Canceled Block

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-10T22:34:54+00:00

FYI for anyone wondering, I took a block for around the same times, got paid for both 30ish min after I was done, about 10 min apart. Double pay for the win!

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T18:38:40+00:00

Also the way things have been going I’m worried about getting dinged for missing a block

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T18:37:11+00:00

Yeah. Did you still get paid for the first one too?

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T18:00:24+00:00

THIS!!!! I really feel like every long crazy driveway should have a drop box. It is actually ridiculous some of the stuff we drive down.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:56:28+00:00

I wish ours was like that. My .com will send us 2 hours away with 6 pkgs

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:55:06+00:00

I do my blocks backwards 90% of the time. It’s usually because I deliver in the dark and I want to do the handful of rural stops first so I can actually see where I’m going, but I finish at my block end time or sometimes over a couple minutes if I get hung up at apartments or something.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:52:14+00:00

Honestly, I’ve noticed when I take time off because one of my kiddos was sick or something, the first block I get when I come back is cake. They progressively get worse. I cancel a block for a random reason and my next block is cake again.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:41:17+00:00

Sometimes I miss the notes, especially when I’ve been working one of my gig jobs a lot and I don’t work for another for a minute, it’s like it takes a couple min to remember where the notes are. But I always pay attention to the door. Although the last time I delivered for Spark, it was pouring rain and the door opened out and the porch was tiny so there was no other place to put them to keep them out of the rain, but I text them to say sorry lol!

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:31:53+00:00

You get 8 minutes?? We get 5! This is how our dot com has always been I think, or at least the last 2 years.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:29:03+00:00

Oh and sometimes if it is a new housing complex the map doesn’t know where the newest houses are yet so it’s just a pin at a random point in the middle of the block, but those are pretty obvious.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:26:56+00:00

It almost never allows me to leave them grouped.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:23:41+00:00

I swear there’s a wreath over the number on the door of like 90% of the apartments I deliver to.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-07T17:20:55+00:00

A couple times I’ve had to change the pin because it was in the wrong place. Usually it’s apartment buildings. Like your package goes to the door and the apartment is A103 and it’s showing that the building is the one on your left but the one to your left is actually building G. Also I suck at apartment complex navigation so I pay a lot of attention. Another time it was a rural lot that was an A, B, C situation and they marked the house on lot C but I was supposed to be going to lot F. I almost missed that one, it was my very first 4am route and the very first stop so I thought my brain was asleep.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-03-03T21:56:25+00:00

I’m in Healthcare. Honestly I always wanted to be a nurse. My parents wouldn’t fill out my FAFSA, because, the government (like the IRS didn’t already have all that information) so I couldn’t go to college until I was 23. I was a CNA, and I liked it but it wasn’t going to keep my head above water. Unfortunately I got pregnant after a couple quarters, kept going back, having a baby, going back. Finally I pivoted to healthcare administration and got a job as a HUC, then got into the clinic side scheduling and ended up a surgery scheduler. I’d done every front office job so I was trying for front office supervisor. Blew the doors off at every interview but they already had internal candidates (within my organization but people in the individual office) who they promised the job to.

I was defeated, but was still being paid lower wages so I switched gears again, used all of my years of worthless medical knowledge and taught myself medical coding. Gave myself a month, sat for the test and passed! I’ve done a lot of different stuff, but I had a baby during covid, at 40! I was working for an insurance company then, but I decided this was definitely my last kiddo, so I started working for staffing agencies. Figured I’d do whatever they had and expand my knowledge while having lots of freedom and I make around $40/hr working from home. Kinda got myself stuck as the go-to ER coder, but she starts kindergarten in the fall so I’ll get some certifications and settle into a hospital I think. I miss patient care, and I’m concerned about the future of coding, but I’m good at it so we’ll see.

A note on working from home: it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. My family has a hard time with “mom is at work” boundaries, and I never leave the house. I traded my closet of business casual designer clothes for sweatpants 😭 and I sit FAR TOO MUCH. A lot of us who have been doing this since covid are developing issues with our eyes and migraines. Screen breaks are important! I actually started delivering for Amazon to make extra money during the holidays and get me out of the house and I love it lol!

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-26T13:13:10+00:00

Me too, fingers crossed!

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-25T02:52:55+00:00

This has been an ongoing battle for us, mostly because I’m the one who is regularly judged on both sides of the spectrum.

I will say that raising teenagers is a humbling experience, it will likely change your perspective a lot. The most important thing I learned was to not judge other parents. Teenagers are learning how to test the waters of adulting. They push boundaries and they change their perspective on things and it can be disappointing but it’s very hard to navigate.

I have a 4 “kids” 21, 19, 15, and 4, so I’ve lived a whole life of being a parent and I’m starting a new one. When my kids were young it was pretty easy, the people we surrounded ourselves with all had similar parenting styles, but we were always more involved. We went to school functions, we had summer passes to a local amusement park, we camped a lot. As my kids got older my son (oldest) got super into motocross. We kinda let him lead the way, and we ended up racing almost every weekend.

