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UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service

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#11

Can somebody give an example of a service that needs this, where Fedex wouldn't do?

FedEx is not really focused on same day/same hour intra city delivery. Most of the shipping providers have an infrastructure around warehouses set in place. This means that the shipping providers picks up all packages and then brings them to a warehouse where they are sorted and then shipped out again. UberRush comes to the pick-up location and directly brings it to the recipient.

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#12

Can somebody give an example of a service that needs this, where Fedex wouldn't do?

The on-demand aspect of the service is what I believe to be most important. FedEx et all will deliver to my doorstep, but can they be here in an hour?

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#17

Better hope domino's doesn't enter the market. Not sure if they could since it's all franchises. But, I imagine they could price it less than $6 per delivery.

maybe not. dominos makes money from the pizza it is selling not just the delivery fee. if they had to purely make profit from delivery it might be a similar price

I'd imagine it comes down to multitasking - could Dominos successfully deliver pizza at the same time as other items? Each delivery fee would only have to make up the difference of the distance they were already traveling to the additional destination. Considering their coverage, and the fact that the drivers have central hubs and don't have to spend time idling, I think they could offer more competitive pricing while still profiting. They also have more freedom to prioritize pizza/packages as needed, where an Uber driver can't (reasonably) add a stop to their to route with a passenger in car.

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe not. dominos makes money from the pizza it is selling not just the delivery fee. if they had to purely make profit from delivery it might be a similar price

I'd imagine it comes down to multitasking - could Dominos successfully deliver pizza at the same time as other items? Each delivery fee would only have to make up the difference of the distance they were already traveling to the additional destination. Considering their coverage, and the fact that the drivers have central hubs and don't have to spend time idling, I think they could offer more competitive pricing whil…

Exactly this. The fact that dominoes makes money off the pizza sale just means they have a business stream to subsidize the cost of delivery to nearby locations.

Same reason Amazon can run Fresh. If you order groceries and your neighbor orders an Amazon package, just pocket the money that would've been paid to a carrier to deliver that box and get your Fresh driver to do so instead.

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