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Zipments

Zipments.com is a courier service with a slightly different twist. With this service, the customers can put up shipping duties while couriers can bid according to the shipping job put up. Out of all the bids received, the customer can certainly pick the best courier for the job.

It has a similar idea with other services like Zaarly or TaskRabbit, the only difference is that Zipments.com mainly focuses on the courier jobs.  So if you want a speedy delivery, you can easily get going with Zipments, set prices accordingly, and someone will most likely deliver it straight to you within an hour.

In a nutshell, a crowd- sourced courier is what Zipments is trying to create, a cheap courier that will let you deliver across the town. Since May, it has been live in the Grand Rapids and has already expanded to New York City and Chicago.

Indeed, Zipments is nothing short of a real courier community where every delivery is done for you, no matter when you ask for it. Every item are delivered at your beck and call so becoming a registered user of Zipments, you are guaranteed of a fast and reliable service. To get started, all you need to do is make a listing while spelling out the details on what you need collected, and the where and when it needs to be taken. Then, other Zipments users will start bidding for the job posted, and the winner will do it immediately.

Zipments, as a service, is a useful one not only for those busy individuals but also for those local businesses that are just expanding. Without hiring further employees to get all the job done and causing important changes in terms of infrastructure, they will get to cover wider territory as they want.

Not only people who want a fast delivery will benefit from it, but also the locals who will make some extra money in their spare time by just simply taking items from one place to another.