The tip you give to the UPS driver is a real tip for good service, not a necessary wage supplement to keep them from starving.
How is it good service? Does the driver have any control over the traffic?
I often meet the driver. Some of them are nicer than others.
I would guess that the ratio of the number of tips to the number of deliveries for UPS/FedEx/USPS is orders of magnitude lower than for Instacart/DoorDash/etc.
The UPS guy doesn't have to push a cart around the store to fill your order, either
And those delivery drivers are paid a wage, unlike the $0.80 per hour w/o tips from instacart.
Isn't there a minimum wage even for tipped workers at like 2$ something?
These types of "gig workers" aren't employees, they are independent contractors so minimum wage doesn't apply to them.
there is a term for that in German "Scheinselbstständigkeit" basically "pretend independence", seems more like a loophole than anything else