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« on: August 18, 2011, 06:09 pm »
First off, I can't believe that Im actually debating this idea, lol. But here are your obstacles.
1.you are going to have to have vehicles in every state in the USA, then you will have to have vehicles in every country and vehicles in every city in the world.
2. You will have hundreds, if not thousands of employees. Im betting that you lose 50 percent or more due to theft. If all your employees know that drugs are for sure inside each package?
3. While its nice concept to dream about, I think a re-shipper idea is more plausible. But then again, you are trusting someone else, whom you don't know, with your product.
It would be much easier to say in los angeles and have vehicles that pick up and then deliver it to the customer within a 50 mile radius, do you know what you would have to charge per package? It would have to be more than 50 bucks a piece, most likely much more.
I'm all for entrepreneurship, but what you are proposing is a billion dollar idea, literally...Plus, if you got to be bigger than 5 vehicles, don you think that LE would easily figure out what you are doing? The only way is to start up a legit service like a new fedex as a cover. i can just see it now, your driver and a passenger with a van full of narcotics and then the red and blue lights light up behind you, I can envision a "Holy shit, we are busted look"
I'm sorry, but I just don't see how it can work and do it with out a ton of capital. even if you do, try keeping your business under the radar. just isn't going to happen. I would love if it could be, but it just aint going to happen, sorry...Now, reshipping on the other hand, that MIGHT be plausible. Trust me, im an optomist, but I just don't see how this would work and be successful.
Let me know when you get this up and running, I would like to see the your business model. I could barely make a profit with my lost luggage delivery service. I would get paid between 20-100 bucks a bag, depending on where it had to be delivered. with only one airline, I had about 10 vehicles and there was no way I could go more than a couple hundred miles away from the airport. I eventually had to give it up because I was losing too much money. I guess you could get a taxi network going. Have one taxi hand it off to another taxi, etc. but the costs are going to be so high, it just wouldnt be worth it. Plus, with usps/fedex/ups how can you compete with their prices and delivery times?