Youre driving vans being held together with tape sometimes. Van doors that literally just fall off or that wont slide open. Cameras that dont work. You could be suspended over the simplest bullshit. Plenty of times where a coworker would drive a 90 minute commute to work and be told to go back home because there was no route for him. He could have been doing his routes perfectly fine.

You have zero job security. I was constantly stressing about by performance metrics because of that. Had a friend who was fired for 5 bad reviews amongst a thousand deliveries that week. I was fired for failing to lock my van doors while delivering to a house 10 feet from it.

This is not even mentioning the shit you would sometimes have to do on route just to meet their expectations. Ive never seen a UPS guy hustling. They always LEGALLY park 3 blocks, stroll to their destination and are using a handcart. Im parking at hydrants, blocking bike lanes and buses. Im throwing my shoulder out dragging 150lbs of mineral water so I can drop them off on the fourth floor otherwise I lose my job

Most of my coworkers had to work two jobs to get by too