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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

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The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. This allows faster delivery, as delivery stations go from handling 60,000 packages a day to over 110,000 during the holiday season. billion packages in the U.S.,

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C. Wing is a part of Google parent company, Alphabet, that offers automated delivery drones to transport smaller packages from businesses to homes. An estimated 11.5 Franklin St., through the DoorDash app.

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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

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In this situation, an autonomous vehicle brings a package to a customer’s house, whereupon the customer enters a code and retrieves the package from a cargo hold. Amazon Scout has already performed well in its tests in California and Washington. Autonomous technology has improved, and the interest is growing.

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Food Security and National Security

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However, José Andrés , a chef, philanthropist, and founder of the new Global Food Institute at George Washington University, believes we need to take a broader view and consider how global food insecurity can affect national security. And then it moves through this whole chain of events, of being processed and packaged and stored.

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Peak Shipping Season: A Review of Trends from the 2018 Holiday Peak Season

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percent, but it was still insufficient to meet demand with many consumers not receiving packages on-time. As few as 44 percent of retailers offer free returns shipping, notes the Washington Post, but the day with the highest returns rates arrived in mid-December. million returns, reports the Washington Post. Download Here.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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For routes previously served by sedans, SUVs and minivans can deliver more than double the number of packages while the company’s “high-capacity vans” are able to service nearly five times as many packages, Mulligan said. They include Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.

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A New Approach to Small Parcel with Tyler Abderholden

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Merchants simply purchase a label and their package can be picked up from their front door. The company was founded in Australia in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia; Seattle, Washington; and Toronto, Canada. You can choose to have your packages picked up from your front door or drop them off at a nearby location.