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by flibble 1756 days ago
There’s definitely value in a shared driver pool but it does not need to come hand in hand with a consumer facing marketplace. Doordash offer access to their driver pool for orders placed through any channel (Doordash Drive), Uber offers on-demand drivers in a similar way. Companies like Stuart solely offer a B2B last mile delivery service with their pool of drivers.

This isn’t new either — DPD, UPS, DHL have all offered a shared delivery network (for retail) without anyone expecting that anything that is delivered by DHL must be ordered via DHL.com.