@Linkat,
The money she makes as far as delivery is based on the total of the bill. So someone could order 1 meal from a high end place, and she would make as much as someone who ordered for the whole family from McDonalds.
That said, if someone is ordering for 2 from a high end, yeah it's going to be more, and yes, the tip will be decent.
Overall for me, the tips I make are more or less overall whatever the delivery charge was.
Wow. Only 50% of the people are tipping at all??!!! That's total BS. That's like slave labor.
I would say at least 90 or 95% of people tip here. And the few that don't? You can just tell they aren't going to.
Never did postmates, but each delivery service has it's own system I guess. Which is why I discovered I really liked UberEats and hated Grubhub.
GH wanted you to sign up for certain one hour windows. But if there were no windows available, you could just sign on anyway. I quickly realized there was no benefit for me of signing up. First off, now I was committed on a certain day and certain time. Quite frankly, sometimes the time would approach and I'd be like "Nope, don't feel like working." So I would just log on whenever and it didn't seem to make a diff.
Also w/ GH, you would get a notification of an order and you could accept or reject it. I felt like they were playing games if you rejected something, and you'd be sitting around in your car waiting for anything.
I'd reject an order if it was too far away, or, and this was the killer, it would tell you right up front how much you were goning to get paid, including the tip, because customers pre-tipped.
You would keep getting crap offer after crap offer. It felt, I can't really say stressful (it would have been if I depended on this to make a living), but just frustrating. I also didn't like, as I said, the navigation system, which can make or break a delivery going smoothly.
The way UE does it is you get an offer. It tells you XYZ Cafe 2.1 miles. So right there you know it's close. It will also say the delivery is worth (and a lot of times it was this absurdly small amount), but I thought, I'm learning this, just take it and see what happens.
Well next, I hardly EVER had to wait when I got to the restaurant, even if it was only a couple miles away. You then get the customer address and miles, and notes the customer may have made. Now the actually delivery may have only been $3. 00, but AFTER you delivered, you would eventually see the customers tip show up, like $7 or $8 or more. I averaged a little more than 2 deliveries an hour, so like $22 - $25 an hour. The customer didn't tip until after delivery. I always made pleasantries of course, and would add if possible things like "You're notes were really great! So helpful. I wish everyone did that!" or "Oh what a cute dog." Sometimes people would apologize that their dog barked inside when I'd ring the bell, and I'd say, "Oh no, I like hearing that. It means you're home, and he's telling you to answer the door." It might not always help your tip, but it sure doesn't hurt. Also, I'd always say "Enjoy your meal!"
The main thing is I am always delivering with UE. Whenever I would be within a few blocks of the customers house, another order would come in and there would be no down time at all. I think the most I was ever idle would be 5 minutes, and that was rare.
Also, I would turn on the app while I was still home, and just be doing things until the first order arrive. Usually wasn't long.
Tell you daughter once she gets into the swing of things, it really just feels like you're going over to a friend or relatives house, and they asked you to pick up a meal on the way over. It really does end up feeling that easy.
