Amazon's "Prime Air" Completes Its First Drone Delivery!

[BSWALKS]

Nothing about it was remotely interesting.

No, but the peak driver that ripped his pants while doing the stretches was pretty funny.

 

[Babagounj]

Amazon air cargo pilots approach its CUSTOMERS warning they won't get Christmas orders in time | Daily Mail Online

'It isn't fair to you': Amazon air cargo pilots approach its customers warning they won't get Christmas orders in time because they are so understaffed

 

[Babagounj]

Amazon drivers say they are pushed to the limit as holiday deliveries reach a frenzy

Echeverria, 38, drives for LMS Transportation, a local courier in Inglewood that delivers packages for Amazon. He starts each day with about 260 boxes, which he has to drop off at maybe 200 addresses across up to 80 miles in Southern California.

Factoring in the time needed to load and gas up his white van, which sometimes sports a magnetized Amazon logo on the back door, Echeverria has to hit one home every two minutes, on average. Failing to deliver even one package is not an option, he says.

“If you bring anything back, they basically want to cut your throat off,” says Echeverria, a single father of three who makes $15 an hour.

In 2015, drivers for Pasadena-based courier Scoobeez who delivered packages for Amazon sued both companies for denying them overtime and effectively paying them less than the minimum wage after drivers subtracted gas, tolls and maintenance from their paychecks.

 

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Amazon drivers say they are pushed to the limit as holiday deliveries reach a frenzy

Echeverria, 38, drives for LMS Transportation, a local courier in Inglewood that delivers packages for Amazon. He starts each day with about 260 boxes, which he has to drop off at maybe 200 addresses across up to 80 miles in Southern California.

Factoring in the time needed to load and gas up his white van, which sometimes sports a magnetized Amazon logo on the back door, Echeverria has to hit one home every two minutes, on average. Failing to deliver even one package is not an option, he says.

“If you bring anything back, they basically want to cut your throat off,” says Echeverria, a single father of three who makes $15 an hour.

In 2015, drivers for Pasadena-based courier Scoobeez who delivered packages for Amazon sued both companies for denying them overtime and effectively paying them less than the minimum wage after drivers subtracted gas, tolls and maintenance from their paychecks.

Now I know why my brother quit working there after 16 years.

 

[CharleyHustle]

Amazon air cargo pilots approach its CUSTOMERS warning they won't get Christmas orders in time | Daily Mail Online

'It isn't fair to you': Amazon air cargo pilots approach its customers warning they won't get Christmas orders in time because they are so understaffed

"Experts at the time worried the introduction of air deliveries would cripple the two land courier service, both of which benefit hugely from Amazon's unrelenting business."

Experts? Not see'in it.

 

[speshialk]

I love when people say things like "Never going to happen."

It absolutely will happen, it just a matter of time. It's like saying, "We'll always deliver with pen and paper. They'll never be able to build a computer that you can take on the road to keep track of packages"

 

[Jackburton]

I love when people say things like "Never going to happen."

It absolutely will happen, it just a matter of time. It's like saying, "We'll always deliver with pen and paper. They'll never be able to build a computer that you can take on the road to keep track of packages"

Like flying cars in the Jetson's?