Talk:Package delivery

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Pkgx in topic heavy goods

Removed a list of companies

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I removed this:

List of Package & Small Parcel Delivery Service Providers

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- Express Same Day, Next Day, Two Day & Three Day, and Ground Delivery Services.

- According to Competition Within The United States Parcel Delivery Market, a report published by Postcom.org, American consumers will spend more than $50 billion to ship parcels, packages, and overnight letters.

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Major Carriers

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  • FedEx (Formerly Federal Express Corporation.)

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  • TNT N.V. (Includes TNT Express Worldwide Network and TNT Air Cargo.)

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  • UPS (United Parcel Service). Also called UPS, Brown.

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  • USPS (US Postal Service.) Also known as the Post Office, Postal Service.

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Regional & Specialty Carriers

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- There are many local, regional and specialty package delivery companies operating in the United States. Services range to same-day delivery within specific geographic locations.

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  • AirNet Systems, Inc. Specializes in international financial documents, organs for transplant, blood products, media and tapes for distribution, aircraft parts, security sensitive material.

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  • Astar Air Cargo Formerly DHL Airways. Air charter and freight services, freight forwarding and cargo carrier shipments for government, military and large corporations worldwide.

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  • Cavalier Logistics Specializes in global delivery of pharmaceutical, vaccine and health care products.

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  • easyQube.com Specializes in residential last mile deliveries through the use of an automated kiosk.

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  • OnTrac Operates in 7 largest Western United States: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado.

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  • ParcelPool.com Specializes in home delivery of packages and small parcels to APO-FPO addresses, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, US Territories (Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Midway Islands, etc.) Japan and Europe.

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  • qube2you.com Specializes in late night and weekend deliveries with a one-hour window. Limited to select neighborhoods in Boston and Cambridge.

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  • SpeeDee Delivery Specializes in expedited ground shipping in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconson, and parts of Illinois and Nebraska.

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Country-Specific Carriers

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- NOTE: For a list of National Postal Services, please see Mail |List of national postal services.

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  • Jetpak (Scandinavia) Jetpak Group is a Scandinavian express logistics company specializing in same day and overnight distribution to Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

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US-Centric

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This article ignores the history of package delivery in other countries, notably the country of England, which had a commercial postal delivery service several hundred years before that of the US. I would therefore encourage anyone with knowledge of package delivery in other countries to contribute (cf. Wikipedia Countering Systemic Bias Project) --Gilgongo (talk) 22:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

True, though package delivery is not quite the same as parcel post, which I presume you are referring to, though that article need expansion. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 03:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

USPS ad

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Most of the bottom part of the article looks like an advertising of USPS.. especially in reference to their tracking and "low-cost" services. There are almost no citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.3.246.53 (talk) 02:36, 31 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

heavy goods

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There is a need for discussion of heavy packaged goods via package delivery services. This is certainly not the same as bulk cargo. I have cleaned up the previous section of this subject to remove excessive commercial links. Pkgx (talk) 03:18, 24 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

I disagree there is a need for this. The article is about the delivery of packages and not about any other non-package services provided by companies that happen to do package delivery. Your addition belongs in details about the services provided by such companies or that type of service and not about an entirely different type of service. Besides which most of the addition is unsourced and if it is not suited to Cargo, according to you, than it probably belongs in a "Distribution" section, if one needs writing, of the Logistics or Distribution (marketing) articles but not here. ww2censor (talk) 10:08, 24 February 2018 (UTC)Reply
    • The lead section provides the scope of the article. It clearly states that this is home delivery of packages, including larger ones by less-than-truckload logistics providers. Heavy goods are included. I agree that this section lacks sources: I removed the commercial links from the earlier version of this section. I will look for some other references. Pkgx (talk) 13:33, 24 February 2018 (UTC)Reply