I've been an Uber/Lyft driver for going on 3 1/2 years, and have dealt with the major stupidity and watching that turn from a fairly lucrative side-gig to basically not worth the hassle.

Over a year ago I signed up for Flex when they opened the Portland, OR market, but only very recently was finally allowed to finish the application. Well, I'm approved and can take blocks of packages (although I live fairly fair from the main downtown package depot), but after watching what's available through the app and reading some stories on here... I'm unsure of even jumping into this. First of all, I have an 8-5 full time job, so all of my work would potentially be on evenings and weekends, which obviously are less profitable/chance of surge than daytime deliveries. Also, I'm mentally crunching the numbers, and most of the blocks offered start at $16-18 an hour. I don't get how it's possible, without surge, to make any money doing this. At least with Uber/Lyft, there's still the possibility, giving the right circumstances, to make $22-26 an hour before expenses. With Flex, you seem like you are locked into those earnings with no way to work your way to more, unless you can manage to deliver 3 hours of packages in 2 or something like that.

Perhaps someone can tell me what I am missing. Thank you.