Local Express Delivery

With the speed and ease of ecommerce, consumers are receiving their products much quicker with greater choices. While there is an old industry that exists that naturally would seen be introduced to the digital age and join the ecommerce revolution. That’s the same day delivery business and ecommerce.

Recently, Amazon announced that they will offer a same day delivery service in eight U.S. cities. This service is what they are calling Local Express Delivery. They expect to expand their market. There are already companies that offer this service for roughly the same prices that Amazon is charging. These are courier service companies. The U.S. courier service market consists of over 11,000 courier companies nationally, ranging into the millions of dollars in size.

There are several thousand contract drivers who provide this service to courier companies. These drivers are simply any U.S. citizen with a vehicle. They receive commission, usually in the form of a percentage, such as 60%, of the delivery charge.

More frequently, people are using the Internet to place their same day delivery job. They will visit the website of the courier company and place the details of the job. The order is then sent to a courier on his average mobile device, where he marks the job as ‘picked up’. Some systems allow for GPS tracking of the package. This process is completed through delivery where the sender is automatically notified.

This is very effective with the use of special courier software, typical mobile devices and a dispatcher who is very effective. There are other companies that have coordinated several hundred of these couriers to offer a National Same Day Delivery Service. They offer a courier service blog to learn more and several articles on same day delivery.

It is possible now to place an order on the computer and have your product arrive to you in a couple of hours from a manufacture in another state, for almost any product now. The business and shopping process and experience as we know it is changing.