New Postmates Algorithm Saves You Money on Delivery
Photo Caption: Postmates delivers to nearly 3,000 cities nationally.
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The new development differentiates Postmates among its stiff competition — not a bad look for a company that just filed for an IPO.
Postmates launched a new product on its app this week called "Postmates Party," a group ordering functionality that offers users free delivery in exchange for pooling their nearby food orders.
A new algorithm groups nearby orders from the same restaurant and assigns them to be collected by one courier, increasing efficiency in dense urban populations where customers are already placing orders to the same restaurants at similar times. Users are given a five minute window t
