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I've never been sure that Postmates has a model that can scale internationally. FWIW, China basically runs Postmates equivalents all across the board -- with low labour costs, you can get things delivered for pennies on the dollar. It feels like a regional play at best in my opinion...

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That's the general issue with so many of these personal service gig things in developed countries. There's a market for them. But a lot of people don't really have the spare cash to have a $10/hr. or so worker to do jobs for them that they could do but just don't feel like doing.

Full-time drivers and house-related help are very common in some countries. In the US, you're pretty wealthy at that point.

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