When ordering a product to be shipped to your home, the traditional process has involved the order being sent to a central hub where it would be routed to your home through various delivery companies or the United States Postal Service. Deliveries would be routed according to efficiency for the delivery company, so the shipper may need to wait until a certain amount of packages amassed to have enough deliveries going to a particular area to fill a load.

This resulted in longer wait times for customers, but greater efficiency for shippers and delivery companies. As the Internet has changed the way people buy products, it has also changed how shoppers expect to receive their purchases. These days, online shoppers expect to be able to order items quickly and have them delivered quickly as well. This is where last mile logistics come into play.

Handling the Hand-Off

Last-mile delivery companies are delivery companies that handle the actual hand-off of packages. These companies usually deliver packages using small vehicles, as opposed to the large delivery trucks used to haul cargo or deliver large loads of packages. Last mile logistics companies often use standard cargo vans or even commuter vehicles to handle deliveries to customers.

The Advantages of Last Mile Delivery

The advantage of last-mile delivery for logistics companies is that items can get to customers faster. Because companies don’t need to wait until a full load is ready to go to a particular area, shippers can send out smaller loads or even individual packages.

For consumers, last-mile delivery means that items arrive faster and can even be delivered on the same day in some instances. Many retailers are moving toward a buy-online-deliver-from-store model as well that relies on some of the same basic principles of last-mile delivery. Using this model, items are ordered online and sent out directly from a store’s physical inventory to a shopper’s home. Last-mile delivery provides this same benefit in the sense that shippers can have smaller deliveries sent out faster, allowing shoppers to enjoy shorter delivery times.

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Jeson Clarke is providing info about single platform for your hotshot, scheduled, daily route, and freight deliveries. You can find his thoughts at last mile logistics blog.