TIL that if you search "thank my driver" on the Amazon app, you can give your most recent Amazon driver a $5 tip at no cost to you. This is a limited time promotion.

Openly promoting the fact that they underpay their drivers, for a limited time.

This is normalizing tipping drivers and pretty soon it will be expected. Resist this enshittification.

just advertisment for Amazon - now people will talk about them and share this ad on social media :/

Is there an option for "Request Amazon to pay drivers decently and improve working conditions?"

Nope, just a "illegally suppress unions" button.

“At no cost to you… for now”

For some time now I’ve been very successful at not buying anything from Amazon.

Can any driver confirm they get the extra pay?

Or is this just propaganda to make the buyer feel good?

Don't think it worked for me 😞

Shame I refuse to use Amazon. I’ll pay more to get it somewhere else.

Aww, that's sweet, Bezos is paying these personally, right?

Right??

Cool but in all seriousness try not using amazon and using ethical alternatives if you can afford it.

Worked for me

I thought this was a shitpost but I tried it and it worked. What a weird way to hide a tip.

Amazon drivers (the ones in budget or Amazon cans, not flex in personal cars) do okish. I just quit working for a third party company Amazon uses to shield them from liability and unions because it's miserable work but the pay was $22.50 which isn't too bad. The workload is crazy, it's all rush rush rush, and they don't care about you at all though so fuck them and Amazon. The drivers would appreciate the tip, they're generally hardworking and decent people.

IIRC when Amazon Fresh was a thing, they were encouraging tips, but they were caught using the tips to cover some of the hourly wages.

nah fuck amazon.

If you have an Echo device, you can also ask Alexa to "thank my driver" and it will apply it to the most recent order on your account. Just did it for an order that came in on Monday and Alexa gave me the $5 spiel.

Hmmm US only? Doesn't work here.

Just tried it and it worked. 9:30 PST.

Done. Two seconds. 2/3 hrs pay to them. Do it you assholes.

That's nice and all, and deserved, but that would mean me using the amazon app which has far too many negatives for me to consider

Worked for me

So you have ordered a book named "Never pay the first bill"??

Don't seem to have that option in the app in Canada

Haven't had a delivery in 14-days, didn't work. Bummer. I like my guy.

Works in Japan, too. Gives ¥500 extra.

Didn't work for me either :\

Well hell, wish I'd known this when they dropped off a bunch of flat pack desks. I'm not tipping the guy that just dropped off a kitchen spoon.

Any Amazon drivers here that can give some insight into this?

not here in austria

Not working for me. It brought up a special screen but it just says that my thanks will be passed on to the driver.

The last thing I had delivered was an expensive drone, and it was delivered a block from my house. I had to use google street view to match the house with the delivery photo from Amazon. No tip for this driver!

• JEFF BEZOS IS SHORT
• like Putin level short
• THATS WHY HES LIKE THAT

Why doesn't Amazon just pay them $5 more per trip? Trying to crowdfund their worker's salaries is a low move for a trillion dollar company. Disgusting really.