r/Glasgow Tools

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Author	Torran_Toi
Comment	I did Flex for a while last year. First. You do not get to pick and choose your hours in the way you probably think. How it works is this.. You accept "blocks". These blocks are usually 3 or 4 hours long. They have a set start time. So, a 3hr block might appear for 9am till 12pm for example. You must be on time and you must complete the delivery run within that window. The hard part is getting blocks. They appear on the app largely at random and it's first come first served. Fastest finger first. You have split seconds to accept it before hundreds of others do. You can get sent some reserved blocks direct to you, but not a lot. There were runs of days when I was getting nothing. When I was getting to win blocks I never made more than £100 in any single week... before fuel. Which is the next issue. The warehouse is in Newhouse near Motherwell. You will need to waste fuel before every block just getting there. There is a glasgow warehouse in Kinning park, but that warehouse only does the deliveries for food orders, which are are all 1 or 2 hour blocks only and a total pain on fuel again because you need to return to the warehouse at the end of each block to return the cooler bags. Earnings wise. I never seen anything above around £13 per hour turnover. Take off fuel and you're making less than a tenner an hour. That might sound good, but you don't get enough blocks per week to make it worthwhile. I've not even factored in insurance. Insurance. Amazon do provide insurance cover for free for the first 6 weeks or so. So you don't need to worry about that. I don't know how much it would cost for a policy after that. When it came time to get my own policy I gave it up as it was just pointless. £13 per hour minus fuel and minus insurance... coupled with the low amount of hours you'll get.... nobody is getting to take home anything better than about £80 per week. I took it on thinking it would make a nice supplemental earner to add in on the taxis quieter hours, but I could never get blocks to fit into those hours. It is not a good earner. It's a side income at best, but making it fit an existing schedule is impossible.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/einjvd/amazon_flex_delivery_driver_job/fcswk8n/
Created	Thu 2nd Jan 2020 1:02am
Status	normal ()

I did Flex for a while last year.

First. You do not get to pick and choose your hours in the way you probably think. How it works is this..

You accept "blocks". These blocks are usually 3 or 4 hours long. They have a set start time. So, a 3hr block might appear for 9am till 12pm for example. You must be on time and you must complete the delivery run within that window.

The hard part is getting blocks. They appear on the app largely at random and it's first come first served. Fastest finger first. You have split seconds to accept it before hundreds of others do. You can get sent some reserved blocks direct to you, but not a lot.

There were runs of days when I was getting nothing. When I was getting to win blocks I never made more than £100 in any single week... before fuel. Which is the next issue.

The warehouse is in Newhouse near Motherwell. You will need to waste fuel before every block just getting there. There is a glasgow warehouse in Kinning park, but that warehouse only does the deliveries for food orders, which are are all 1 or 2 hour blocks only and a total pain on fuel again because you need to return to the warehouse at the end of each block to return the cooler bags.

Earnings wise. I never seen anything above around £13 per hour turnover. Take off fuel and you're making less than a tenner an hour. That might sound good, but you don't get enough blocks per week to make it worthwhile. I've not even factored in insurance.

Insurance. Amazon do provide insurance cover for free for the first 6 weeks or so. So you don't need to worry about that. I don't know how much it would cost for a policy after that. When it came time to get my own policy I gave it up as it was just pointless.

£13 per hour minus fuel and minus insurance... coupled with the low amount of hours you'll get.... nobody is getting to take home anything better than about £80 per week.

I took it on thinking it would make a nice supplemental earner to add in on the taxis quieter hours, but I could never get blocks to fit into those hours.

It is not a good earner. It's a side income at best, but making it fit an existing schedule is impossible.