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Postmates is a logistics company started by Sam Street, Sean Plaice and Bastian Lehmann, which operates a network of couriers who deliver goods locally. Postmates is closely compared to Uber because of its use of mobile phones to receive orders and dispatch delivery drivers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon Not as Unstoppable as It Might Appear )〕 As of December 2014, Postmates operates in 18 U.S. cities.〔 As of 10/17/15 their website now lists more than 100 metropolitan areas. The service is part of a category of businesses that rely on mobile phone applications and their Global Positioning System capabilities to quickly match inventories and consumer demand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - Location services: How GPS delivery is changing shopping )〕 Postmates co-founder Bastian Lehmann calls the company anti-Amazon, saying "Amazon comes along and builds a warehouse outside a city. We like to say the city's our warehouse. We try to understand the inventory available, hacking the city, and having a fleet of delivery people that distribute these inventories."〔 ==History== Postmates was founded in 2011 by Sam Street, Sean Plaice, and Bastian Lehmann and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Postmates )〕 In December 2014, Postmates opened its application programming interface to merchants to allow small businesses to compete for speedy delivery of consumer goods with larger companies such as Amazon.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Will Postmates Dominate Same Day Delivery with Its Open API? - Racked SF )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Postmates, Powering On-Demand Logistics )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Postmates Is Launching An API To Let Third-Party Sellers Offer Local Delivery | TechCrunch )〕 It is currently being tested with Starbucks, McDonald's, Chipotle, 7-Eleven, the Apple Store, Walgreens, and Curbside. The company announced in December 2014 that it had completed its millionth delivery and that it had over 6,000 drivers in its network.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1 Million Deliveries Deep, Postmates Formally Launches An On-Demand API )〕 In June 2015, Postmates announced that they had surpassed 2.5 million deliveries across 28 markets and expanded their fleet to 13,000 couriers. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=We’ve Raised $80M, Led by Tiger Global Management )〕 In September 2015, Postmates unveiled a revamped version of its app, dubbed Postmates 3.0, which features category discovery, delivery tracking, gifting and estimated delivery times. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Postmates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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