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High Cost + Low Margins = No disruption any time soon.

The ubercab for parcel delivery service could work. But only if the margins get better doing it that way

You'd also need to get over the trust issues involved. I 'trust' that Royal Mail won't open my shit when they deliver it to me (when it actually comes).

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Very good points. I was thinking about the trust issue and it is tricky. Incentive for fencing the item(s) must be lower than incentive for delivery. Things like this comes to mind: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1848278

Might have to cap the cost of the items you can deliver to something like £200

Also if you knew what driver last had the package, and it was never delivered, then some sort of punishment happens. Works in theory but there is lots I am probably not thinking of :)

A rating system could work in theory. Putting it into practice would be hard though.

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