Normally it takes bribing your mates with beer and pizza to get someone to help you out with moving apartments. That is, of course, only after you have dug up that dirty secret they told you and made you promise would never leave your lips. Blackmail is fun, we’re not ashamed to say it.

Now Uber has always been a fan of the innovative approach to paid transport, with some of their past endeavours including these below from Wired:

In the past, the app has acted as a Christmas tree delivery service, an ice cream truck hailing app, an on-demand kitten-cuddling business and, when San Francisco legalized gay marriage last summer, a full-fledged wedding planner.

On Wednesday Uber announced UberCargo, currently being tested in Hong Kong. Now you can hail a van, pack it full with your stuff and get it to Point B.

This is why we love Uber. Not content to be just a service for taking you home after a Friday night sozzling, they keep thinking up ways to make our lives easier.

That’s largely due to the fact that, with the flip of a switch, Uber can mutate into whatever type of transportation system it chooses. Its vast network of drivers and the technology that supports them are extremely flexible, and projects like UberCargo prove as much.

Let’s hope this service makes its way over to our side of the globe some time soon. Although friends of ours with dirty secrets be warned, we will still find ways to use that information to our advantage.

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