Postmates wants you to give the gift of expensive delivery this holiday season
What's the perfect last-minute gift? Delivery.
At least Postmates thinks so. The food-and-other-stuff delivery startup is introducing e-gift cards on Thursday.
The email-only gift cards are available at postmates.com/gift in increments of $25, $50, $100 or $200. You don't need to have a Postmates account to buy a gift card for someone who does.
The gift cards can be used for anything sold on Postmates, whether from a verified Postmates Plus merchant or a restaurant on the higher end of the delivery fee scale.
Delivery for merchants not verified by Postmates can get expensive — one reason to give a gift card to someone who's reluctant to order on their own.
"Whether it’s coffee, a burrito, or even an American Apparel T-shirt, these gift cards can be used for anything, so sky's the limit," the company wrote in a blog post.
Postmates has big ambitions despite reports of trouble within the company. The startup raised a whopping $140 million in October.
Postmates says gift cards have been the most-requested feature from users. Grubhub and Seamless started selling gift cards in October.
So order a Postmates gift card for the holidays, and blow it all on one order with a $16 delivery fee from a place across town.
Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable. Before joining Mashable, she covered business and metro news at the Houston Chronicle.
