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Are you providing your couriers with any documentation stating that they are acting as your transport agents in shipping parcels into the country in an attempt

Are you providing your couriers with any documentation stating that they are acting as your transport agents in shipping parcels into the country in an attempt to shield them from any liability? Do you provide all the necessary documentation for importing and clearing customs and/or do you train your couriers on how to perform these duties? Do you provide couriers with legal representation in-country and will you cover all costs for their defense?

tcokoro 11y ago
We currently do not but these are things that we are looking into as we get feedback from current deliveries and quickly iterate. We are open and transparent and let the travelers know what things Shypmate covers and what we don't.
- amazon_not 11y ago
  Please stop before somebody gets hurt.
  - sdoering 11y ago
    Why save people from themselves, if the do this naively? If anyone does use this service (as a courier) and if they do so without asking these obvious questions and then get burned - why protect them? People are (imho) obliged to think for themselves. If they fail to do so why have sympathy?
- fillskills 11y ago
  Glad that you are being honest and upfront. Hope this succeeds and brings more liquidity to the shipping market.
chuk_u 11y ago
It is so obvious that you've never been to Nigeria before that I had to question whether I should even respond to this stringing of words together that you might call sentences. "providing your couriers with any documentation"... are you serious ? Nigeria (the government) has been robbing its citizens for years and allowing poor electricity and poor roads. Should the citizens now worry about whether the Nigerian government should get its cut in the form of tariffs ? No! And again, whoever you are, you are just so stupid to assume that the Nigerian (practiced law) is anything close to what it is in the U.S. that you should just go and find a hole in the ground to dip your head into and pray that God gives you some sense. Nigeria is the type of country where you can pay a "police officer" to go and arrest someone (poorer than yourself) simply because you didn't like the person. "Do you provide couriers with legal representation"...tell me why any Nigerian customs agent would waste the time to put a fellow Nigerian in prison because he was bringing baby shoes or bottles for someone else ?

tcokoro 11y ago

We currently do not but these are things that we are looking into as we get feedback from current deliveries and quickly iterate. We are open and transparent and let the travelers know what things Shypmate covers and what we don't.

amazon_not 11y ago
Please stop before somebody gets hurt.
- sdoering 11y ago
  Why save people from themselves, if the do this naively? If anyone does use this service (as a courier) and if they do so without asking these obvious questions and then get burned - why protect them? People are (imho) obliged to think for themselves. If they fail to do so why have sympathy?
fillskills 11y ago
Glad that you are being honest and upfront. Hope this succeeds and brings more liquidity to the shipping market.

chuk_u 11y ago

It is so obvious that you've never been to Nigeria before that I had to question whether I should even respond to this stringing of words together that you might call sentences. "providing your couriers with any documentation"... are you serious ? Nigeria (the government) has been robbing its citizens for years and allowing poor electricity and poor roads. Should the citizens now worry about whether the Nigerian government should get its cut in the form of tariffs ? No! And again, whoever you are, you are just so stupid to assume that the Nigerian (practiced law) is anything close to what it is in the U.S. that you should just go and find a hole in the ground to dip your head into and pray that God gives you some sense. Nigeria is the type of country where you can pay a "police officer" to go and arrest someone (poorer than yourself) simply because you didn't like the person. "Do you provide couriers with legal representation"...tell me why any Nigerian customs agent would waste the time to put a fellow Nigerian in prison because he was bringing baby shoes or bottles for someone else ?