The “flex” program takes a page from the gig-worker playbook, including the option to use your own vehicle for deliveries. But is it worth it.

You can work for Amazon without actually working for Amazon through the company’s Flex delivery program.

Amazon’s website depicts those “thoroughly vetted drivers” wearing Amazon uniforms and ballcaps — not Flex drivers but people the company employs through professional shipping contractors.

Amazon looked at buying Postmates earlier this year, but in the end it built a service that will go head to head in competing with it. The e-commerce giant today took the wraps off Flex, a new on ...

The Amazon Flex program uses a smartphone application to coordinate package deliveries made by individual drivers who are using their own vehicles.

Amazon is asking its delivery drivers to take selfies so it can verify their identities using facial recognition. The rules apply to drivers in the Amazon Flex program, through which they make ...