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LOCAL COURIER VS. TRUCKING COMPANIES
Most individual traders and small businesses are frequent users of local couriers to deliver goods. This is simply
because they have large local presence, knowledge and low competitive prices. Indeed many local couriers are
benefitting from the crowdsourcing phenomenon whereby they are sub-contracting deliveries via the gig economy
to freelancers or private individuals on their daily commute.This focus on local delivery means that couriers are
cost effective and highly efficient for what is called last-mile deliveries. This term is used to describe the final stage
of the delivery to the recipient’s door, which is typically fraught with problems and very time consuming and why
companies such as Amazon and others are actively testing drones and robotic autonomous vehicles to ease the
burden. However that is the area where local couriers presently excel. So for local deliveries most businesses will
contract the services of a local courier for delivering goods in the shortest time, which are under a certain size and
weight.