12 karma · joined August 31, 2020
Our drivers would need a cars since books can be heavy and majority of the customer will place large numbers of holds.
We have three different orders customers can put in. Pickup only, pickup/return and return only. Each order is 6.50.
Local libraries around the US don't have the budget or capacity to start delivery service for the entire county. Our tax money doesn't stretch that far when it comes to library services.
Why buy a book if you can rent one from your tax money to local libraries.
Why put others at loss, if you can create jobs for people who enjoy working in gig economy.
We have three different orders customers can put in. Pickup only, pickup/return and return only. Each order is 6.50 for delivery.
We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone.
Our service is for those who are interest in print media. Secondly, our tax money goes into our local libraries so might as well utilize it. :)
I have 4 kids under the age of six. So we pretty much put alot of books on hold every week. Utilizing our tax money!
We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone.
I'm very sorry about your feeling on middleman. As for our drivers, they have the ability to make significant amount of money from one library pickup. For example, if there are 20 orders to be picked from one library this can generate significant amount of pay in one library stop.
Local libraries around the US don't have the budget or capacity to start delivery service for the entire county. Our tax money doesn't stretch that far when it comes to library services. However, there are libraries that do have delivery service, but its only for patrons with permanent disability or other limitation.
Yes, it does cost money to delivery your books. However, your library books are free of cost (taxpayer funds).