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.
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Uhmm thats what taskrabbit is for.. If you uber'd me and requested a pack of smokes.. I'd cancel on you..
Yeah, it's as ridiculous as it is clever.
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!"