The credit cards below offer up to 5% cash back on specific categories that rotate each quarter. It takes a little memory of which card to use, but it can add up to hundreds of dollars in additional rewards per year without changing your spending habits. New cardmembers may also get an upfront sign-up bonus in addition to the 5% cash back each quarter.
From January 1st through March 31st, you can earn 5% cash back on up to $1,500 spent in the following categories:
Gas Stations
Internet, Cable & Phone Services. Internet, cable, satellite television and radio, cellular, wireless data, and landline services will qualify.
Select Streaming Services. The full list is Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, Sling, Vudu, Fubo TV, Apple Music, SiriusXM, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube TV, and ESPN+.
Enroll each quarter at ChaseBonus.com. As long as you activate by the end of the quarter the rewards are retroactive. All other purchases earn 1% back, with no tiers or expiration of rewards.
Chase Freedom card is offering $200 bonus cash back if you sign up and make $500 in purchases in your first three months. No annual fee.
From January 1st through March 31st, you can earn 5% cash back on up to $1,500 spent in the following categories:
Grocery Stores
Walgreens
CVS
Enroll after logging into your online account (look on the right-hand side). 5% rewards won’t apply until after you activate your rewards, so it is best to activate now before you forget. No annual fee.
New cardmember bonus details. If you are a new applicant and sign up via my Discover Card referral link, you will get a $50 Cashback Bonus after your first purchase within 3 months of being approved. You will also get Cashback Match for an entire year – a dollar-for-dollar match of all the cash back you’ve earned at the end of your first year, automatically.
During those 12 months, your $50 Cashback Bonus becomes $100, your 5% cash back rewards becomes 10% cash back, and your 1% cash back rewards become 2% cash back. You can verify this on the application by clicking on “See rates, rewards and other info” and searching for “cashback match” and “statement credit offer”:
Cashback Match: No purchase minimums. After the first 12 consecutive billing periods that your new account is open, we will match all of the cash back rewards you’ve earned and apply them to your account in the following one or two billing periods. If your account is closed or no longer in the cash back reward program at the time we calculate your potential award, your cash back will not be matched. You’ve earned cash back rewards when they have posted to your account by the end of the 12th consecutive billing period. This promotional offer may not be offered in the future. This exclusive offer is available only to new cardmembers.
TERMS OF STATEMENT CREDIT OFFER: Get a $50 Statement Credit after you make your first purchase within 3 months of being approved. Promotional award will be applied within 8 weeks. The promotional award is in addition to the Cashback Bonus earned on all purchases.
Our entire culture has changed In the era of social distancing. Food delivery and Amazon with everything and anything (even alcoholic drinks) being delivered to the door has taken off like internet banking in the early 2000s.
If you are looking for an idea for a gift to give to your loved ones or to a friend, food is always the fastest way to the heart. Food is central in the lives of many of us, a source of great little joys and often a remedy for anxiety and harassment.
You are probably one of the 19 million Doordash users by now and you already enjoy ordering your favorite food and getting it delivered to your doorstep by a Dasher. You may wonder if you can order for someone else and how it is possible without sending to the wrong address and making sure they know you sent it for them and not wondering about the random order arriving at their door.
DoorDash Gifting Guide
In times like these home cooking is not possible, whether it’s a family member, a best friend, a sick friend or a coworker, the good news is that you can send a meal or a gift using Doordash even if the person is in another state. The delivery app allows you to send holiday gifts (in a gift box) right to their door, or you can have your order ready and waiting at the nearby shop with the pickup option.
In this guide you will learn everything you have to know about DoorDash food gift delivery feature.
How To Ship Food to someone else
To make our guide complete, we want to start by giving you all the information and options you can choose to mail food.
First of all, shipping alcohol domestically or internationally is really complicated due to shipping and delivery laws which dictate how alcohol can be moved across the country. If you want to send alcohol, we suggest you consult our guide to the best alcohol delivery services .
Instead, shipping food is really easy.
Long distance food delivery services like UPS allows you to send food in the mail.
Here is a list of food you can mail:
Fruit
Baked goods
Meat
Shipping perishable foods, prepared meals and even shipping frozen food can be done using delivery services.
However, it requires respecting a few basic rules to ensure that the food arrives safely while still being edible.
Whatever the nature of the food you wish to ship, it is essential to provide packaging suitable for the transport of food products such as:
Bubble wrap
Ice packs
Plastic wraps
Can You Order DoorDash for Someone Else?
Can you order Doordash for someone else?
Here you can learn how to use the Doordash gift feature to send food to a friend, family member.
DoorDash Gift Delivery Feature When you send perishable items using a carrier is always at your own risk. As we said you should take particular caution and care on the package.
In November 2020 DoorDash and Caviar introduced a new gifting feature allowing users to have delicious cooking meals, gift baskets and chocolates and more delivered to friends or family members’ houses in all the +3000 cities where Doordash is located.
