Anonymous Delivery Service in NYC. Any interest/thoughts?

edit: Whoever gilded this link - why? Send me a PM maybe you and I can talk about this idea some more? And thanks for the gold!

I have a side business that I run for my neighbors where they have their packages shipped to my store and they pick-up from me at their convenience. Most of my customers live in non-doorman buildings and want to avoid missing the UPS truck when they're away from their apartment.

I was wondering if something like this would be of interest to users of Dark New Markets. So rather than ship to your address under your name, you ship it to my service, under a pseudonym. I charge a fee of course, but it might provide a benefit in terms of your privacy and peace-of-mind.

Would this be useful to you? Curious to hear any thoughts on this.


Comments


[6 Points] samwhiskey:

Good way to get free drugs.


[2 Points] Theeconomist1:

I think I'd be frightened to use a service like that. It's great in theory though, but I think once LE got a whiff, they'd be raiding you pretty quick and you'd be dangerous a "bottleneck". The customers would have to trust implicitly that you aren't linking the pseudonym to their real name. If you did things ethically (which in this case means do a good job doing it illegally), it'd be a useful service. Problem is we could never be sure you are solid


[2 Points] WhyDoIneedAname123:

Whats worse, a cop or a junkie looking for free shit?


[2 Points] dnmthrowaway42014:

The problem I see with this is simple. Once the cops catch on to this "business" every single pack addressed to this business will magically start "looking suspicious" and every pack will be seized.


[2 Points] jaspmf:

The problem I see is trust. It's impossible to know that you're not just setting up a nice little honeypot. Yknow, like you're a police. Enough people start using your service and then woop woop here comes the man.

Great idea tho, could easily make yourself and alot of people rich. Plausible deniability for all parties. Probably you should just become a kingpin. Open. boxes w/ fake credentials and go ham


[2 Points] MO_Drugs:

I could see this being a great idea if it could be like a tight co-op. For me to feel safe, so as to not actually be ADDING more stress to this entire process, it would have to scale well.

I would want it to be me and about 9 other CLOSE friends (like High School buddies from 30 years ago type of friends), No co-op member can farm out their end. OK, I am gonna ramble a bit out loud here -

Everyone has to be hands on and reliable. No outsiders, fake names or vacant drops allowed. You have to be LEGALLY or practically associated with any drop address you can add to the scheme. If this were not strictly adhered to then the whole idea loses the true potential you could gain in synergy and scale. Without measurable opportunities and advantages I would kaibash, so this really would need some clean, detailed thinking.

Additionally the co-op needing to be really tight (old friends or immediate family), the individual members ideally would need to be located in a large metro area where there are many different boroughs, burbs, and counties we are stretched across. People could actually enter the coop with as many properties they have that are legit and fit the core mission of sharing risk while reducing stress. You also would get an additional "X" amount of eyes for ideas and discussion. You could even develop a shifting hot-spot planning model (i.e. just got a big order in queens, let that drop rest for 2 cycles etc.)

Hmm

Obviously the numbers could be adjusted and tinkered with on how many members of the coop but there would have to be way more than 2 or 3 of us and I would need implicit trust to have been pre-existing for a significant time period.

I'm not saying that I think your idea of providing receiving services would not work. I am saying that the idea is brilliant and one I have never considered but I would teak it a bit for me and my needs. I'm a little stoned, but I am thinking that maybe I can toy around with this to scale and be safe without needing 10 of us as buyers, some of the team could just be trusted friends and family with geographic advantages to spread the drop risk at least.

did I say, "Hmm?"

Exceptional post. It's so simple that I should have thought about this long ago on my own. I hope it still seems as brilliant after my power nap.

=8D

Thanks woopy!


[2 Points] thefuckyoudoing:

a) You will have way too much drug package and drug dealer traffic coming through your business.

b) Your business will get raided pretty quickly.

It sounds like you have an awesome drop with a lot of plausible deniability. Why not use this drop to import mdma for resale instead? You can use your awesome drop to get a kilo of mdma from lostheaven for $8k. You can resell it to 2, maybe 3, drug dealers for $40/gram. This way you are making a profit of $32k on every shipment.

With this idea you will only have to deal with a few packages a year and a couple of drug dealers VS. making less money dealing with hundreds of packs per year and dozens of drug dealers and getting raided.

If you're paranoid about the 2 or 3 dealers you are working with snitching on you: Make sure they don't know your real ID or where you live or the location of your business.

You can also use a dead drop system using handheld gps devices to mark the coordinates of drugs and/or money if you are really paranoid.


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] loveisrealnfa:

This is a good idea. If you ever want to expand and have more than one 'branch', you could recruit online and then alleviate a bit of the 'bottlenecking' which is a legit concern. the new branches would have to start with 1 pack and then be promoted to more. Then there's the issue of one of the people taking all the packs once they are established, though. It adds another way to get ripped but it also adds a layer of insulation for those who think it is worth it for them.