Melbourne-born start-up GoFetch offers 24/7 point-to-point delivery in major cities
Parcel delivery business CouriersPlease (CP) has announced a partnership with Melbourne start-up GoFetch to offer 24/7 on-demand delivery services across greater metropolitan Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
From November 15, on-demand, out-of-hours, and urgent deliveries can be requested via a dedicated portal.
GoFetch operates a community of more than 4,000 ‘Fetchers’, who collect and deliver point-to-point in under two hours within the same city, using their own delivery method – riding, walking, skating or driving.
Deliveries can be made 24/7, with the journey recorded via GPS tracking on the CP web app and a live chat function enabling direct contact with a Fetcher.
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“It’s a win-win for both companies: CP will usher in a new level of last-mile transparency and access to fulfil urgent, short-distance jobs, and GoFetch will experience more consistent demand, higher job volumes and geographical expansion,” GoFetch CEO Blair Smith says.
“CouriersPlease has shown tremendous foresight in acknowledging that the future of deliveries will be digital. The emerging i-conomy demands an instant and traceable delivery type so a partnership such as this one makes sense. Working with CP will complement our services at GoFetch, rather than be a direct competitor in deliveries.”
CP says its deliveries totalled nearly 18 million parcels in 2017 alone, and its partnership with the point-to-point, on-demand delivery service app will complement its existing ‘hub and spoke’ model.
“It’s a premium offering, perfect for those who need items delivered out of hours or urgently – whether it be for receiving important documents, delivering flowers or gifts in no time, or picking up items that were accidently left behind,” CP head of commercial and transformation Jessica Ip says.