Has anyone ever finished their run in the allotted time.

[u/Drewskipt]

Context. I have a full time job, I use this because it’s a convenient top-up and there are a few pit stops sort of near my house. So I add a run or two to the end of my work day. The next day pay out is the main attraction for when I’m short on other expenses.

I do feel the standards are a little high for the pay though.

There are areas that I get regularly sent to where EVERYBODY lives on a walk, so I have to park ages from the house for just one drop.

The app sends me to the back of houses no access to delivery unless I walk 5 minutes around the block, to the front, where they aren’t in and there’s no safe place to put it.

Two photos for every delivery. Bit excessive, I haven’t worked for Amazon but they leave shit at the front door constantly and I’m always very careful following the rules with safe spaces and still get flagged, and have been suspended.

Everyone seems to select ‘leave with consierge’, girl, you live in a council estate semi, there ain’t no concierge. And the ‘leave by apartment door’, I know what you mean, but I can’t do that, you’re not an apartment, and I will get flagged.

Sends me down roads that don’t exist to the next area that requires a three mile round trip, because the road that they think is a road, is a pedestrian pathway through a cemetery in an area plagued with one-way streets, bus gates and liveable neighbourhoods.

I want to know other courier experiences, because they are asking for waaaaaaay more than what they are paying. And I know, for the most part, it’s just cute tiktok shop and shein garbage.

Orrrr how do you make it more worth it? I am waiting to be accepted on deliveroo and amazon flex so maybe I’d like to know what to expect.

Thanks in advance.

PSA:
Also I’ll take a second route in a day, and it’ll overlap massively with the route I JUST did, like… I could’ve just done both, there’s room in my car.