P2Post - Peer to Peer Post Office

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Everyone knows the Post Office is among the most inefficient, government-run programs in the world. Why not cut them out of the equation and give everyone a system to deliver mail themselves, so they can gain income and repuatation from it?

History

All credit for this amazing idea goes to SAFE Forum user "TungSvard," in this post where he explained the need. The Uber model has proven very revolutionary in breaking up the monopolistic powers of the Taxi Industry, and if we apply a more evolved version of that model to the Post Office, amazing things are bound to happen. That being said, it is unknown if any SAFE developer has taken up this project yet, despite its extreme value.

Features

The ability for any user to deliver mail, packages or even large objects to another place for payment is the main functionality of this app. Another requirement is a reputation system, to ensure people get adequately de-ranked and possibly banned from the system if they steal or snoop on the mail they are responsible for. One last possible feature--inspired by Uship.com--would allow interested mail-carriers to reverse-bid eachother down, until a price is accepted by the sender.

Launch Date

It was expected that the network would launch at the end of last year, (and this app soon after,) however an amazing new coding language came out called "Rust" that turned out to be perfect for the SAFE Network to be created with. So, the team decided to restart the whole network from scratch in Rust. This means we will have to wait a few more months to see the network or this app. Follow it on Github!