The Amazon Diaries

What It’s Like Working as an Amazon Flex Delivery Driver

Drivers can make $20 an hour delivering packages for Amazon Flex, but shifts are drying up

Brendan O'Connor

Published in

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9 min readMar 4, 2019

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Illustration: Glenn Harvey

Valued at nearly $1 trillion, Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world. The Seattle-based retail giant employs over 600,000 people and operates…

Brendan O'Connor

Written by Brendan O'Connor

Writer for

OneZero

freelance writer and journalist | brendan.french.oconnor@gmail.com

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