Re:Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online ...
by EliRivers on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:29AM
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Casual courier companies already exist. Employees are paid daily, piecework. They drive their own cars and pay their own fuel. They just pick up parcels at the start of the day and deliver them as best they can. This already exists, so whatever objections you have must have already been surmounted.
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Re:Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online ...
by ebbv on Thursday March 28, 2013 @12:11PM
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> This already exists, so whatever objections you have must have already been surmounted.
There's a huge difference between some fly-by-night operations working in this model already existing and a company the size of Wal-Mart taking it on.
Additionally there's a huge difference between a person coming in daily as a contract employee and a company like Wal-Mart recruiting its customers at the checkout.
The difference is lawsuits and liability when something bad happens. If it's a small company there's not so much assets to go after. If it's Wal-Mart the ambulance chasers will come out of the woodwork.