Posted on 11/12/2018 2:13:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Amazon is hiring its own fleet of full-time drivers to deliver packages to Prime customers. Amazon will manage these drivers directly, meaning the company will set their wages, provide them delivery vehicles, and schedule their routes. Amazon has previously relied on delivery services provided by UPS, FedEx, and the US Postal Service, as well as contractors employed through its Flex delivery program and third-party courier companies it calls delivery service partners. At a recent Amazon training for the new program, drivers were told the company "didn't want people peeing in bottles," a source told Business Insider.
Amazon is launching a new last-mile shipping program this holiday season.
For the first time, the company is planning to hire and manage thousands of full-time drivers to transport packages to customers from Amazon delivery outposts across the US, the company confirmed to Business Insider on Monday.
Amazon will manage these drivers directly, meaning the company will set their wages, provide them delivery vehicles, and schedule their routes. The drivers are seasonal but will have the option to apply to continue their employment with Amazon following the holiday season.
"Seasonal employees have long been utilized to supplement capacity during peak shopping periods," an Amazon spokeswoman said. "This holiday, thousands of full-time, seasonal Delivery Associates will deliver to customers during the busy retail shopping season."(continued)
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That feature is not always there but as your package gets nearer to delivery, Amazon will tell you how many stops away they are from yours.
I know that the USPS has been complaining about they’re losing money on Amazon deliveries.
Now they get to find out how much they’re losing with NO Amazon deliveries.
Cool. Thanks.
Amazon has been building to this for a while. They get tired of having their business effected by other companies’ labor disputes. Soon it will be more than just the last mile.
Proving their own modern GPS and communication equipped cars managing these people will be very easy. They’ll know where the employees are and for how long. The cars manage the employees.
What happens to UPS when one of their employees rapes somebody? NOTHING.
If I recall correctly that is what the Beltway Snipers were doing, except they were peeing in jugs.
A 30 day seasonal job, where the big bear Amazon will micro manage your driving from afar in their safe cubicals ...
... what could go wrong.
The street homeless already get paid with free food and a cot.
Catheters for all. Just run a long hose down your pant leg. please only pee after you have left the truck.
bogus headline ... i read the quote as meaning amazon didn’t want drivers skipping pee breaks and lunch breaks ..
“hand final delivery over to the USPS has been a horrible mistake”
i’ve had zero trouble with local USPS .. they’ve been golden ... now what HAS been a nightmare is when amazon uses onTrac to make deliveries: stuff tossed in snowy ditches at night without notification, stuff not showing up at all, stuff marked online as delivered when it wasn’t, maybe or maybe not showing up mysteriously on the doorstep in the middle of the night AFTER being marked as delivered ... each time something like that happened, I immediately called amazon and complained bitterly about the lying of non-delivery, demanding replacement order delivered overnight for free ... and should the original order ever show up, i just kept it for my trouble without telling amazon ... i figured if the SoBs lost enough money with onTrac, they’d eventually quit using them ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=ontrac+revews+OR+ratings
Here in Seattle they allow their employees to deliver packages on their way home from work, over lunch hour, etc. (The employees make some money off it). One time the doorbell rang, and as I get to the door there is a package, and a nice Audi driving away. I mentioned to my daughter that was odd for an Uber driver in such a nice car. She explained it was probably an Amazon employee.
FedEx deems this too risky. Terrorism and advertising your position to thieves, etc.
Please see my post 53...
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They don't have to have it on GPS, all you need is some willing stealing thugs to wait at the entrance to pretty much any subdivision in America and then follow the FedEX/UPS truck around the neighborhood to pick up the packages left on doorsteps.
That's what was going in in my neighborhood!
You are absolutely correct. Fred Smith calls the trucks, “rolling billboards”. They are meant to be visible.
However - and this plays into one of my truths of life - The lawyers and safety guys look at posting public GPS as handing someone an extra tool, and they are “agin it”.
And terrorists, not necessarily thugs, are the bigger concern, for reasons I’ll not post here...
(My life truth? “If something stupid is going on, there’s either a lawyer or tax man behind it. Congress is both.”
And i found out that at least on my route, packages are marked delivered when loaded on the truck, not when delivered. Thus I have had a package marked delivered when it was next door.
I found a Amazon delivery man parked on the road in front of our door - which has a working doorbell and instructions to deliver men to ring it, and leave packages inside, as the door is not locked - way back (60’) near the end of the building where some bicycles were. Me thinks he was checking them out.
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