I still remember a night in January 2023, I tossed and turned in bed, my chest pressed against my back, I couldn't sleep, I picked up my cell phone and ordered a takeout, placed a takeout order. I was bored and looked at the order information, "Merchant took the order? Did the rider take the order? Did the rider arrive at the store? Rider picked up the food? Rider started delivery? The rider is 1.1KM away from you?" .

I suddenly had a great idea for a takeout rider!

First sign up for an account and deliver your first order with the heartbeat of your first love.

Just do as you say, first complete the preparations for the rider: download Meituan's crowdsourcing software, sign up for an account, fill in your personal information, set up a permanent location, and complete the necessary online training courses. I completed these preparations early in the morning, but never started sending my first order. My heart kept pounding as I swiped through the list over and over again in the software lobby, but I was too afraid to do anything about it. The last time this happened was when I was 16. The girl sitting on my left hand had touched my hand a couple times and I still did nothing. I was really useless . 3 p.m. I couldn't do it. l had to take the first step. First, I found a pickup and delivery order with an approximate location on it. Let's all get our hands on the order! The first order was to deliver food to Wallace. Even though the user address was hidden for so long, I remembered that this customer's address was right next to my house. She went downstairs to Iron Gate to eat, and she was in her pajamas. Don't ask me why I remember it so well because the first time .

Seriously, the first delivery is fresh and exciting. And you can see the delivery fee showing up in my account in real time after the order was completed (I later learned that the money could not be withdrawn until it arrived the next morning). At that moment I felt that Jack Ma was nothing. When I was still immersed in the image of Jack Ma giving me a toast, the system sent me an order, an order less than a hundred meters away. The customer was in the neighborhood and the merchant was at the storefront in front of the neighborhood. What? Is delivery really picking up money? I rode my ass to the business and told the boss about Mission X. I didn't expect the boss to ignore me. Asked again and the boss told me in the box at the door without looking up. Yo, turns out there are usually takeout boxes in front of takeout businesses.

January 26, the first day, did 15 single. Had a 2.5 hour meal break from 3pm to 10pm.

First single

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Two, rookie delivery, especially energetic but often unable to find addresses.

Rookies are rookies after all, and the first few days of delivery were rather special. Do not dare to send two orders at the same time, grab a single delivery. There were several orders, and it took about 10 minutes from grabbing an order to delivering it. I remember there was a milk tea order, pickup and delivery locations are very close. When I delivered it to the customer, the pretty girl muttered to herself in surprise. How can it be so fast? I had just placed the order. I just told her "Enjoy your meal" and turned away to grab my next order. Well, it's true that my yellow undershirt is a bit bright.

Knowing that it's a waste of time to find a customer's address when you've just started delivering is a real waste of time. You don't know where the entrance to the neighborhood is, where the building is, but navigating to the address doesn't lead to a specific door number. Fortunately, I have a thick skin, and the experience summarized online is to boldly ask for directions! I've asked passersby, people in the neighborhood, peers, customers.

It should be said that the peer is the most friendly. After all, a brother in the trenches remember once at noon rush hour, a group of riders to help me send the meal to the 22nd floor of the office building. The yellow vest on that brother was also so bright. The people in the neighborhood and passersby are also very friendly and will usually answer you if they know each other. But sometimes they have a deviation in understanding and also find the wrong one, but you can find it if you take more time to look slowly.

The experience in crowdsourcing and online is not to call customers directly. After all, being a rider is about customer service and labor. I've also had the experience of asking a customer directly and clearly hearing their impatience on the phone, asking twice because she told me how to get there and I couldn't find my way! Luckily, I finally found the address and delivered it to the meal. I didn't wait for me to wait for this customer to speak, I apologized first. As the saying goes

Running for more than a month, starting from 1V1 special delivery, at the same time to receive three single (dare not take a single up, up to four single, delivery on the sweaty back). I violated 11 times, delivery timeout 6 times, pickup location abnormal 4 times, order canceled 1 time. The newbie used a cancellation card to eliminate three violations, and three more delivery time-out complaints were successful.

The first overtime delivery was in the same city to pick up a single, on the way to pick up two more orders. It was also because of a long search for the customer's address, resulting in a 5-minute timeout for the last one in the same city. I called the single customer in the same city ahead of time, apologized, and then asked if she could confirm the shipment first. She replied yes. I would go ahead and deliver, but according to my phone, the customer did not order delivery. Alas, it was delivered 5 minutes later and I apologized to her in person. The next day the crowdsourcing software prompted a chargeback of 40% of the unit price. Hopefully the customer agreed to change the delivery time by filling out a complaint and reason. Unexpectedly, the appeal went through that afternoon. It should have been a return visit from Mission customer service to confirm with the customer. What a great customer!

After running for half a month, the site station manager starts contacting you by phone, implying that you're having fun, running well, etc. I replied that I was running part time and didn't have that much time. Anyway, he just wants you to be a full time rider and earn a higher income or something like that. And he didn't know if there was a pit or not.

It has to be said that the United States crowdsourced dead riders. Big data to analyze your running habits, according to your running data to push you reward activities. If the last activity 15 tickets reward 45 yuan, you completed, then the next activity 20 tickets reward 45 yuan. This is really disgusting behavior on the part of Mission. In order to get a reward, it's making you inspire you to greater potential (faster and faster).

Fourth, end of story. It's actually quite tiring to be a rider.

A month or so of part-time running was fulfilling (actually exhausting). I usually run for a couple hours in the evening and then roll up my sleeves to dry off on the weekends. I came back and collapsed into bed, fell asleep after checking my phone, and my meals got bigger. I also got sick during that time, because the weather was cold and hot and I was overdressed. I sweated on the stairs during delivery (6th and 7th floor stairs all the time) and couldn't stand the cold wind on my electric bike.

March orders were low, unit prices were low, and there wasn't much activity. Suddenly there is no desire to run orders. Looking online, it seems like the takeout off-season is coming. Coupled with the impact of the epidemic, I made an important and difficult decision: not to run for a while.

Looking back on more than a month's experience, it's actually very hard for takeout riders. Salute, salute

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Related Q&A: Related Q&A: part-time Meituan crowdsourcing can't snatch the order, the unit price of the dispatched orders is only 4 or 5 yuan on average, it's hard to do, may I ask how do you do?

I'll answer your question I'm also a part-time run takeaway In fact, now everyone's situation is the same Now is a single less people more you do not run someone run so the platform price more and more to give the lower There are places a single more than three dollars now run takeaway really do not want to earn money Earn a living wage is not bad can only be a part-time run takeaway send a single basically two or three kilometers to give four or five dollars a lot of time or fly solo. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to afford to pay for this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to afford to pay for it.