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Food verbalism platform Postmates is starting what the convergence is calling a "non-contact delivery" instrumentality designful to tidings relieve the succor of the coronavirus back its gradation workers are delivering ordered meals as well as other goods.

The move was spotted by Recode's Rani Molla as well as The Verge has conjectured it is in effect starting today. Postmates users who now ajar the app should see a notice circa the non-contact deliveries, which then prompts users to input a declivity option like "leave at the door." The convergence conjointly emailed registered users circa the new option. It is not mandatory.

Postmates implementation "non-contact deliveries." Gladsome we've found a way to get all our creature comforts during the End Times pic.twitter.com/KavCXGi0DZ

-- Rani Molla (@ranimolla) March 6, 2020

"Today, we're introducing Dropoff Options, which will harmony our customers the authoritarianism to specify how they'd like to receive deliveries," reads a new blog column from the convergence revealed Friday. "Customers can cull to nonresisting their Postmate at the door, as they have before, nonresisting curbside, or go non-contact as well as have deliveries left at the door." Postmates says you can add the non-contact verbalism option during checkout if you skipped the unextreme back headmost outlet the app today.

Postmates is far from the personally verbalism convergence to found demography increasingly serious measures to protect both public health as well as the well-being of its customers as well as contractors. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Ele.me synergistic as well as as well as foodstuff verbalism platform Meituan Dianping, both of which dominate the Chinese foodstuff verbalism market, have implemented similar non-contact verbalism options amongst the coronavirus ovule in the country, Bloomberg reports. That's involved secure bead off as well as pickup locations to disadvise putting verbalism workers as well as customers in direct ponderable contact. Both are conjointly asking verbalism workers -- mucho of which use bicycles, motorcycles, as well as scooters -- to abrasion masks, too.