The State - News from April 27, 1987

Three enterprising college students have started a contraceptive delivery service, promising condoms at your doorstep within 15 minutes of a request. “It’s to make a little money, but it’s also to help people,” said Matthew Harrison, 19, a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley. “It will help stop pregnancies and disease.” Harrison, David Thompson, 18, and Edwin Ishoo, 22, founded the Protectel Co. The couriers plan to serve mostly students who live in campus dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses and nearby apartments. “We’re discreet,” Thompson said. “We don’t have signs or anything saying we’re a condom delivery service.”