![]() You can never make that, so you end up never taking your breaks or lunch so that you can catch up. The Amazon app gives you only two minutes to deliver a package and get to the next dropoff. Normally we work four 10-hour days, but during the weeks after each Prime day we end up working five days. It is one day for them, but it becomes two weeks for us where we have the extra loads. Amazon just had a Prime day (October 12 and 13). ![]() But during Prime days, that number goes up to 250 packages. We are expected to deliver about 200 packages a day. Sometimes they want us loaded and out in 6 minutes. There will be a manager who will be yelling at us over the loudspeaker to hurry up. We have 20 minutes to load up our trucks and get out of the dock. I start my day around 9:30 and drive 50 minutes to the Amazon warehouse, where I pick up my truck, phone, charger and other equipment for the day. However, it is Amazon which is setting the standards and forcing the conditions we work under. It also makes it harder for us to organize since we all work for a thousand different contractors. This way Amazon can deny that they are the cause of our working conditions. One of the ways that Amazon keeps us divided is by having us work for a thousand different DSPs so it hard to say who is responsible for how we are treated, the DSP or Amazon. ![]() I deliver for Amazon, but I work for a contractor called a DSP (Delivery Service Partner). Rented trucks being loaded at Amazon warehouse. ![]()
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