Postmates is an app that lets you order almost anything — including restaurant meals, groceries, and personal items — and have it delivered to your doorstep in under an hour.
The $400 million startup is one of the cornerstones of the on-demand economy, enabling tech-savvy millennials to reach a new level of laziness.
As someone who uses Postmates to secure dinner several nights out of the week, I wondered how it felt to be on the other side of the transaction. What's it like to be a Postmates courier, running around town doing strangers' bidding?
Postmates invited me to spend an afternoon following one of its couriers to find out. As a caveat, the company's employees placed the orders, so the experience may have varied from a courier's typical day.
Meet Edgar, a San Francisco newbie celebrating his one-year anniversary as a Postmates courier this December. He was my guide.
Edgar picked me up from the Postmates' headquarters at 2 p.m., in the middle of his day-long shift. We hopped into his tomato red Mini Cooper.
Almost immediately, the Postmates app alerted us to a delivery request nearby. The user wanted shampoo and a toothbrush from Walgreens. We had an hour to complete the job.
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