As the city advises many New Yorkers to stay indoors, delivery workers told News 12 on Friday they are making sure they are ready for this weekend’s snowstorm.<\/p>\n
“Every time there are these kinds of extreme weather conditions, we always feel afraid,” said delivery worker William Medina.<\/p>\n
News 12’s meteorologist forecast more than 8 inches of snow to hit several neighborhoods, starting Sunday and lasting until Monday. Medina has worked as a delivery worker for seven years and said the bad weather will increase the demand for deliveries. <\/p>\n
“It can be between a 12-, 14- or even 16-hour day outside working,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Worker’s Justice Project, a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn, works with more than 60,000 app-based delivery workers as part of their Los Deliveristas Unidos campaign. Co-founder Yadira Sanchez, said customers need to be patient and consider the conditions delivery workers may face that are out of their control.<\/p>\n
“Some people, they’re expecting their delivery and they may think that it’s a delivery person, but it might be that the restaurant is very busy,” she said. <\/p>\n
Another delivery worker, making calls at the center, advising his colleagues of the hazardous conditions expected over the weekend said, “If you used to do a delivery for five minutes, in this storm, you have to add at least ten minutes.”<\/p>\n