200 pounds, same day delivery, $19.99

LDB

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Nahhhh, this isn't cheap freight.

Same day delivery service LicketyShip (previous coverage) is expanding out across the state from their initial beta in San Francisco and the Bay Area, joined by some new partners.

LicketyShip has moved away from serving as a delivery service for online stores (like Kozmo), to servicing local door to door deliveries. You can use it for local business deliveries or last minute packages that need to arrive ASAP.

You set up a delivery by logging on to the site, inputing the start and finish locations, and then paying with a credit card. A short while later, a courier will show up to your door to deliver your package in 1 to 4 hours, depending on your needs and payment ($19.99 starting). Goods can be up to a whopping 5500 pounds and even have their progress tracked on the website, email, or SMS.

LicketyShip seeks to avoid a Kozmo-like flame out by utilizing the pre-existing system of couriers, instead of creating their own. LicketyShip “rents†couriers by paying for deliveries couriers can take during their normally unproductive down time. Whenever an order is placed, their computer system examines prices and reputations couriers to calculate the best route for delivery.

LicketyShip will now be making on demand door to door delivers to all the the major markets over California, including LA, Orange County, Sacramento, and San Diego (including outlying areas). As part of the launch, LicketyShip will be handling deliveries for the LA times, K&L Wines, and Ztail.com.

Using their API, the LA Times will be using the service as a delivery option for the Times’ 40,000 classified listings on Recycler.com. Prices for deliveries start at $19.99 for the first 200 lbs. K&L Wines, will be using the service to offer local, same day deliveries to their consumers over the phone and eventually their website. Ztail, which helps eBay merchants make better listings, will offer LicketyShip deliveries for their eBay auctions.

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Jefferson3000

Expert Expediter
Well, that sounds pretty typical pricing for local courier. Notice that it says, "starting at $19.99". That service area may actually be quite small, high volume area of town. Most local courier companies "give" some included weight within a delivery price, usually somewhere between 50 and 100 pounds. It sound like their selling point may be the 200 pounds included before it starts rising at a typical $.05 per pound. If a box truck is required, the price usually has a surcharge (typically $65) or a raised price per mile. Those truck rates may included anywhere from 500 pounds to 1500 before the price goes up.

Local courier markets are generally even more competitive than airport p and d or even OTR expedited delivery. It is not uncommon to find local courier prices start as low as $12 for a local delivery within a four hour window.

I live in Orlando. It's some of the worst rates in the country for any kind of delivery. We've got over 50 freight forwarders in this town, all grasping for the same small piece of pie.


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