Jonathan helps to launch new venture, 'SendSocial.com'

SendSocial.com, the world’s 1st address-less parcel delivery service, has launched in the UK. SendSocial.com provides the public with the ability to send parcels without an address to anyone with either a Twitter account or e-mail address starting from £3.99, which includes both collection and delivery.

SendSocial.com is the latest creation by noted Entrepreneur Ben Way, who is best known for his appearance on Channel 4’s “Secret Millionaire”. Ben posted the idea of address-less delivery on his blog and selected 8 budding entrepreneurs who engaged with him through Twitter. Within hours of assembling the management team they began working on the concept.

Thanks to online applications, Google Docs, Skype and other communication and social media tools the team were able to ignore their geographic displacement. The team consists of Ben Way (29, Florida), Glen Richardson (27, Cumbria), Antony Stevenson (24, Derby), our very own Jonathan Grubin (18, Newcastle), Marc Falk (21, Denmark), Simon Campbell (31, London), Tom Beckenham (35, London) and James Cranwell-Ward (24, London).

Senders make a request to their recipient via SendSocial.com and a Twitter message or e-mail is sent on their behalf. Once the recipient accepts the request, they can choose where they would like the parcel to be sent; the sender never sees the recipient’s address.

The sender is then provided with an address-less label and the parcel is collected the next day. Conveniently, the parcel can be stored in a safe place in case the sender isn’t around.

myHermes, SendSocial.com’s courier partners, scan the barcode on SendSocial.com’s unique address-less label, and the parcel is then automatically routed to the recipient within 3-to-5 working days.

Ben Way, Co-Founder of SendSocial.com, shares his enthusiasm for the launch of SendSocial.com: “I’m truly excited about the launch of SendSocial.com. Like most people in this fast-paced world I have lost track of the addresses of people I need to send things to and could not believe that there was not a better solution to the old-fashioned address. I predict that with a little help from SendSocial.com, in another few years nobody will have to use a physical address to send anything again. Sending things to friends and family has often been inconvenient, as well, and SendSocial.com takes the pain out of sending.”

Hundreds of ordinary Twitter users were given shares in SendSocial.com for offering feedback when Ben floated the idea in March, and the management team is working hard to make them all millionaires.

The team chose to partner with myHermes, who have a 30-year trading history and are the UK’s largest courier-based home delivery network, delivering over 100 million parcels every year.

The partnership between SendSocial.com and myHermes enables consumers to send parcels to anyone they wish by simply knowing the Twitter name or e-mail address of the recipient. SendSocial.com allows users to manage their addresses and select the most convenient location for delivery to be made, such as work or home.

Commercial Director of myHermes, Jon Tobbell, comments on the partnership with SendSocial.com: “Everyone at myHermes is bursting with anticipation with the launch of SendSocial.com. We’ve been working extremely hard to accommodate address-less parcel delivery to ensure the recipient’s address is kept confidential via our new handheld terminal technology. We’re ready for volume sales, given our existing corporate client base, including Next, QVC, and other well-known companies.”

As SendSocial.com is a secure repository of addresses, SendSocial.com will soon be integrating with major online retailers to allow their users to send gifts to friends and family using just a Twitter name or e-mail address.