For anything but same day? It isn’t
For a same day delivery? It is the cheapest courier service out there since the gig economy is all about pushing every expense onto the workers.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How is Doordash cheaper than UPS? Or USPS? Or virtually any other shipping method?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
ThisIsFineDotJpeg@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
The thing is, the only options I got was same-day for $9.99, or “tomorrow” for free, no other options.
Guess what, the “tomorrow” was actually 2 days later, and they still didn’t bother just using UPS.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
And if you live as close to a Best Buy as it sounds, both would likely just be same day delivery on their end. Just a question of when they box up your order.
rumba@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
For local deliveries you’re paying for 15 minutes of somebody’s time and a non-commercial vehicle.
It’s only one person, it doesn’t have to be warehoused, stored, scanned, checked, and that one person and their vehicle are both WAY under paid.
With a professional shipping service you need a fractional amount of time of a professional driver, a large corporate truck, a local brick and mortar ship center, staff there, Warehouse equipment, and because it has to change hands several times, it needs to be going pretty quickly. Then another driver and another truck.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Probably a contract deal rather than individual leasing, and business deals often include bulk discounts
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
UPS or USPS has to pay for health insurance, retirement plans, vehicle maintenance, gas, all kinds of stuff.
With Lyft the driver is responsible for everything, and since there’s lots of people with cars, they can just churn through them.