Shyp's Delivery Service Goes Live In Los Angeles, With A Few Tweaks

Good news: L.A. has lots of people who want to ship stuff. Bad news: The traffic there is even worse than you imagine.

The whole point of delivery startup Shyp is to replace the hassles of shipping—the rummaging around for packaging materials, the boxing items up, the driving, parking, and waiting in line—with a smartphone app. Snap a photo of the item you need to ship with your phone's camera, and the phone summons a Shyp "Hero" to take away your stuff. The company then packs it at one of its warehouses and gets it on its way via a carrier that can deliver it at a reasonable price.

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