Courier shipping is expensive because it pays for an entire company's trucks, warehouses & routes between two points that might only need one empty suitcase. We built a way to use the suitcase instead — a real traveler, already flying where your package needs to go, carries it for a bounty that's a fraction of a traditional courier fee.

The part that makes two strangers comfortable trusting each other is escrow. Before anything ships, both the sender & the traveler lock up something real — & neither of them gets it back until the package is actually delivered. If something goes wrong, nobody walks away having profited from the other person's loss. That's not a policy we promise to follow; it's built into how the money moves.

No haggling, no chasing a courier's customer service line. A pickup code & a delivery code, entered by the people actually holding the package, release everything automatically the moment delivery is confirmed.

We're building this for shipping.unturf.com. Want the real mechanics — the actual escrow design & what makes it resistant to either side cheating? Read "Under the hood: our shipping escrow" at /blog/under-the-hood-our-shipping-escrow.