[Milsurplus] Rideshare package services - offer

Fri May 8 23:11:47 EDT 2015

Hi,

If you put it on yahoo it will not post until after the trip is over. 
Since it's ham related what about a list on this server? Or at least a 
Google list. My vote is for this server (qth.net).

I'm going from Michigan's northern lower peninsula through Ohio around 
the lake (Erie) to MA in a few days. And after visiting with my children 
I'm coming back - a round trip from MI to MA though OH, PA, and I think 
NY. I can't take anything as big and heavy as rack mount heavy iron (in 
a full rack) but I can squeeze in an anchor or two.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 05/08/2015 09:34 PM, Ron Lawrence wrote:
> I think it's a GREAT idea. A couple of my friends and I have been
> talking about it for a while.
> I had a very rare Clough-Brengle transmitter transported this way
> a few years ago, a radio collector friend was attending a meet in
> TX, the transmitter was picked up at the home of the seller by
> the president and auctioneer for the meet at the same time he was
> picking up other stuff for the meets auction. He carried the transmitter
> to the meet where my friend from TN picked it up and took it home
> with him. I was planning to drive from home to my friends home in
> TN when I found out that the son of another friend was driving to
> Charlotte for thanksgiving and would be going very close to my
> friend home where the transmitter was waiting. I told my second
> friend that I would pay his son $100 if he would pick up the
> transmitter on his way through TN and bring it to me. He jumped
> at my offer and a few days later I had my transmitter safe and
> sound all the way from TX.
>
> I think a radio related transport service would be great. I would
> much rather have a radio guy carry my stuff that some slope with
> oopsPS.
> I think all it would take is a special email reflector like a
> yahoo group were guys interested in having things moved and folks
> interested in handling the transport would post messages.
> If you know you're going to be driving from the NE to FLA you
> could post a message saying so, if you have something that needs
> to be moved somewhere along this route you chime in, or if you
> have something you need moved from X to Y say so and see if someone
> going that way wants to help out.
> I'm sure there would be more wrinkles to smooth out, be that's
> the basic idea.
>
> LLAP
>
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> Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 16:35:07 -0700
> From: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
> To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: armyradios at yahoogroups.com, tetrode at googlegroups.com
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Rideshare package services
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> Milsurplus recently discussed the packing and shipping service startup ?SHYP?. I
> agree with the commenters
> who opined that this business model was not long for the world.  $5 for package
> pickup is ludicrously low,
> and SHYP cannot get that much of a discount from UPS, FedEx to actually make a
> living. Maybe their absurdly
> low rates are meant as a starter. But it?s a waste of everyone at that company?s
> time to even pursue this.
>   
> On the other hand, the millennial, smartphone way to ship MAY be a ?rideshare
> package service?. The deal
> is, someone who is already going to drive route A to B offers to haul your item
> along, for some agreed-to fee.
> This sounds good to me. It?s a hand to hand handoff. No double boxing, foam
> packing, conveyer belts, tailgate
> drops to concrete, wondering what your item will look like when it?s unboxed.
> Theoretically.
> A Google search on the term in the title of this email elicits some hits but not
> as much as you?d hope. The
> following quote is from one review site:
>   
> ?The service also eliminates the need for packaging. "We say your cargo can ride
> commando," he says. "It actually can?it's not going to have to bounce through
> four trucks and an airplane to get there. It's going to sit in a blanket safely
> in my backseat. You're reducing packaging materials by at least 80%."
> It's not an entirely new idea?I used Craigslist rideshare to help deliver a
> dresser from storage just last weekend. But by vetting drivers and providing
> some accountability, it's a lot less sketchy than something like Craigslist. The
> service also insures all items up to $500, more than you'd get through a
> traditional shipper.
> While Roadie is starting with a focus on peer-to-peer deliveries, it may
> eventually make deliveries for businesses as well. "You see folks dipping their
> toes in the water with this idea already," Gorlin says. Walmart, he points out,
> has already experimented with asking shoppers to make deliveries to their
> neighbors on their way home. ?
>   
> I don?t have time to pursue more reading about this right now. That can be your
> homework assignment. But I?d say my interest is this potential option is VERY
> high,
> as I plan on selling off quite a bit of equipment in the next couple years.
> The above quote is for this service:
>   
> https://www.roadie.com/
>   
> There is a second one, http://www.rideship.com/   doesn?t seem to be very strong
> yet.
> As I said, digging into these is your assignment.
> I will be very happy indeed to hear about anyone?s experience using such a
> service.
> -Hue Miller / Newport, Oregon
>   
>
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>
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> 73, RON w4ron
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