“For most markets where DoorDash operates, customers are prompted to tip on the checkout screen, with a middle option already selected by default. If they want to, they can adjust the tip later from the status screen while awaiting their food, or even after it’s delivered. That’s changing today; while blaming New York City’s minimum wage increase for delivery workers, DoorDash announced that for “select markets, including New York City,” tipping is now exclusively a post-checkout option”
It seems so ridiculous given tipping fatigue, that DoorDash is making what should be a given sound like a negative.
lol yeah sure. I don’t know what kind of car you’re exclusively using for delivery driving, but by your logic mine was covered very quickly. So no, it definitely didn’t cost me $0.65 a mile to drive with that in mind.
That’s fine.
The only thing it really tells me is that you are better off using the standard mileage deduction than itemizing your actual vehicle expenses.
I guess you missed the part where your $0.65/mile driving cost argument totally breaks down.
I already addressed that you are not adequately accounting for replacement costs. I further doubt you are adequately accounting for repair costs as well. You’re probably “saving” money doing your own repairs, and not counting the value of your labor as your own mechanic. You’re probably not accounting for insurance costs either. I’d bet the cash in my pockets that you’re underestimating miles driven on your insurance, significantly lowering your rates.
If you are not budgeting $0.655 per mile for vehicle expenses, you are one major repair away from hardship.
It is far more likely that you are not correctly accounting for your expenses than you are significantly below that number over the long run. Using a common, $0.655 per mile estimate negates the effects of all the “tricks” used to artificially lower costs.
I trust the IRS’s numbers far more than I trust some random Lemming.