Amazon drivers forced to deliver 200 parcels a day while earning less than minimum wage
Found on Sunday Mirror on Sunday, 10 December 2017
Drivers are being asked to deliver up to 200 parcels a day for Amazon while earning less than the minimum wage, a Sunday Mirror investigation reveals today.
Yet they have so little time for food or toilet stops they snatch hurried meals on the run and urinate into plastic bottles they keep in their vans.
The delivery giant, which makes £7.3billion a year, does not employ them directly but uses an army of agencies instead. These agencies recruit drivers who work via an Amazon app and follow a delivery route set by the company.
The end of the story is that people won't care. They will still complain that their parcel arrived 5 minutes after it should, and that everything takes too long anyway. The majority of shoppers at Amazon are part of the problem too.