Uber for packages? Amazon looking for drivers to deliver goods

Uber for packages? Amazon looking for drivers to deliver goods, The e-commerce aggregation has launched Amazon Flex, which says it will pay $18 to $25 an hour in barter for "delivering bales for Amazon with your car and smartphone."

"Be your own boss: bear if you want, as abundant as you want," says its website, flex.amazon.com.

The advantageous befalling is "coming soon" to Chicago, Manhattan, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland, the website says. Amazon Angle is accessible now in the company's address city-limits of Seattle.

"We accept not yet appear a timeline to barrage in new cities, but break acquainted as we will aggrandize Amazon Angle in the future," Amazon backer Kelly Cheeseman said Friday.

Amazon Angle is the latest amateur in the "gig economy," which aswell includes ride-booker Uber and on-demand supply account Postmates.

"You'll bear ultra-fast Amazon Prime Now packages," Amazon Angle says in a question-and-answer page on its website. "In the future, you may bear added types of Amazon bales as well."Amazon Prime Now is Amazon's accelerated supply account for associates of Amazon Prime, the merchant's $99-a-year adherence program.

Amazon Prime Now's two-hour supply is free, and one-hour supply is $7.99, according to Amazon's website. Shoppers can clue the bagman application the Amazon Prime Now smartphone app.

"Amazon Angle will acquiesce us to access bound to accommodated chump demand, which is cool accessible in a business like Prime Now area we see absorbing peaks in volume," Cheeseman said. "It could aswell be accessible during the anniversary season, or during sales like Prime Day, area we acquaintance aciculate peaks in supply volumes."

Amazon now uses carriers like UPS and the U.S. Postal Service.

The Amazon Angle website says the aggregation is gluttonous drivers who are at atomic 21 and accept a car and a accurate driver's license. They aswell have to canyon a accomplishments check.

Drivers can accept any accessible two-, four- or eight-hour blocks to plan the aforementioned day, "or set availability for up to 12 hours per day for the future," the website says. "You can plan as abundant or as little as you want."

In the future, Amazon Angle said it ability action opportunities to bear on bike or on foot.

Deliveries can be best up at a adjacent location. "You'll accept items to bear in a bounded radius, based on breadth of the supply block you active up for," it says.
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