Technical New Way To Ship Your Parts

I read about this new shipper just now and thought it might be a real problem-solver
for you guys that need a means of getting your parts to or from your location.

https://www.roadie.com/about/overview

 

Sounds mighty neighborly. Until there's a problem.

 

It's like the H.A.M.B. relay with strangers.
Curious to hear any future reviews.

 

With UPS as an investor I wouldn't be too concerned.

 

Who insures what you send will get there safely or even get there? Seems rather shaky to me, but I'd love to read some reviews. Let us know what you find out.

 

UPS is not directly an investor,their spin off venture capital fund is an investor. Venture capitalists are known for swinging for the fences-sometimes a home run, sometimes a strikeout. UPS the corporation is not directly backing these guys-besides, how many complaints about UPS own shipping do you read? I,personally, like UPS and rally like our corp. delivery guy, but if there's trouble delivering their own stuff, that's not real ***urance that they can back another shipper.

 

Not meant as a snip at you but you obviously haven't had a unresolved problem like I have with UPS. HRP

 

Anyone started this in Canada?

 

I'd bet you would change your tune if after spending a couple grand for some "holy grail" pieces, the seller tells you he shipped them with Roadie.

 

No problem..........stick with the HAMB relay.

 

So people driving around handing off items to other people with no officials in the middle? Could be interesting, it does have a sort of 1970's appeal to it, too bad most of that decade is a blur for me. But everyone tells me I had a good time.

 

People seem to love Uber so I can see Roadie working.

 

I used a HAMB relay once to get a trans from the mid-west to Hershey, PA with two days notice. It worked and I was stoked. Never underestimate the good in people I guess.

 

interesting. like any new operation it will take someone to step up and try it and see what happens. there is one reality TV show that has random delivery people bidding on picking up an item and delivering it through a national posting service. kind of like when you are looking for a shipper of a car. there are services for getting a ride from regular people that are not part of a standard Taxi type service. used to be, may still exist, a posting service for transporting cars from one point to another by having them driven rather than transported on a truck. hey, amazon is planning to deliver stuff using drones. yep, guarantees of delivery and what happens when delivery goes wrong is a big question.

 

I just liked the idea of having an order of ****tered, smothered, chunked, topped,
diced and blistered hash browns at the Waffle House whenever I shipped anything.

Nothing is fail-safe.......I've gotta believe there's insurance available.