Comments on: LicketyShip – Web 2.0 Gone Too Far? http://www.ideatagging.com/licketyship-web20-gone-too-far/ Business Ideas For All By All Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:36:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Owen Thomas http://www.ideatagging.com/licketyship-web20-gone-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Owen Thomas Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:52:41 +0000 http://www.ideatagging.com/licketyship-web-20-gone-too-far/#comment-91 Got to say, while your idea's a cute social-network spin on the Kozmo idea, I'd think you'd have tremendous trouble actually getting people to perform deliveries and getting customers to trust such freelance, nonprofessional delivery personnel. Courier companies are licenses, bonded, and insured, and - most important of all - willing to work weekdays. As well, most courier companies now have GPS systems tracking courier location and availability into which companies like LicketyShip can connect. Recreating all of those systems for some kind of true peer-to-peer delivery service, when courier companies have capacity to spare, seems kind of pointless. Got to say, while your idea’s a cute social-network spin on the Kozmo idea, I’d think you’d have tremendous trouble actually getting people to perform deliveries and getting customers to trust such freelance, nonprofessional delivery personnel.

Courier companies are licenses, bonded, and insured, and – most important of all – willing to work weekdays. As well, most courier companies now have GPS systems tracking courier location and availability into which companies like LicketyShip can connect. Recreating all of those systems for some kind of true peer-to-peer delivery service, when courier companies have capacity to spare, seems kind of pointless.

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