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When I saw the tweet I was thinking about fulfillment too. I didn't even know Amazon emoloyed delivery drivers.
by k__ 6y ago
When I saw the tweet I was thinking about fulfillment too.
I didn't even know Amazon emoloyed delivery drivers.
- BoorishBears 6y agoIn some locales they use services like Lasership, but in less densely populated areas they have their own last mile infrastructure (This is of course separate from people who drive actual Prime delivery vans, who seem to be everywhere)
- umanwizard 6y agoIt’s not just less dense areas. I’ve recently started getting deliveries from Amazon drivers at my office in lower Manhattan.
- BoorishBears 6y agoAre you sure it's not Lasership? I live in Downtown Brooklyn and between here my last place in Midtown and my work's offices in Kips Bay I've never seen an individual deliver with a private vehicle in Doesn't really make sense unless the building itself just isn't getting that many orders
- ceejayoz 6y agoSeems like every third vehicle in my area is an Amazon branded van these days.
- lupire 6y agoBut they are largely (supposedly, but not really) "independent" contractors.
- opencl 6y agoThe drivers themselves are not independent contractors. They are employees of "Delivery Service Provider" companies that contract with Amazon. Except for the Amazon Flex program where random people can run small routes in their own cars, those people are indeed not-really-independent contractors. But they account for a very small fraction of packages delivered.
- k__ 6y agoIn Germany, they use DHL and Hermes.
- intellirogue 6y agoPerhaps where you are, but in Berlin they have their own vans and drivers.
- addicted 6y agoWell, obviously if you didn’t know that Amazon employed (or subcontracted delivery drivers) you would not think the tweet was referencing delivery drivers. That does not mean that people who are correctly informed about this thinking that it would also include delivery drivers are wrong.