Is doing Amazon FLEX UK as a side hustle worth it in 2024? (3 hour block)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- Here is a video from a 3 hour block I picked up not too long ago.
Obviously everyone's experiences are different with Amazon FLEX.
This particular block happened to be quite a nice one.
In my opinion, doing Amazon FLEX is only worth it if you live quite close to your local depot and you have an economical car.
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Would you deliver parcels for that much money? 👀
money is money my friend , and anyone who says different obviously hasn’t read the richest man in babilon 😂
£109 for 4.5 hours today two block timers for 5.5 hours but I finished early. 60 miles all in.
@@CobraLife that’s decent 👌🏼
I work for Evri and need to deliver around 100 parcels which takes about 3.5 to 4 hours and can earn about £45-65 depending on type of parcels.
Not great but I got my own round and work 6 days a week so know I got work there. Job is great except when it raining and when it's really hot.
60 miles about 20£ for diesel 89£ for for 5h is not worth it,breaking the car etc
Enjoyed that vid mate. Not sure how/why the algorithm threw it my way but I’m now subscribed! 😂👏👏
Cheers mate! Welcome 🤝🏼
Great vid mate. I think it's better to scan the packages individually than the totes, as sometimes there are parcels that are either missing or extra, which becomes a faff deal with.
Yea definitely more accurate. I usually scan the bags, then if there are any missing, i scan individually as i put them in the car to find the rogue ones
Just found your channel. I love it
Thank you 🤝🏼
Thanks such a nice video with many info however I have a question do u need to have any type of car or doesn't matter if it's euro 4 euro 5 for example many thanks
I work from the same depot as you, I prefer the afternoon blocks. It's difficult sometimes finding out the way places in the daylight let alone the night time!
I prefer the lanes in the nighttime because you can see the headlights from further away, but finding house numbers are an absolute nightmare in the dark!
When u showed ur phone screen, Noticed something that make me smile, May god protect u brother.
Alhamdullilah thank you brother
@@tommywillsalhamdulilah bro
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19 drops yesterday, £58 - they were a little bit more spaced out than the usual 35/38 but still done in 2 hours from scanning to last drop...what did annoy me was a number of customers clearly had further parcels left earlier in the day - but they were so obvious! One literally at the front door step on a completely open new build estate (mine went through the letterbox)...does make me worry it will affect my standing if any complaints are attributed to someone elses shoddy delivery.
Any complaints will be linked to each QR code/Parcel. When you contact customer service the first thing they will ask the customer is what product it related to
Your videos are great
Thanks for that
Drivers shouldn't encourage the blocks are easy because mostly they are actually difficult and there are so many things can go wrong and delay your moves as you know better. Amazon now pushing so many parcels beyond reasonable numbers to drivers to deliver and this should now be reported and discussed by all. Adding lots of stress and unreasobale amount of pressure on drivers and their safety. Would be nice to discuss these too. Thanks
I completely agree with this. I can barely get blocks at the moment because drivers keep accepting base rates.
That twinned with what you already mentioned there about Amazon pushing their luck with blocks.
The other week i had 30 parcels for a 3 hour block, 27 of them were in the same area, the last 3 were 12 miles away on 3 different farms. Absolute p*sstake
@tommywills thanks for the reply,
people should start making some noise about this
Drivers are not a robbot !
People are sent to gated houses waiting 10min for access
Tower blocks with no lifts. All of that are OK if they accommodate your time. They have to stop pushing so many parcels to people without thinking of location and access. If drivers keep doing this amazon will push more and more because they can get away with it. No fair at all. People work for their block but to the point of putting them under stress and compromising their safety. Everyone should start speaking up. Pass the words please. Thanks
You just delivered to my dads house at the beginning of this video 😂😂
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Nice job mate.
I want to ask is there any chance to work for the weekend and is it allowed only one block per day or more blocks
Can do 24 hours a week maximum, theres always weekend blocks and you can do more than 1 a day as long as the start and finish times don’t overlap
I signed up for flex 8 months ago haven't received any work yet & I'm in quite a busy area.
Gotta keep refreshing and be quick to get slots
Have you got a spreadsheet to work out tax and fuel etc I remember a TH-camr talking about it but can’t find it now 😂 great vids btw very helpful thanks
If you go on one of my previous amazon Flex videos (one i did in October), i have attached a spreadsheet that I use. To get your copy, open the link, then click file>make a copy. Please don’t request access ✌🏼
What about wear and tear on the vehicle?
I am waiting for months my app shows sorry there aren't any delivery openings in your area at the moment , what should i do ?? this like couple months now
30mpg any good for it?
