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Nice website. I think, unfortunately, the concept may have some fatal flaws... 1. If you need to ship a package across the country, don't you think it would
by jaboody 16y ago
Nice website. I think, unfortunately, the concept may have some fatal flaws...
1. If you need to ship a package across the country, don't you think it would be much faster to go with a major carrier because they can ship your stuff by air?
2. Would people really trust just any person with a car to deliver stuff that might be important? What if it got stolen by the driver? What would you do then to make the situation right?
3. Would you provide tracking information for packages that are shipped? What about day estimations on delivery?
4. How would it be profitable for the driver? Usually the major carriers are able to use economies of scale to spread out the fixed costs over many packages. If your driver had 3 packages to deliver and their delivery addresses were in different parts of town, wouldn't your driver lose money on gas and the time it would take him to drive around town to deliver the packages?
- swah 16y ago1. Perhaps something similar could be done with people travelling on airports? (Ok, it's very dangerous to just carry random stuff, but perhaps would work for books or things like that)
- enjo 16y agoI've run into that very model before. There are courier services that effectively pay folks to carry things on to planes. They then drop it off on the other side at the courier desk and go on their merry way. I did that a bunch of years ago (mid 90's).