I miss kozmo.
I Was A Postmates Courier For A Day
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#12I miss kozmo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
Maybe these guys will do better by underpaying couriers rather than paying the cost of automobiles.
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#13This seems very much like a prearranged PR event. He says: "... but to be honest, I’m not sure what I would have made for the deliveries themselves. Postmates recently changed its pricing policy to charge users based on the difficulty of the job, and it declined to disclose how much it pays its couriers for those jobs." So it is pretty clear that the company is not treating him as an employee, but is giving him speci…
It's a pretty bad PR event that ends up with an article that makes it sound like a courier nets about a quarter of the minimum wage...
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#14Postmates is really interesting - especially the get it now service. The people I know definitely earn more than $2 & change per hour. I've seen upwards of $30 in a given hour delivering food, with an average of about $12-14.
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#15At the risk of being Mr. Obvious, Postmates badly needs three things:
1. An Android app (I saw only the iOS app listed), with a direct download link, just for giggles.
2. A page on their website which replicates the app's functionality. I mean, it's HTML5/CSS/JS, right?
3. Smarter vendors, which accept and acknowledge orders by text, web, or (a different) app, to help the couriers earn, and to deliver the goods faster.
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#16Postmates has a lot of similarity with Uber: they are both moving toward the grail of an on-demand logistics platform.
Where I am really excited is to see these companies figure out all the logistic hurdles and then provide an API on top of it. By doing this they will abstract away all the crazy complexities of having to move a real world object to real world destination.
You could build entire companies off these platforms.
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#17This seems very much like a prearranged PR event. He says: "... but to be honest, I’m not sure what I would have made for the deliveries themselves. Postmates recently changed its pricing policy to charge users based on the difficulty of the job, and it declined to disclose how much it pays its couriers for those jobs." So it is pretty clear that the company is not treating him as an employee, but is giving him speci…
Hristov, the only thing we didn't disclose is how much commission Ryan would receive per job - but if you look around a little you will see that our Postmates receive between 60%-80% of the delivery fee as commission. A Postmate makes money even if a customer does not tip. The tipping is just a bonus.
I believe you. I am just saying that it would have been a better article if he did not let you know he was doing this and applied as a regular person to get the real experience.
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#18> To be honest, $8.00 in tips isn’t a lot for three hours of biking around town. But I got stiffed on my last delivery, it was pointed out… And I was told by Postmates HQ that couriers typically do multiple jobs simultaneously, which increase the amount they receive. I was just unlucky in that I had to wait in line for ridiculous amounts of time at two of the locations, otherwise my tips would have been higher. So wh…
It's definitely a cultural thing, but England doesn't sound that different from America. From what I've read, a Japanese person would likely find it 'shameful' that you tip at all, even for a great job, because it implies they don't take pride in their work and only did a great job for the money.
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#19This seems very much like a prearranged PR event. He says: "... but to be honest, I’m not sure what I would have made for the deliveries themselves. Postmates recently changed its pricing policy to charge users based on the difficulty of the job, and it declined to disclose how much it pays its couriers for those jobs." So it is pretty clear that the company is not treating him as an employee, but is giving him speci…
It's a pretty bad PR event that ends up with an article that makes it sound like a courier nets about a quarter of the minimum wage...
Again, i have no idea where this is coming from. Our Postmates actually earn way more than other couriers. Ryan is just talking about his additional tip!
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#20It would be nice if the website contained more information about the providers, service area, fees, you know... anything that might actually help me decide whether I want to use the app or not.
Currently it's just a very slick ad for "download the app! trust us, it will fulfill all your wildest fantasies!"
I don't want to download the app just to find out "Sorry, the world stops existing outside of Market Street/The Embarcadero/Church Street".