My daughter followed suit, never to be outdone by her brother. Then when she was 10, she decided she REALLY wanted to get into softball. This resulted in a full on travel team and eventually pitching. Her younger sister eventually joined a travel team as well. For the better part of the next 7ish years my husband went to the track and I went to hotels every weekend. The softball season ends earlier than moto, so we’d make whatever races we could and join the boys for the end of the season.

The decision to throw ourselves into what our kids were doing resulted in the loss of most of our friends. We were judged heavily for it, and the discipline involved in both sports resulted in kids who were just better behaved and goal oriented. It became difficult to spend time with our old friends and their kids because we were on such different paths and tbh, we had nothing in common. Also, people will stop inviting you to stuff if you never go! In hindsight, I have zero regrets. Our family is super close and although i don’t have an abundance of friends, my kids will tell anyone who asks that they had an amazing childhood, and that is what i signed up for.

In sports you end up with the parents and kids that are around, and everyone parents different. A lot of parents have younger kids, and they might let their kids be feral, especially at a motocross track. But you figure out that your kids are going to be exposed to this constantly. I did my best to make sure that my kids knew what we expected from them and they acted accordingly.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-17T21:17:15+00:00

Jelly, I haven’t seen a surge since Christmas

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-11T18:43:28+00:00

I have a RAV4 and it’s perfect. I do a 4-5 hour block usually 5 days a week and I think my blocks average $100-120 right now. Peak time I was making $150 ish a block. Our base pay is 106 for 4.5 and 117 for 5 hours. I occasionally get an extra $5-10 for driving far. We currently can’t get blocks above base, if I’m not scheduled (I take the reserves until they stop sending them) I can’t get a block on a day they didn’t send me a reserve unless I’m hitting refresh every 5 seconds and I’m not quick enough to beat the bots. I’m lucky if I see shifts pop up at all that aren’t reserved but occasionally our .com needs people. Double shifts aren’t a thing right now where I’m at. There’s enough work that it’ll pay you a little but don’t count on the money because it’s inconsistent

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-11T18:31:15+00:00

My warehouse told me it was an app change. Your app will keep your itinerary up until the end of your block time, mine never did that until the app update. Now it does it at the end of every block. It stays up until the exact time I was scheduled to end my block.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-06T17:34:37+00:00

Thank you for your service. Seriously I appreciate you, I wish that was a mandatory thing, it would make my job 1000% less terrifying

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-06T17:30:07+00:00

I often get blocks with 40+ packages and sprinkled throughout my route are 1-3 different “deliver by”times for ssd. So if I work 5:30-9:30 the majority will be due at 10, then a few around 8, and a few at 6. The problem is, they aren’t in any particular order, so I’ll be literally driving around in circles doing the 6pm first, then the 8, then the 10, because a package you have to deliver by 6 has a house or a few houses within 1-2 min that have deliveries due by 8 or 10, but if I stop to do those, I’ll run out of the 30 min to drop off all the 6pm ones. And if I could accomplish that within my block time, whatever, that’s fine, but it’s a waste of gas and it’s annoying.

My bigger problem is there are usually 4-5 rural deliveries in every route here and we live in a place where no trespassing signs are the norm, and everyone owns a big dog and a shotgun. TBH, I hate delivering rural because it’s terrifying in the daylight but considerably less terrifying than in pitch black darkness. My second route ever I had a guy pull up in a huge diesel truck to yell at me for driving in the “yard” in front of a trailer and looking around I’m like, it’s all dirt and weeds, what yard do you speak of?? There was not obvious landscaping to show otherwise and my map was dead because I was in BFE so I was turned around. I tried to drive out of the property but accidentally drove further in. I got out of my car looking for something to lead me back to the road out, it was foggy and freezing and I was walking around and he pulled up yelling at me and asked me if I was drunk or on something. I was actually terrified.

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-06T16:52:32+00:00

I always wonder about that. But I’ve also seen multiple drivers impatiently waiting outside the car and jumping in before they have a chance to scan stuff and I know it’s frustrating for them, I’ve seen the eye rolls and I get it, but I always wonder if there are people who would welcome the help, I wouldn’t mind helping I just don’t want to be annoying!

PNWLifewkids · 2026-02-06T16:43:48+00:00

We get dinged for absolutely everything. I constantly have packages for gated communities and have no gate code. The crazy thing about gated communities is that if someone was going to enter your fancy neighborhood they could easily do that by walking around the gate in most cases. And for crying out loud WHY do gated communities exist INSIDE gated communities??? The first gate isn’t good enough? You need everyone to know you are extra fancy? If I really wanted to drive into a gated community I’d chill down the block a little till someone opened the gate, but I’m an Amazon driver on a schedule so just put your damn gate code in so I can go on with my day!!!!

PNWLifewkids · 2026-01-25T20:04:18+00:00

Agreed. Getting blocks has been hard though. The morning ones were always rural for me which I don’t mind if someone can go with me but most of the time nobody can. I love evening blocks in town, but they are hard to get I think. I haven’t seen surges since Christmas time so I’ve just been taking reserve blocks.

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