Delivering Baggage

StartupJournal: This week, thousands of kids will be returning home from summer camp — without suitcases, duffel bags, tennis rackets, or even their dirty clothes.
Much of the baggage will be delivered back to their homes by small firms that have made a business of transporting campers’ bags to and from the camps.
Typical is Camp Trucking, based in Denver. Employing an army of college students on summer break, the firm picks up baggage at the homes of campers and delivers it to camp just before a session begins. It charges a flat rate, with no restrictions on size or for bulky athletic equipment and duffel bags that sometimes weigh more than 100 pounds. At the end of the session, bags are returned — with some parents even arranging drop-offs at laundries and dry cleaners along the way.
“We really are service companies that happen to be trucking companies,” says Camp Trucking’s 39-year-old owner, Stuart Seller.
The service is useful to the camps, too. They receive bags for a session all at once, a few days before the kids arrive, allowing the camp staff to focus on getting kids settled in, rather then keeping track of arriving luggage. The services often deliver the bags directly to a bunkhouse and the bunk assigned each camper.
To Camp and Back — Baggage Is the Business [StartupJournal]