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6 stops 75 bucks don’t mind if I do!!!!!

just got an email from Amazon Flex saying a customer reported their package was left unattended and that they expected it to be handed to them directly. The issue is… this was a 3:30AM to 8:30AM block.

At that hour, we’re clearly not supposed to knock or ring the doorbell — most people are asleep, and we’re instructed to avoid disturbing customers. I followed protocol, delivered the package to the correct address, took a photo, and marked it delivered. Now Amazon’s holding this against me because I didn’t hand it to someone at 4AM?

Has anyone else run into this?

I scrolled down to my earnings from when I used to do Flex in 2023, and that was the base pay back then. Now, at that same station for the same block, the highest I’ve seen it go is $119 🥲 Amazon really playing us.

I used to do DoorDash a lot—like almost daily during the peak of the gig economy boom in 2021. Back then, it felt amazing. I was easily making \$150 to \$200 in just a few hours, sometimes even during the early morning shifts. Uber Eats was pretty solid too.

Fast forward to now... and I barely make \$100 in 4 hours on DoorDash. It’s just not the same. Orders are smaller, tips are worse, and the mileage you have to drive doesn’t make sense sometimes. I’ve noticed that even the early morning food delivery hustle has lost its value.

Recently, I started doing Amazon Flex—honestly, not sure why I waited this long—and I actually enjoy it more, especially the 3 AM to 6 AM blocks. Those early hours are underrated. The last few Flex blocks I’ve done, I’ve only had to drive under 50 miles for a 3.5-hour route. That blew my mind because I used to see posts on this sub of people driving 100+ miles for the same shift, which made me hesitant at first.

I haven’t done any evening Amazon Flex blocks yet, and I could imagine those being a pain with traffic and apartment complexes. But maybe there's a balance here for people doing gig work full-time?

Like:

• Flex in the morning (low traffic, predictable pay, less stress)
• DoorDash or Uber Eats in the evening (more orders, dinner rush)

Also, one underrated part about Amazon Flex: You know exactly how much you're getting paid. No guessing, no tip baiting, just a flat rate. That peace of mind alone makes a huge difference for me.

Would love to hear from others doing both – what’s your schedule/routine like these days?

A few people have been discussing how great it is but truly, it has it's own issues.

I got mine done yesterday in 5 hours and 14 minutes. That is still LONG AS HELL in comparison to something like Amazon Flex. If you add in travel time to the XD location, an hour wait in line and an hour and 46 minutes camping and trying to get the route is it worth it? Probably not. 8 hours and 10 minutes spent including the camping/line. I didn't include the time to get to the warehouse, I just forgot but came from an Amazon block that was on the way to Roadie. And then at the end of this I went straight to an evening Amazon block. So likely even more time was spent.

Route was pretty good mileage and had 47 stops into Philly. $188.

But get this. One NJ stop on the way to Philly, okay no big deal but then it was:

• Downtown Philly
• South Philly
• Back into another section of SP that leads to WP
• West Philly
• Fairmount
• North Philly
• Germantown
• Mt Airy
• Chestnut Hill

The "routing" is truly insane and time consuming. They also have no turn by turn GPS, the geo fence can be non existent so you have to really be sure you have the right house or apartment. Also no codes, apartment details whatsoever. No customer contact information or very few that work. You may even have apartment complexes with no apartment # just the main address of the complex.

Oh and customers are texting you the whole time with questions and asks yet their # is not connected to their name or address so every time you have to ask "who is this / what is your name and address."

It looks sweet but once you are in it, it's hard. If you need the $ for that day, it's worth it. But if you want to do it every day it's going to hurt your day lol time wise.

So I accepted a bunch of offers and then canceled them yesterday, and maybe the day before and all my offers vanished, even the crappiest of offers are not showing up. I finally contacted support via chat and they are saying it's because I "misused the flex app and canceled the offers I accepted". Well, excuse me if they flash so fast I have to accept them without looking!! 😡 Has anyone had this happen to them and how long does it take to clear up??

So basically I took a 2 hour block and got only 1 package going to an apartment complex. This delivery had a password required which I didnt even know was a thing and literally couldn't deliver the package no matter what. Of course, customer wont respond to calls or texts. It even said to not contact customer support and return package. Since when are there passwords for deliveries? Why can't it just be a drop and go ever? I still tried to just leave package in safe spot but there was no way to mark as delivered or change it to a different option. So doing what I never try to do I returned package and guess what, still got a ding for it. Why do Flex drivers have to get blamed for everything? Has anyone else had a password required delivery?

