The founders of a new startup called Carry think the strangers-trusting-strangers model can be applied to package delivery. With their new platform, anyone looking to ship a package can upload a description of their item and a person with free time on their hands can act as a makeshift messenger.

On the other side, travelers hoping to reduce the cost of their dream vacation could make easy cash by simply carrying an package that a shipper needs to get to Hawaii faster and cheaper than FedEx or UPS could offer.

But might that sound like a potential courier service for unsavory — even criminal — types? Not so, says Carry co-founder Ilya Rehkter.

"This is an online, peer-to-peer marketplace for people who want to ship things with travelers who can carry the packages for them," Rehkter told TheBlaze. "We do a lot of business shipping and we thought of starting carry to give people a way to travel and make some money, but also to get packages delivered with more transparency."

So where did they get the idea?