Can you hire someone to do this type of small task ?

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I want to order a cake from a bakery which doesn’t do delivery. It’s a 5 hr drive from me.

Im thinking I could just order the cake for collection and pay someone to collect and then post it to me. Where would you be able to hire someone to do that? I thought Facebook but then you have to trust if you pay them first they won’t run off with your money, or they have to trust you’ll pay them once they’ve done it

Any ideas?

Unless it's transported very very carefully it'll get to you in bits.

Ummmm what kind of cake?

How exceptional are the cakes from this bakery 5 hours away from you that you are considering paying someone to collect and post it to you, or pay a taxi driver to pick it up an ferry it to you?

And what are it's chances of surviving being posted /ferried in a taxi?

What kind of cake can a) only be sourced from a bakery hours away and b) would survive posting?

Blimey, what's so special about this bakery? What's the cake? Most wouldn't survive being "posted"?

Actually, it's made me think of the parkin that used to come from a bakery near my DGM's maybe something like that rather than a celebration cake?

It will make the cake very expensive, but I suppose if there's a special reason, a courier would be your best bet?

I can't imagine anyone from your area would do this
If I desperately wanted that cake, I would get a hotel in the town and stay over.. but even then it would be an expensive cake!
Find a local bakery

I couriered Christmas cakes during lockdown, I think I used UPS. I packed them and they picked them up from my house and they were delivered to the other end of the country in less than 24 hours, still in one piece. It was a lot more reasonably priced than I expected. Christmas cake is pretty easy going though, not so sure if a decorated sponge would do as well

Have you spoken to the bakery and confirmed they won't post it exceptionally if you pay all costs or you're just going on what their website says?

Could be worth checking if not. I'm assuming it's something that would survive the post like parkin as a PP says!

Depending on the value/what you want it for you could confirm you're happy to take the risk of it turning up a bit bashed and won't leave a bad review if this happens.

Task rabbit or fivr?

Taskrabbit?

TBF the OP hasn't said what sort of cake it is and we're probably assuming that they won't deliver because it won't survive delivery.

It might be 'sturdy cake' like brownies or fruit cake and it could be that they just don't do deliveries.

Must be pretty special cake for the OP to be looking 5 hours away and not just buying cake available locally.

Sort of thing I’d do if someone paid me tbh 😂

Could you find someone that is doing the journey anyway and twist their arm/pay them to bring it with them?