Outsourcing: Is it necessary to use to you personally?

My friend, Arthur Orudzhaliev, touched in his blog interesting topic of outsourcing different services.

Note: Prices are relevant for Kiev, Muscovites are multiplied by a factor :)

Just today, for example, I need to take one thing to Lukyanovka. I work at home, at the Leningrad area. Other businesses in the city. Accordingly, for the sake of it would have to spend an hour and a half on a normal delivery.
Affairs I now have enough, why break this unproductive day thing? In general, in Google has found the first available delivery service, which actually will be engaged in the business, while I own.

Worth delivery service UAH 40 ($ 5). This is assuming that I ordered after one o'clock. If in the morning - that in general 30 ($ 3.8). And if yesterday - still cheaper than UAH 25 ($ 3.16). Only gasoline I would take 20 hryvnia. But the main thing - time.

And do not think that outsource in a modern city can only service. For example, buying a pizza stands in Kiev $ 10-12 dollars with delivery of a gigantic 1.6 kg. Cook delicious succeed, but if you hurry, you do it yourself will cost you hours and hours of store preparation + cost of food and energy (gas) to the pastries.

And yet, one can in the city hire a personal assistant - it is worth no more than $ 250-300 / mo. It can for you to go shopping, go to the bank on the power of attorney to do a complex search on the internet, collect data, presentation or read articles, to produce a set of texts, drive the child to kindergarten, etc. On a routine takes a lot time.

There is also an opinion that the city is much more convenient to use a taxi than to have your own car. If you need 1-2 a day somewhere to go by car (or can be on the shuttle bus to the subway send a personal assistant ...) and parking, inspections, cleaning, tire, gas stations, traffic jams and traffic police, etc. this is not for you, give the uncomplicated lesson torsion donut the taxi driver. In my case, a taxi costs in the monthly use by 40-50% cheaper than the maintenance and operation of its own car in Kiev.

By the way, the theme of global outsourcing activities vashy evangeliruetsya Timothy Ferris in his book "The 4-Hour Workweek."

Do you know where you can still use outsourcing in the modern city of the entrepreneur or a freelancer?