Aside from the concerns I share with others of your deliveries being safe, secure, and reliable, here's how I think you should focus your product. I see no poss

Aside from the concerns I share with others of your deliveries being safe, secure, and reliable, here's how I think you should focus your product. I see no possible way that your product could initially address the needs of someone needing to ship something outside of their local city/town. If I'm travelling San Francisco to Manhattan, and your site has matched me up with someone who needs a package shipped from San Fran to the Bronx/Queens/Brooklyn etc, you would have to offer me a pretty high price to deliver that package. I have two suggestions: First, start with deliveries that need to be made within a certain territory. I could maybe see something like this working in a big city like NYC since there are millions of people moving around and your chances of finding fairly precise matches for delivery routes is much higher. Second, I think you would need some sort of drop box system where shippers check in their packages and deliverers check-out the package, deliver the package to the closest drop-box to the destination, and the customers pick up the package from there. I know this second point adds a huge layer of start-up cost to something like this, but it's the only way I could see it working. When the delivery person checks out a package, their account would have to be liable for damage deposit, lost/stolen package/etc and when they deliver successfully, their account would be credited whatever fee you pay them. If you had a network of redbox-like machines in public places for drop-off and pick-up then maybe something like this works. I know what I've just described is probably a completely different idea, but when people are in their cars going somewhere, they've budgeted almost an exact amount of time they need to get where they're going and delivering a package to an unknown destination that may only be a little bit out of the way could completely throw a wrench in that time budgeting.