![]() After driving into the warehouse and parking, I found an Amazon rep who had a QR code I scanned with the app that checked me in. I had a nervous excitement, kind of like arriving on the first day of a job. I rolled up and waited in a long line of cars also working the same shift. (Note: I’m donating my earnings to GeekWire’s Geeks Give Back campaign to support the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship) They were quite different - one evening I only had to deliver three packages and made $60, while a week later I spent nearly three hours on a Saturday afternoon stopping at more than 35 different houses within a half-mile of each other. I’ve done two shifts for orders and made $118.50 total, not counting gas expenses and overall wear and tear on my car. The slick Amazon Flex app powers everything, from scanning your packages at a pickup center, to figuring out what routes to take, to ultimately confirming that an order has been delivered - which includes taking photos of packages left at a doorstep. But it’s also relatively simple, thanks to Amazon’s impressive technology and demand for more people to deliver packages. It’s not a glamorous high-paying job by any means - you’re a contractor, not an employee, using your own car and paying for your own gas without any direct benefits from Amazon. My experience thus far has been fascinating and actually sort of fun during the holidays, when many are relying on Amazon for their gift shopping. Getting ready to deliver an Amazon package from my car with the Amazon Flex app in use on my smartphone. Amazon Flex covers not only orders, but also items from Prime Now, the company’s two-hour delivery service AmazonFresh, its grocery delivery service and Amazon Restaurants.
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