How to streamline getting goods from A to B on Art Mine...?

One of challenges with Art Mine will be streamlining the shipping process.  The system won't work if it is prohibitively expensive, inconvenient or difficult to navigate.  For this reason I think I need to go with a courier service so the people sending the goods are not required to go to the post office.  All they have to do is put it in a box or some sort of package, address a label and leave it at the door for a delivery guy to collect and deal with.I was just having a look at the recycling and upcycling service  TerraCycle to see how they go about getting the waste from one point to another.  They say "When your waste is ready to be sent in, you can download a shipping label from your TerraCycle account" this sounds super easy.  So I guess it is now a matter of partnering with a courier service that would be interesting in doing a flat rate to Sydney metropolitan area.  A flat rate would make things super simple for the users, and printing out a label from your computer would also save a lot of hassle.Clipper Parcels is a company I know of that provide a simple same day Sydney service.  They are a smaller company that may be interested in partnering to establish a discount rate.Tu Share uses a system of postage stamps to deal with couriering goods.  The advantage of working like this is that the stamps are like tokens that can be earnt by doing things like "sharing" on social media sites, rather than simply paying money for them.  If using money alone it would cost $10 per shipment of  up to 25kg in one box (The requirement of TuShare is that it can be carried by one person in one box). Apparently no one needs to exchange addresses either, if they are using the courier service as it is all worked out by them.Perhaps I need to contact James Bradfield Moody (TuShare’s CEO; a Sydney-based entrepreneur and futurist. He was a judge on the ABC’s New Inventors TV show from 2004 to 2011 and is an expert on the interface between sustainability and innovation and co-author of the bestselling book The Sixth Wave: How to succeed in a resource-limited world. He was Executive Director, Development at the CSIRO and an Australian National Commissioner for UNESCO, and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader) and pick his brains on where to go to next.  After all sustainability is our common goal and with my focus on creativity rather than household goods I don't feel like I am imposing on his turf too much.  

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