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To the editor:
If you read Charles DiMaria's op-ed piece, "Don't kill my office delivery business" in the New York Daily News without checking out what he actually does, you might have sympathy for his sob story. At 50 years old, he decided to stop helping others build businesses and build his own.
His business, Accelerated Flywheel Logistics, has 175 employees and a fleet of 40 cargo e-bikes making deliveries.
In reality, their only client is Amazon. You can only accept DiMaria's claim that he provides "good jobs" if you believe that's a fitting description for those that pay $20 an hour.
Accelerated Flywheel Logistics exists so Amazon can claim they are not responsible for the drivers' low salaries. The drivers are technically employees of Accelerated, not Amazon.
Richard Warren
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wpeakes
I agree. I also believe that Amazon pays him enough to pay his staff more than $20 per hour but then there's that pesky profit margin to worry about!
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