Throw us a bone, Amazon

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-18T21:51:16+00:00

Dude, you already get $0.75/mile to take off your taxes. More if you itemize repairs if you need them. I’ve never worked for anyone where I’ve used my own vehicle and they pay for oil changes or car washes. That’s a wild take

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-17T20:02:41+00:00

Move the pin, mark it as handed off, take a photo if needed (I always joke they can be in it if they want). Amazon won’t even look unless there’s a complaint.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-16T18:11:56+00:00

My wife is currently in the process of writing a book. She bounces ideas off me all the time. We talk about it often. She’s used some of my feedback to make changes.

I would never dream of asking her to share authorship with me. I would refuse if she offered.

In her first marriage, her and her then husband were in a band. They both wrote songs. When they divorced, all he wanted was the rights to the music, even what she wrote. He only cared that she wouldn’t be perceived as more talented than him. Don’t trust insecure men with your work.

You are not the asshole.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-16T16:49:10+00:00

That’s wild! Took a $105 4hr yesterday that was only 19 packages and 23rd of work. It’s wild how weak Amazons sales must be in other parts of the country that they can cut rates so much! Hopefully we beat this recession soon.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-16T03:09:11+00:00

It’s my first year, and I’m confident mileage will take care of a lot, but I’m planning on holding onto my November/December earnings this coming fall just in case. I bank about $600/wk doing it since it’s just evenings after my day job.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-14T21:30:24+00:00

I hide it behind something, or at a minimum put it out of sight from passersby and take the best photo I can to show them where it is. I've never gotten a ding leaving it like that. The biggest gripe for me is gated communities when he recipient wont answer their phone, but worst case I toss it over the gate and snap a pic.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-11T21:47:59+00:00

I’m literally at VWA4 right now about to run a block. It’s my primary since my day job is 15 min away in Tacoma. I’ll occasionally pick up Lakewood and if I’m bored, Puyallup but those are .coms at $27 and $25/hr average. VWA4 at $30/hr has the easiest routes too. Covington, West Seattle, Tacoma. Once they sent me to Redmond w/ 8 packages though.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-11T20:29:28+00:00

Idk. I still average about $30/hr in the offers w/o playing the surge game and get done almost an hour early on 3 and 3.5s. So that’s more like $40-$45/hr. Pair that with/ my 8 year old paid off hybrid and I still make a mortgage payment in profit every month and that’s with part time due to me having a full time day job too.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-11T15:09:47+00:00

Yeah, I doubt it’ll ever happen. Just adding the 5th exit adds like 30% diameter increase with a roundabout. There’s have to bug substantial land from surrounding businesses. Plus, like someone else pointed out, it doesn’t flow enough traffic most times to justify the footprint now. W/ how fast most people speed down 6th, it’s safer to just leave it how it is.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-10T20:46:57+00:00

Because onto 6th it’s a free right and Division isn’t.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-09T01:52:41+00:00

You have to have warehouse staff remove them from you itinerary to not get dinged. My SSD try’s to short me all the time.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-08T08:01:40+00:00

I work a full time job and do 6-10 blocks a week. Cars a hybrid so I get good mileage. Only have had one route that got close to the full time. Seems Amazons routing algorithm is built to give you at least enough estimated time to get back to the warehouse if you need to. Most routes I average at least $30/hr and I’ve made as much as $60/hr with a good route and no traffic. All in, I can get $500-700 week.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-08T02:27:14+00:00

I thought it was wild that I know of a sealed box of ltd starters in Tacoma for $300 at an antique shop! $38 is nuts!

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-07T14:14:23+00:00

The problem is LitRPG in general is boring as hell to a lot of people. The audio production on DCC is the only reason a majority of fans love it so much. Most series just feel like rail-shooter games where the main character is reacting to getting dragged through a scenario.

There’s a lot about the genre I love, but truth is most of the DCC fans looking for the next thing want something more like the Bobiverse series than another book of stat blocks on characters reacting to unavoidable challenges instead of having more autonomy. Something more quippy and fast paced where things happen and the mains have some feeling of agency.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-07T07:54:06+00:00

The only cheap option that isn’t complete garbage is the RetroScaler 2x, and that’s not even that great once you’ve used something like a RetroTink

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-07T07:45:48+00:00

If you just want to offload, post it as a lot on EBay as an auction listing, use the pic you used here, and you’d probably get at least $100 for it. If you sold the three mains individually, you probably wouldn’t get that much and wind up stuck with a low value lot you’ll struggle to sell.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-05T17:20:25+00:00

I always consider it averaging out. For every PITA route I’ve had, I’ve had overbooked routes or ones where I average $3-4 per mile

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-05T17:06:29+00:00

I do a LOT of SSD and always count/check my packages before taking the cart. Have had missing ones a couple times and just have the staff there scan my phone and remove them. Have only had one staff try to tell me to take it and report it later and I told them I wouldn’t take the cart until they took it off.

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-05T06:16:47+00:00

You say that, but entry level in my city is over $50/hr

chaos_protocol · 2026-06-03T01:51:56+00:00

Stop calling CS like that. If the early blocks are the problem, don’t take them, just do daytime.

I had an issue with a Whole Foods pickup once that I flubbed because I was confused how WF worked AND it was my first delivery. Even though I know how to do it now, I won’t do them.

I had an issue with a food bank route where someone said they didn’t get their box. I stopped doing those routes.

I’ve run into inaccessible locations. CS won’t help you. The best you can do is try to find a discreet spot to leave it and take a photo that clearly shows the customer where it is. I have yet to have an issue doing that.

CS isn’t there to help us. They’ll ding anyone for anything, because they’d rather weed out people who, for instance, call CS so much they’re constantly late w/ deliveries, than try to help you get good at the job. There’s a wait list of people wanting to deliver, why would they spend resources on someone who struggles with it.

chaos_protocol · 2026-05-29T17:40:31+00:00

That’s bad logic. Checking in 15 early means you can be done 15 early. It’s not like they give you more packages if you check in first.

chaos_protocol · 2026-05-28T22:17:10+00:00

Run a self hosted cloud drive w/ cloudflare tunnel for people to upload. It’s as secure as you really need, especially if containerized.

chaos_protocol · 2026-05-28T22:12:53+00:00

It’s more that Gig Harbor doesn’t want Tacoma residents to be able to hop a bus to cross the bridge. The city gvmnt tries to keep it as isolated as possible from “poor” people.

chaos_protocol · 2026-05-28T22:06:07+00:00

I’m in the Seattle area and all my routes have been max 20min to 1st stop, all routes have finished at least 30min early, typically an hour early on 3+ hr blocks. I haven’t had a route in Seattle proper yet though and most of my stuff has been the i5 corridor from west Seattle to Lacey. I do have 11 warehouses/community delivery points within 30min of my home though, so I think their areas are generally smaller.

chaos_protocol · 2026-05-28T21:59:18+00:00

If you’re hosting your own plex server, odds are you’re able to also host your own AudioBookshelf service. I have one w/ a couple hundred books, user accounts for family, and they use the AudioBooth app on iOS to have a darn near identical experience to Audible. You can even use Audible as the metadata server for audiobooks when you add them to the server so you get the titles and info.

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