Starting in January 2023, a new program will offer Amazon DSP drivers up to $5,250 per year in educational benefits, including for college classes, high school completion courses and skill ...

Amazon feels like an “all-encompassing Goliath,” and a “Death Star,” he said. Sauls’s frustrations are typical of the 15 current and former Amazon DSP drivers whom CNN Business interviewed.

Amazon is offering funding for a variety of incentives, services and perks for members of its Delivery Service Partners (DSP) program.

The DSP owners were also tired of Amazon being able to fire their drivers, and then fine the DSPs if they didn’t find another driver to fill whatever routes opened due to the firing.

As a benchmark, that means drivers for Amazon DSP companies now outnumber the 270,000 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, who work for the U.S. Postal Service.

Last month, Amazon added some new technology to complement its Delivery Service Partner (DSP) Program. The latest of those is “Fleet Edge”, new software that helps drivers navigate changing ...

Amazon’s DSP program has been successful because of its long-term partnerships with DSP owners. These new programs from providers are a direct result of feedback from DSPs and drivers.

If DSP drivers successfully organize with the powerful Teamsters, the impact on Amazon could be significant. Amazon could find itself engaging with potentially thousands of unionized workers.

But as Amazon pushes its labor force toward delivering packages to customers faster, its workers are generally out later than competitors, drivers and DSP owners told CNN Business.

Last year an Amazon DSP driver crashed their truck into a low tunnel on a golf course, reportedly because they were instructed to take that route. Amazon declined to comment on the reported crash.

The DSP program has expanded to 10 countries, creating 158,000 jobs at 2,500 DSPs, according to Amazon. One of those drivers is Quentin Sauls, who describes tech disruption as “kind of my thing.” ...