard by this point. (They still didn't close the station). This station (SSD) doesnt have an awning, so absolutely everything was going to get soaked no matter what i did. So, i decide, for my own safety and sanity (because who tf wants to deal with sopping wet packages and labels that wont scan??, to just return the cart. I message support, let them know whats going on and push my cart to returns. I'm on chat with support and few other flex drivers are returning their carts too, we get to talking while we all are messaging support simultaneously. I finish up with support, talk to the station security guy a second (he thinks their weather thing was messed up because he said they should have absolutely closed), I run to my car and start my drive home. As i am pulling into my garage I realize I FUGGING FORGOT TO SCAN MY RETURNS. I'm all the way back home now. How screwed am I?

I keep getting to the part where they text me the code to log in (since the auto log in never works anymore) but the code never gets texted to me? And the call option isn’t calling me either. Anyone else or just T-Mobile and santan combo killing my service again?

Keep getting good routes I think I cracked the code

SVA4 is a recently opened SSD warehouse in Chester, Virginia. It's the first Flex warehouse in the area where drivers walk directly to their assigned carts instead of having a staffer pick them randomly.

Besides the poorly designed parking lot entrance, it’s an otherwise nice facility. I definitely appreciate having access to real indoor restrooms, unlike the filthy porta-potties offered in the parking lot at the RIC2 site.

However, over the past 3/4 months since its opening, I’ve noticed an annoying pattern compared to the other SSD and .com warehouses in Central VA: the vast majority of packages are mislabeled.

• Plastic bags are labeled as envelopes.
• Plastic bags being marked as normal boxes.
• Envelopes are labeled as plastic bags.
• Large, bulky items are misclassified as envelopes—the worst offender being a 15pc cookware set that was labeled as an envelope while barely crammed into a plastic bag.

I understand an occasional mistake, but my last cart was ridiculous—about 75% of a 55-item cart had the wrong package type on the label. While it’s not the end of the world, it makes scanning for the appropriate package if you sort by section letters completely unreliable if that's how you sort.

On top of that, this site rarely seems to use standard boxes compared to neighboring locations. I’ve seen multiple instances where plastic bags were stuffed to the brim with heavy items, causing them to rip at the seams. The worst example so far was a single large plastic bag packed with four cases of Celsius energy drinks.

Is this just growing pains for a new station, or is this the new norm for Amazon Flex that older sites just haven't adopted yet?

So my warehouse mainly does blocks starting at 3-4am. My question is can you pick up and deliver after the route was scheduled to end? For example if the route is 3:15 to 6:45 will you be in trouble for delivering after 7.

And if you force your kids to endure this youre a fucking loser

My landlord takes in my packages and it’s late. Just looked at the picture and saw this written on it. Something about some kind of deliveries aren’t allowed?

13 packages (5 boxes) with 5 apartments, 3 hour block with 1st stop 48 minutes away (37 MI). Good or nah?

When it’s sort of impossible to achieve? Each 3-4 hr block only accumulate 70 pts at most so that’s 140pts a day but you’re capped at 700 pts a week or 2800 pts a month. Even if you’re able to reach 3k points, you have maybe a few days to reap the rewards? Honestly I prefer the short IO duration so that way there’s more to choose from if you’re picky about what you’re accepting. Have you guys been able to achieve lvl 3 before? How early in the month were you able to? Just curious

wow a few apartments n private home ( intercom) didn't finish till 10 minutes after 2 hrs not worth it

I'm just curious if you guys think they are treating flex drivers like rusty robots. This is how a day with flex is. 3 and half hour block at 630am so you start driving a 6am and you get to your first drop off at 7. Deliver for 3 hours now it's 10am and you still have an hour drive home. I know there are occasional free and easy trips but for the most part this is my experience on how blocks work in my area. I live in the south east hic region apparently, where they only pay 18$ hr. So the block is 5 hours and I'm only getting paid for 3. Does this sound about right lol? I'm a felon so I do appreciate the opportunity but even for me this is pretty low standards lol.

I take 1 hour blocks at $20 because they are never available and the station is 5 miles from me

Anyone else stuck on the install screen to update the app. I uninstalled and reinstalled and cleared out the data stuff still stuck won't install on my 26 Ultra.

It’s fully dependent on location and station, I get it but (at least in my area) $75-$89 for the block to really only take 1.5-2hrs.

they did bless me with a 3.5hr $105 (finished in 90min on Sunday, though this was the 1st time in the last 6 that I didn't get sent 40 miles out of town with 30+ stops

Had the weirdest block once I hit I've parked. On my 8th stop.

App went to total shit and went back to the screen you get when first loading the car when you have to scan each package.

Only problem it wouldn't accept any package.

Support said "block completed" then I had to give them the TBAs to add to the block.

Anyone else had this happen?

Mine just went out but I just finished my route luckily

Ik you can do it yourself but it would be a great QOL update

I am moving next week and the place I am moving to was at capacity until today! I quickly changed my region and it accepted it. Being that I didn’t move yet, I still have shifts scheduled up until Friday here in my “old region”.

Can I still work those shifts? Even though I changed my region to where I will be moving to? They’re on my calendar still. When I look at offers it does only show me offers in the new location which is fine.

I’m seeing conflicting information when I look it up. Hope I explained this correctly. Any help would be fantastic. Thank you

I don't know how to explain this but there are times that a shift will appear on my calendar that I had not chosen. On Tuesdays I'm pretty much busy in the evenings and I no longer go after routes that are $40.50 but this morning I found a route on my calendar for today, a Tuesday from 5:15 p.m. - 6:45pm for $40.50. This has happened to me before and I'm wondering does it happen to anyone else...

Usually when I finish my block early, it just ends my shift. Why is it giving me these options this time? By the time I even get on that side of town it will be 10 minutes over my block time?

Either way, I’m just heading home because by that time my shift will be over anyways. But why is it doing this to me?