With the San Francisco headquartered company, you can find the best food gifts for men or women. You can choose from one of the 300,000+ restaurants and stores partners available on the DoorDash app or the Caviar app.
The good news is that if you’re on DoorDash, and you happen across a perfect gift for someone, and you want to order it for their birthday but the occasion is months in the future, you can schedule a gift delivery on a DoorDash order for delivery in the future.
If you need food gift ideas, here are some example of what can been sent via the app:
Birthday cake
Ice cream (It is the perfect get well soon present.)
Gourmet food gifts
Last-minute Christmas gifts (we sent someone a box of oranges)
Birthday treats
Additionally the app gives you the opportunity to add to your food gift a personalized digitally-animated card.
You can find cards for a variety of occasions including:
Birthdays
Congratulations
Happy holidays
‘Thinking of you’
If you’re scrambling for a last minute gift, Doordash recently launced convenience stores that deliver in less than 30 minutes.
Are There Shipping Costs Or Delivery Fees On Gift Delivery Orders Whether you want to order a meal delivery to a sick friend, send meals to a friend or a gourmet gift basket for your mom, you will order from local restaurants and shops. This means that you will pay the normal DoorDash fees and service fees. So no. There are no additional charges on gift delivery orders and if you have a Pass subscription, you will have all the advantages of the membership.
How To Send Food To Someone With DoorDash (4 Steps)
If you want to find out how to get something delivered secretly, you should know that you can send an anonymous gift from DoorDash. In this case the only information that appears on the label is the recipient’s name and address.
The recipient will not know the identity of the mystery gift-sender.
If you want them to be aware that you sent the gift, you must include a gift sender.
If you prefer, once you place your order, you can send and share the gift tracking link with the recipient.
If you already know how to order on Doordash this should be quite similar.
Basically, to send a meal as a gift with Doordash you only need:
The gift recipient’s name (the name of the person who receive the gift)
The recipient’s phone number: Providing the recipient phone number is really important because in case the Dasher has trouble delivering the gift, they can contact the recipient.
The correct address of the recipient
A DoorDash account
Follow our step by step tutorial and find the right way to share Doordash with a friend.
Enter the recipient’s delivery address Select A nearby restaurant Add menu Items a the cart At checkout tap on send as a gift
As for very DoorDash order, you will be able to choose a contactless delivery and you will be able to add to your order special instructions such as:
Ring the bell after drop off
Call upon arrival
Leave next to the porch
💡 Pro Tip: With Doordash you can send an anonymous gift or if you prefer, once you place your order, you can send and share the gift tracking link with the recipient.
If you want to send a dinner to a friend but you are not sure what are their favorite dish, here are other gift delivery ideas for you:
Send a DoorDash gift card
Send an Uber Eats gift card
Frequently Asked Questions
How To Send Food To Someone In Another State
If you like to cook, to ship cooked food to another state you can use a shipping carrier. Most of them offer a full range of express services including same day, overnight, and next day shipping. Keep in mind that some food items have a limited shelf life. The latter will then recommend that you opt for the option of express delivery, dedicated transport to avoid any risk of damage.
Keep in mind that generally the express shipping rates are really high.
How To Change Address On Doordash You can edit, add, or delete addresses from the DoorDash app or website. However, if you already placed an order, the only way to change or update the address or other instructions, you have to contact the DoorDash support either by chat or phone.
Can I Share My DoorDash Account? Doordash doesn’t have a system of “Family account” like some ridesharing companies. Technically you can share your email address associated with your account and the DoorDash password with a friend or family member.
If you have not heard of AirBnB or not tried it yet the service is basically staying at a stranger’s house instead of a hotel. Sounds strange at first but you can find really cool unique places to stay and most of the people who do it are totally legit, clean, and respectable. Plus it’s the sharing economy instead of a basic hotel that is in a touristy area. There are 100s of thousands of available places from apartments and houses to castles, tree houses and boats in more than 34,000 cities boasting 550,000 rooms globally.
Here’s $40 in AirBnB Travel credits if anyone wants to give it a try for the first time and let me know what you think of AirBnB in the comments. Plus Earn up to $100 for everyone you invite. (more…)
Mike’s Hard Lemonade is offering a rebate of up to $14.99 to offset the full purchase price of a 12-pack. Offer can be done twice.
Valid in the following states: AK,AZ,DC,DE,FL,GA,ID,KS,KY,MA,MS,MT,NE,ND,NV,NM,OK,OR,RI,SC,SD,WI,WY. Other states are showing just 50% off.
There’s an Ibotta coupon for $5 back so you should be able to turn this into a $5 moneymaker + free drinks. There also might be a $3 coupon from Safeway/Albertson’s Just4U to make it a $8 moneymaker.
Take a Picture of Your Receipt. Make sure your picture includes the name of the retailer, the state, and the product that you have purchased.
