How to Tip Your Amazon Driver $5 for the Holidays at No Cost to You

Amazon drivers work hard, often with little gratitude from the customers they deliver to. But periodically, Amazon runs the “Thank My Driver” promotion, offering you the chance to thank your hardworking driver at no additional cost. 

The promotion runs for a limited time. The exact end date hasn’t been specified by Amazon, but previous promotions have typically run through the holiday season.

How to tip your Amazon driver for free

• If you’ve got an Echo device, you can say, “Alexa, thank my driver.” 
• If you don’t own an Alexa device, you can search for the phrase “Thank my driver” on the Amazon app, and then click the top result.
• On the Amazon website, I was also able to do it by logging in and following this link to reach a page with a big yellow “Thank my driver” button. Clicking it confirmed that a tip was sent to my driver for the most recent delivery. 

This applies to your most recent driver, valid for up to 14 days after the delivery date. You’re also able to thank the same driver multiple times, but they’ll only receive one tip per delivery. 

In the past, Amazon ended the promotion after a million thank-yous were given out. (It continued to send the thanks, even though no monetary reward was associated with it.) Last year, the company also ended its holiday promotion on January 3, after 4 million thank-you messages were sent out. 

It’s unclear whether it works the same this time around. We’ve reached out to Amazon for clarification but haven’t heard back yet. 

Since Amazon first introduced the Thank My Driver promotion in 2022, it says customers have thanked their delivery drivers more than 40 million times.

Amazon has previously gotten itself in hot water for allegedly withholding driver tips. An FTC settlement in 2022 saw Amazon pay a $61.7 million settlement to settle charges that it withheld tips from Flex drivers who use their own cars to deliver Amazon packages.

In this case, the money isn’t coming directly from you, but Amazon is passing $5 along to the driver. In either case, it doesn’t hurt to send a thank-you if you were happy with your most recent Amazon delivery.