UBER for Packages = Amazon Flex
#41
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What if the person at your door was just a young damsel being chased through the woods by an amazon rapist?
#42
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Good point. If I thought someone was in distress, yeah, I'd help. However, the only ladies who have come to our door (besides friends, neighbors and delivery people) have been trying to sell us something or save our souls. I should just put out a sign, saying, "Don't bother!"
#43
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My FedEx delivery guy is kind of a dick, but I always open for him, in case it's required to sign for a package. However, I don't open the door for a random stranger that isn't obviously there for a delivery or a service I'm expecting. Some random person without a uniform, with their personal car....if I haven't ordered a pizza, nobody is answering the door.
#44
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As well, a large number of shop-from-home folks happen to be of the female variety, and for sure, many of them would not be opening the door for a stranger. Hell, I've been married to my wife for 46 years and there are times when she still won't open the door for me.
#46
Hate to break it to you guys, but Amazon has been testing out the uber model for a while. I buy nearly everything online and have noticed Amazon trying a bunch of new things.
FedEx delivered one of my packages to a post office and had the USPS bring it to my door. Another time, UPS delivered it to a dry cleaners down the road from me and sent me an email telling me to pick it up myself. And finally, another time, a regular guy used his personal car to bring me a package. It was no big deal since I had all the tracking information, had the guys name, and could watch the guy get closer and closer. It was my choice to open the door or not.
In all of those cases, I don't recall ever selecting those delivery options. The best one was the regular guy delivering it to me. It was a pain seeing "delivered" status on the FedEx and UPS websites only to find out the package was not actually at my house.
No offense, but Amazon is preparing for the future and does not care the way older generations think delivery services should operate. Just like people who will hold on to their land lines until they die, certain people won't trust uber style deliveries. They will pay a couple bucks more and get their stuff a little later, but either way, Amazon gets paid.
FedEx delivered one of my packages to a post office and had the USPS bring it to my door. Another time, UPS delivered it to a dry cleaners down the road from me and sent me an email telling me to pick it up myself. And finally, another time, a regular guy used his personal car to bring me a package. It was no big deal since I had all the tracking information, had the guys name, and could watch the guy get closer and closer. It was my choice to open the door or not.
In all of those cases, I don't recall ever selecting those delivery options. The best one was the regular guy delivering it to me. It was a pain seeing "delivered" status on the FedEx and UPS websites only to find out the package was not actually at my house.
No offense, but Amazon is preparing for the future and does not care the way older generations think delivery services should operate. Just like people who will hold on to their land lines until they die, certain people won't trust uber style deliveries. They will pay a couple bucks more and get their stuff a little later, but either way, Amazon gets paid.
Last edited by 2StgTurbine; 01-05-2016 at 01:39 PM.
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No offense, but Amazon is preparing for the future and does not care the way older generations think delivery services should operate. Just like people who will hold on to their land lines until they die, certain people won't trust uber style deliveries. They will pay a couple bucks more and get their stuff a little later, but either way, Amazon gets paid.
It's only ironic because these are the liberal California tech company's spearheading the biggest anti-labor movement in this country.
PS, your not an independent contractor if you can't send someone in your place to do your job. A real 1099 sub-contractor can send whoever he wants to represent him to perform the task to the contracted standard.
#50
yep, that why the IRS shut all those 1099 ride sharing programs down; oh wait......
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