Innovative Courier Service

I've come up with a solution to city couriering and wanted to get some feedback before launch.

It is a location based courier service for anyone to use. It will allow people and businesses to transport items in a cheap and quick way. Users will post their delivery request on our app and specify how much they will pay for the delivery. Depending on where the delivery is coming and going to, users who are in walking distance of the pick-up point will be able to see the request on our app. If the delivery is en-route to where ever they are going initially they can choose to accept it. This will save people and small businesses time and effort and give other people an opportunity to earn a bit. Examples of this service would be when you need your lunch delivered to your office or home because you are too busy or if you want your shoes to be purchased and delivered to your home.

What do you think of this concept?

Replies appreciated.Never too late for changes.

Trust is a problem. I'm going to hand over my package to someone I don't know, and give them money? What motivation do they then have to actually deliver it?

I love the idea of crowd-sourcing things like this. If we could trust everyone then the savings and efficiencies would be phenomenal. Unfortunately you can't trust everybody, and given a network that relies on trust, someone will exploit it to personal gain and other people's loss.

If you can crack that problem then you've really got something.

This was one of the first things we thought of ourselves and have came up with a few precautions to ensure the security of items. We will give users the ability to restrict who delivers their item, whether it's a professional, a friend, a trusted user.