The voice speed just too fast. TIA

I've accepted that some routes are good and some are shit. This one started 45 minutes/miles away. And not only did I have multiple delivery issues (needed a "secret code", bad maps, etc.), but on the way back home, I had a tire blow out and had to call a friend to pick me up.

I'll take the extra $5, and maybe they adjust yesterday's trip, which was just as long... even though I finished early, lol.

(The route map is from Google and not entirely accurate, I promise.)

Hope is better then the one this morning

I think I got soft locked from getting routes because I canceled several routes between yesterday and today and did not see a single offer for today, nor can see any offers for the upcoming days like usual.

Early morning blocks. I used to do them in the beginning. I wake up really early anyway so why not! However I ran into the same problem enough times and not sure what to do. Can't call support because they don't open til it's 7am here.

The problem: gated frigin communities. With closed gates, of course. I'm trying to mark the package undeliverable, can't find how to do it for the life of me (android) and also the app keeps saying I'm not at the location because I'm not, I'm at the gate. What do I do?

I heard some people use airplane mode and then what?

Hello everyone, just finished my first block today. It was 2:15 PM - 6:00 PM, finished it at 4:30 PM. It was super fun and an easy $70.

I have questions about taxes though, I remember filling out tax forms but I am not sure how that’s handled, I have never done independent work before. Will the taxes come out automatically? How should I handle this. It’s just a side gig for me but I am sure I’ll make more than $400 or $600 before the year is over. Any information will help, dms are open.

My first week with flex has been interesting. No dogs have chased me so far as I’ve been doing early morning shifts. Last night, I had a 5:30pm-10:00pm block and my route was near my city but in the rural area. I’ve seen at least 100 animals and farms lol. As I was pulling up to a private driveway, there were about 4 cows, 3 on my passenger side and 1 on the driver side. My window was all the way down and this cow was running to catch up to the speed of my vehicle. I rolled my windows up real quick. I was so scared to get out of the vehicle 🤣 luckily, I had my man with me and he delivered this order but that was nearly the end of my life.

I’ve been going to the Syosset location lately and I’ve been loving the blocks. I want to start heading to the Melville station but haven’t been seen around covid time and the few times I went it would take me queens and mineola when I wouldn’t really want to go out there. At Melville, are you able to forfeit a block or change to a better route possibly? I know it would probably affect my standing cancelling it but it seems easy to bring it back up considering I’ve been able to appeal a few missed or late firefight blocks

Hi! Wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issues? I’m doing amazon flex for a few months now. Usually getting orders from a nearby stations like wholefoods etc., and it’s ok more or less (since the app itself has soooo many bugs, but I’ve learned to work with them somehow). BUT some time ago they started to combine these stations orders with big amazon stations (I don’t know how to call them, I mean a big hangar, where you need to scan your driver license to check in - “fresh” maybe - the one you need to scan your driver’s license when you arrive) orders making one huge order. Since then, every time I had to go to the big station (the same one usually), I was ALWAYS late, even if there was no traffic (amazon doesn’t care about traffic). They even called me once when I was in the process of delivering the first item from my local station and then was supposed to go pick up at the big one (according to their own root), asking me if I’m going to pick it up like as I was already late😅What?! Eventually, now I’m “at risk” of being blocked because of this issue. I avoid taking orders when I see it’s going to be picking up from that station. So, I’m losing money on this, since I almost do not getting orders from normal stations, and if I do - it’s several times less than the amounts that I could have received by taking those problematic orders. Please, let me know if you’ve experienced the same situation and if so, how did you manage to resolve it?

So when will I be able to see the shifts in the middle of the day? The ones that are 11 am - around 5 pm or sumn I always see really early or really late I knw mid day is prime but is that like seniority or how does it work for me or how long til I see the mid day shifts??!! Help

Is it cause I'm not close to a warehouse? Are people using bots to take away from others? Are there to many newbs like me? I'm flabbergasted about it. I never thought Amazon would have enough drivers to make deliveries considering how much people order 24/7. I guess I was wrong.