Kitchie
Gallente
Kitchie's Logistics and Marketing Corp
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Posted - 2009.04.25 08:27:00 -
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My bread and butter business is Logistics and couriering so it's interesting to read the ideas of people here, which are primarily from the issuer side.
Comments and thoughts:
- Hunting for the right contract to complete is a major pain. Yes please allow us to right-click the package and have a "Complete" option or "View Contract" for that item
- Separating courier from other contracts make sense except that with the current size limitation, a large number of the courier jobs I do, have to be done through Item Exchange as they are often far larger than 120km3 and often multiple freighter loads e.g. Cap Ship Component Shipping. Issuer assigns goods to me for collateral price; I ship to destination and contract back at Collateral + reward
- Plastic wraps are pointless, we can see what's in the package, even if it's in a container, and being able to split packages would mean there would be no need for a max size. But this would cause other probs:
- You can courier unpackaged ships but you can't put unpackaged ships into a freighter. Courier is only way.
- You can courier small/different cans but they can't be put into a freighter otherwise.
- Collateral size is not a barrier to couriering. The reason jobs don't get done is that they don't pay enough.
- There should be a bonus option for packages delivered within a specified time frame. Many people would be willing to pay more if they could guarantee that a job would be delivered quickly.
Oh and there's one major bugbear I have with the current system. I have several characters that do the couriering and often one character will take a package part of the way and then contract the package to another character to complete it. But if there's a can or a damaged item in the courier, I'm not allowed to make an exchange contract with it! The only way I can pass it on is through direct exchange! I've even rented an office in obscure stations just so that I can transfer one package to another char! 
Ok, from the courier side, those are the only issues that I can think of offhand. The current system could definitely do with improvement, that's for sure, but I don't like the standing/hacking/unopenable etc. ideas, they're really not necessary.
Kitchie
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