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Amazon delivery drivers complain about poor work conditions
Amazon delivery drivers are asked to drop off up to 200 packages a day, are paid less than minimum wage and urinate in bottles because there's no time to take a break, according to a new investigation. Drivers told The Sunday Mirror that they regularly work longer than the legal-maximum 11-hour days and break speed limits to meet delivery goals, which don't take into account traffic jams, road closures or weather problems.
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This must mostly apply to overseas, UK specific Amazon. In the US Amazon deliveries work a lot like Uber, Flex drivers download an app and sign up for blocks of time they are available, you then go to the Amazon pickup location and get the packages for your time block and deliver them. You work as many blocks of time as you want to sign up for.
The source is a British tabloid you wouldn’t even line your hamster cage with. In this article, they’ve hijacked another tabloid’s original story and headlined their version, demurely for them, “Amazon drivers ‘are asked to deliver up to 200 parcels a day for less than the minimum wage and they even have to urinate into bottles to keep pace.’” Which isn’t all that far off from the way Flex drivers are made to compete with one another for shifts in the Octagon.
So, you're saying I can only use this to line my bird cages, got it!
On the plus side it is, as they say, the UK’s leading brand of fishwrap.