Hacking Uber (For Cigarette Delivery)

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Uber Icecream via The Verge
Uber Icecream via The Verge

While Uber is generally known as the modernized, Internet-connected car service, a friend-of-a-friend has discovered it can also be used for efficient local delivery. Of course, the rates may exceed a specialized service like Takeout Taxi and your driver may object, but the courier/delivery possibilities seem nearly endless. And the Southern Californian in question had a driver arrive at his home at which point he requested the car drive off to buy and deliver a pack of smokes. Which he did. Score?

I’ve yet to use Uber, as the fees to transport me from DC-proper to the hinterlands exurbs have been a bit more than I can bare. But maybe I’ll finally take the plunge next week after the Verizon/Fosterly Connected Home event.

8 thoughts on “Hacking Uber (For Cigarette Delivery)”

  1. Uhmm thats what taskrabbit is for.. If you uber’d me and requested a pack of smokes.. I’d cancel on you..

  3. Oh, the fun adventures of the nouveau riche — rediscovering the joys that the established elite have known for generations, and thinking these are their own inventions!

    Yes, people have been doing this with taxis for a hundred years now — those who can afford it anyway — and cabdrivers will often expect a little extra for being your gopher.

    And back in the 19th Century it was customary for the wealthy to treat anyone in the servant class as a personal messenger or “taskrabbit.” Just flip your coolie a bright shiny copper after he delivers your smokes, he’ll probably touch his cap and say “Thank ye, guvnor!”

  4. God bless America! Where us commoners can work real hard and one day have a shot at getting our cancer sticks delivered. Reminds me of the time Apple didn’t immediately send someone to Martha’s house to retrieve her shattered iPad following her Twitter SOS. Guess that level of service is reserved for the Kennedys, Rockefellers, and Graysons.

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