What SDPC and business insurance do you use? As I found out the difficult way the major players, LV, Hastings, Direct Line, Admiral don't allow for top-up insurance (aka: hire & reward or addon) , don't allow couriers on their own business packages either or even allow you to have other policies with other insurers entirely but Amazon and other gig apps don't tell you about this stuff (or don't make it obvious much like the mainstream insurers).
Admiral are the only company to accept H&W (top up) insurance. They also sell their own version. Its very annoying to be honest that they’re the only ones in the UK for flex drivers
@@tommywills Thank you, it's helpful for others to know and see this. I asked my insurance if they did business insurance for couriers to see if I could get it cheaper than what I had and they immediately voided my insurance and gave me 7 days to either stop doing courier work (to cancel the cancellation) or cancel with them and go with someone else (I had top up insurance with Inshur). I was asking a genuine question, but it's saved me a nightmare if I ever had a crash. It was Hastings and it was only specified on 1 line, no more than 20 words in a 93 page policy document.
@@mathew5162 i’ve been with Hastings before when i had a crash a few years ago. Difficult company to deal with and they accepted liability before evidence was even collected 😂 decided to lose a few years no claims just to get the ordeal out the way
I've got my insurance with Privilege, they allow top up insurance.
Cool sweet story - NOW - tell people about business car insurance and CAR REPAIRS - because you know - those tyres are wearing - suspension damage (my guess you saw those pot holes) - now think about increased chance of car accident and..... that is just TIP OF AN ICEBERG
Think you’ve done it for me 😂
So negative. You'll never do anything. There's a cost to anything.
@@williebobs3830 I would say realistic - thumbnail says £20/h then he said after taxes and NI is like £15 - but he forgot about ultra expensive car repairs after he will do like 10.000-20.000 ANNUALLY it will be down to like £5/h depends on car and how driven if accidents after hours and HOURS in car as a job
@@williebobs3830 oh and I was mobile Carer - I know what I say when it comes to drive own car as a job
@@williebobs3830true, but that doesn’t mean you can just ignore it either
Keep up with it gonna pay off one day fam
Appreciate it man 🤝🏼
Great vid! What about car maintenance and depreciation?
I don’t think it’s as big an issue as people will make out. Your car naturally depreciates anyway.
I’ve done about 2.5k extra miles purely doing amazon flex since October 2023, luckily not had any issues.
Some people however do end up ragging their car around to get parcels delivered as quickly as possible. Just all depends how you drive.
I usually put another £5 aside from each shift to cover a maintenance cost (if it ever arises in the future). Probs the sensible way to do it.
@@tommywills since October 2024?
@@TOGUN_TK meant 2023 😅
Question... What happens if you can't deliver a parcel for some reason? Can you avoid that parcel and go on the next one on the app? How?
What I do is contact customer. If no answer, i try a neighbour. If no luck, then you can press undeliverable and you have to return it back to the depot after block or by 10am the next day. Make a note of the parcel number etc as sometimes the customer complains saying they didn’t receive it which then affects your driver score. Amazon will then email you to let you know that ‘1 of 35 parcels were not delivered’ for example. That’s where you then reply to the email with the parcel number and details and outline that you contacted the customer and tried neighbours. 9 times out of 10 they will clear it from your driver score.
That’s my experience anyway
I'm pretty sure this is TheLazyPeon living a double life 😂
Gosh the wages are terrible over there….
I understand you get a lot to deliver.
But I hate it when parcels are left outside when the shed it 15 more steps away. Usually pissing it down aswell
Nowhere else to leave it and customer specified behind wheelie bin if not in. Always follow the delivery instructions otherwise I get penalised
@@tommywills oh sorry this wasn't directly directed at you. If that's the delivery directions then yeah. I have mine set to shed and it's 90% left by the front door 😫
@@nodwaa9227 yea definitely shouldn’t be doing that 😂
@@nodwaa9227 You have a shed in the front garden?
@@sie4431 absolutely not 😂Hence my frustration
I started last week, ive only been doing Amazon Fresh, works out better. Less drop offs.
Only done a few, found its less drop offs but more driving (in my area anyway)
@tommywills the one I go from in London is decent, hardly any miles driven. About 10 miles total.
I had one with 1 drop off today and it was literally next to my house.
Only issue with fresh is, people load of cases of water. Can be an issue with dropping off to blocks of flats.
I gues it helps me keep fit so I dont mind.
Don't forget to include your vehicles deprecation in your final costs.