Purchase must occur between 8/30/2021 – 9/30/2021. Receipt must be submitted by 9/30/2021. Limit 2 rebates per household. Offer expires 9/30/2021, or until redemption claims reach a total of [$200,000] (whichever comes first).
Offer amount varies by state. Full Purch. Price (max [$14.99]): AK, AZ, DC, DE, FL, GA, ID, KS, KY, MA, MS, MT, NE, ND, NV, NM, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, WI, WY. 50% Purch. Price: CA, CO, CT, IA, IL, ME, MD, MI, MN, NH, NJ, OH, VT, VA, & WA. You are responsible for sales tax. Void where restricted, or prohibited by law.
This rebate may not be combined with any other offer. Proof of purchase must accompany rebate submission. Receipt photo must include retailer name, date & time of purchase, product name or item code for required purchase item. Rebate payment sent via Venmo. Please 48 hours for receipt of rebate. If you do not have a Venmo account, you will receive an email notification from Venmo with instructions to create a Venmo account and must accept the payment via Venmo within 30 days or rebate funds will be forfeited.
Postmates has been an incredible freebie generating app since its debut. The on-demand app that delivers food, coffee, and alcohol has also brought us many free food offers which are better than a free sample people chase around the web. These are legit freebies such as Potbelly sandwiches, Free Pizza Slices, Free Smoothies On-Demand, Free Lattes at Starbucks and so on.
Update: Now that UberEats has bought Postmates we recommend DoorDash.
To start using Postmates we can also save you $100 in delivery fees so you can start out with several free deliveries. Once you sign-into the app and enter the promo code 478n you should be able to see if there are any freebies available that day for your area. Last week we had Free Thai On-Demand and Free Chili’s Burgers On-Demand which was fantastic! The $100 in credits offer is limited and may go back down to $10 soon.
Here is how to get your $100 Free Credit on Postmates: 1. Download the app or head over to Postmates.com to sign up. 2. Select your location then and add any free offers to your cart or the meal that you wish to have delivered or good from any local business. Add them to your cart, and create an account. Use this promo code 478n and you should get $100 in credits to cover the delivery fee.
Postmates Party means Free Delivery on each order (but watch the service fees) 🥳
You won’t pay delivery fees on “Party” orders, no matter the size of the order. Joining the Party means you’ll never pay blitz pricing at peak times either. You just sign-in to your Postmates app and tap the “Party” tab which basically means someone else is ordering delivery from that same restaurant and there will be “no delivery charge.”
If this sounds familiar it’s because UberEats does this same thing where you can get a free delivery by ordering when someone else does within a certain time frame.
As soon as UberEats copied off of the outrageous service fees of Postmates and other carriers it didn’t take Postmates long to copy something of UberEats. Now that all the delivery services are pretty much even on service fees that are hidden until you make your order they are all saying you will get FREE delivery on restaurants that others are buying food from at the time.
Get your FREE crunchwrap from Taco Bell. 🌮🔔 Get a FREE crunchwrapfrom Taco Bell this weekend before this offer expires. When the deal is as hot as the sauce, you don’t want to miss out. 1. Download the app or head over to Postmates.com to sign up. 2. Select your location then and add any free offers to your cart or the meal that you wish to have delivered or good from any local business. Add them to your cart, and create an account. Use this promo code 478n and you should get $101 in credits to cover the delivery fee.
Check For Free Offers: To get a FREE Starbucks Drink Delivered select your city, and look for the “Free Starbucks On Demand” box (or other free promotions for your area). You should have enough delivery credit to get the free drink delivered with free delivery once you use the promo code above. Just last week they were giving away Katy Perry albums!
Earn Rewards Postmates is currently rolling out a new rewards program which will make it more competitive compared to Grubhub and Door You will receive an email that states “You’ve been selected to try Postmates Rewards. It’s our brand new, invite-only loyalty program. Best of all, it’s free! To sign up, just open your iOS or Android app. Each purchase you make after that will count towards your rewards (it could be free delivery, it could be a boat—the sky’s the limit).” You’ll also get a stamp card to track your progress in-app! We are excited they have added this new program.
Alcohol To Your Door – Free! In some cities you can order just one margarita to your door if you wish. Texas was one of the states that recently got added to the beer delivery and they are delivering free throughout most of July. You may check to see if your town’s Postmates app is offering this freebie as well. All you need to do is add something to your cart now, and they’ll reward you with 100% off delivery fees on all your DRINKS orders through July 27, 2017. They added a Drinks tab to browse through categories by selecting from the drop down menu at the top of the screen.
Postmates Vs. Grubhub Another one of our most recommended websites to order food online is GrubHub. You can score $12 off including fees and food right now! Postmates has a promotional link to get $10 off but only includes service fees. Postmates is growing to be the biggest foodie app and delivery service so it’s definitely a good download.
