Pros
If you have a car you can use, you can be a delivery driver. Based out St Laurent/Belfast Rd area in Ottawa, you are hired to deliver Amazon packages to Ottawa-Gatineau region. Your supervisor usually wants you to deliver around 50 packages minimum, sometimes up to 100 if you want, sometimes less, too, depending on how much time you have. Flexible with hours and days, so you only have to commit to working one day at a time. A shift can start between 7:30-12noon, depending on when the packages are ready to be picked up. Job is pretty simple: scan in products at warehouse, follow delivery route based on app and drop boxes/parcels off at residential and commercial properties around city.
Cons
Your compensation can be minimal depending on the route you receive for the day. The company, which uses JoeyCo app, delivers to Rockland, Orleans, Gatineau, Hull, Alymer, Stittsville, West End, Downtown/Market/, Glebe, Ottawa South, etc. You need to factor in the additional cost of insurance as commercial vehicle (unless you're illegally delivering and withholding that information from insurance companies which I am sure most of the drivers are doing), gasoline, wear and tear on vehicle (kms), the time it takes to collect your items from the warehouse and then the actual route itself. You are paid $1.50 per package you deliver, which sounds pretty good, but unless you are really efficient or the route has homes really close to one another, you'll likely barely make minimum wage. Expect to clock upwards of 50-100km per shift if you have 50 or more packages to deliver. It's a chaotic scene at the warehouse, where it's a bit of a war zone and everyone is pretty much there for themselves, so don't really expect any help or any good team work, because everyone is there for the money and that's it. There are multiple courier businesses working out of the same warehouse, so some of the managers are quite brash so don't be surprised if you get told off. You need to be aggressive to get the traffic control guy to allow you to bring your car in. Also, don't park on the road outside the warehouse. I've heard that parking enforcement comes by regularly to give tickets.