Hard to calculate that unfortunately. Cars naturally depreciate anyway regardless of doing Amazon flex. All down to the type of car aswell, so wouldn’t be helpful or relevant to most people. Best to keep it separate
@@tommywillsdepreciation you’re correct os hard to calculate but you can try and use a cabby / taxi driver method whereby you have to assign a certain amount of your daily expenses to vehicle maintenance. Something like 10%-15% should be good so your £44 would have been £38-£40 or something. You should definitely take your vehicle running costs into account regardless of if you have a main job or don’t use this money for your car service or mot etc. the reason is because this is where the majority of your wear and tear and mileage will come from.
Cool vids and just found you ❤
@@smartnothard2400 I may start doing this.
thank you man ❤️
Im in
How are they not out of business yet?
How long did you have to wait to become an Amazon Flex driver?, I only ask as I've been waiting 7 months now since I registered for the Edinburgh area
I emailed them and they told me to reapply. I was in within a few weeks
All the ware tear and running cost 20 quid a hour don’t cut it I’m afraid…and the rate is for the late shift..time half minimum 😮😊
Depends on the person I guess 👍🏼
you have a well paid job i take it.
@@Supraboyes not really let’s be honest if you all stood together I’m sure you could get more for your time ect ect unfortunately the lack of proper representation and collective bargaining means you get the scraps that Amazon want to give you..after 35 hours should be time half , after 6pm double time minimum plus a mileage fee paid to you for using your vehicle..
Hopefully things improve
How long did it take you to be accepted onto Amazon flex. I have applied but have been put on the waiting list
I had to apply twice as they messed up my first application, but the second time i got accepted straight away. Was around october time though so prime day and xmas was round the corner
For me it was fairly quick but it depends on where you live. I also applied for Deliveroo and that was ages
i work 4 on 4 off and overtime at work isn't always available i was about doing flex i have a depot 10-15 minutes from me are you guaranteed your local depot ??
Its not that difficult ,,theres an old granny delivers around my area ,,must be 75 yrs she loves it 😅
Class from her
How does your insurance work bud? I'm thinking of giving it a go myself but getting quotes like £2200 a year to insure an old Fiesta. Been driving 18 years but only have 1 years no claims as my partner has a Motability car and I'm a named driver so don't earn no claims bonus. Any help would be appreciated
A Amazon flex driver here mate. Insurance is done for the hours you work with a company called inshur. They work with Amazon and you pay per hour the time it takes you to complete your block.
To ballpark it, assuming you have a motobility car that's only a year or two old at the most your looking at about £1.20 give or take. Per hour. Just be careful if you do it in a motor bility car mate if they catch on it will be removed from you
Commercial insurance rates are unjust right now
I agree. It’s almost become not worth the hassle
Horrible them amazons mate. Really are not worth it
can you do this as a full time job on that rate
You can only do max 24 hours a week, so it’s definitely just a side gig
That's pretty good to be fair, even if you did it 3 times a week that's an extra 150 in the back pocket and it gets you out and about.
Exactly mate. It’s easy work aswell
@@tommywills Is it easy to sign up to it mate?
@@scottzu-5186 yea kind of. Waiting list takes a while though
Does Amazon pay your fuel?
No you pay for your own fuel
That is awful pay I make 15 hour in a factory
So less than what I made after tax?
Better than nothing
Amazon are taking you for a ride. If you keep doing this day after day your car will soon be scrap and need replacing. Also you never mentioned business insurance for the car, ongoing maintenance such as brakes new tyres, new clutch, more frequent cam belt replacement and periodical servicing. You are not making anything like the money you think you are.
It’s honestly not that bad. And like any job, theres give and take. I don’t have an expensive flashy car, so I’m happy to use it to earn some extra money each month. If it’s not for you, it’s not for you 🤷🏻♂️
I do this in London, I get like 4 stops max during a 2 hour block and usually drive no more than 10 miles. 42 quid for every 2 hours, hardly any fuel consumed. Tax can be recouped via expenses. Its honestly not that bad. Rather spend a few hours out of the house than spend another minute around the wife during the weekends.
Scan the QR code inside of the bag ;-)
Thats what i tried to do in the video, both were knackered 😒
£12 tax that hurts a bit
Probably be less than that at the end of the year. You can claim 45p per mile for the first 10k miles you do
Not worth it at all who’s paying for wear and teh can get a warehouse job that’s pays similar
Prefer this over warehouse job personally
Really enjoyed this content mate! Do you have instagram? Would love to have a chat with you!
Thanks Olly
Hi mate, yes i do @tommywills4