On: The Worst Startup Idea

[joeemison]

If your customers pay you before you ship, and they trust the shipper, it's definitely going to happen. Happens every day now already.

[kevingibbon → joeemison]

This same argument can be made for courier services and they seem to manage just fine.

[joeemison → kevingibbon]

There was a courier service that had an office next to mine about 15 years back that took all sorts of precautions that they weren't shipping drugs. Here's an article that shows that those guys (Asheville Courier) weren't an isolated case: http://network.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/article_ext...