Do all parcels go through the couriers hub?

Question

This is stupid but, say your door number was 3 and you wanted to send a parcel to someone else on your street say their number was 16, and you arranged a courier to pick it up do you think the courier would drive up and drop it off or would they have to bring it back to the depot?.

Answer 1

If you are referring to a company like UPS or Fed Ex, it would go to the local terminal and probably from there to a sorting facility & back to the local terminal to be delivered another day.  A package going across town, may go many hundreds of miles on the way there.

Answer 2

For an intown delivery like you describe:  A true courier will pick the package up from you and deliver it to the recipient.  Then they will pick up another package and deliver it to that recipient.  In some cases, a courier may pick up multiple packages and deliver them if they involved a cross-town drive and he knew about them beforehand.

The guys who run packages by bicycle in big cities are couriers.  Their dispatcher tells them where to pick up, where to drop off, then once they're done, they get another assignment.  It'd be rather expensive to have a courier run your package down a few doors, but they'll do it for you!

A small package carrier like UPS or Fedex Ground/Home would take it back to the hub, for delivery on the next day's outbound truck.  Primarily it's for efficiency.  UPS and Fedex deliver during the day, then at the end, they collect packages.  Fewer than 5% of packages even remain in the same city, so sorting and routing occurs for all packages.

Also, just because it's down the street doesn't mean it's on the same route.  If it was on the other side of an inersection, it could be on another driver's route.  A UPS driver who goes off his route will get reprimanded, and UPS tracks their trucks every minute of the day.

Answer 3

Any item collected by a carrier will go back to the local depot, then on to a central or regional hub.  It is then sent to whichever local depot needs to deliver it.  Even if it's the same one that sent it out!

For example, the central hub for UPS was in Germany - anything you sent with them went out to Germany first, then back into the U.K....

Answer 4

I remember reading somewhere that every FedEx parcel in the country is routed through Memphis.

Answer 5

They would have to take it back to the depot. Same as if you sent a letter to someone on your street, the carrier has to take it back to the office and it has to go through all the steps of being processed and then sent back and delivered.

Answer 6

dont be  a lazy daisy, take it yourself!

oh and yeah i think they all have to go back to depot, maybe for secruity reasons.............

Answer 7

now there are messenger services that would do a direct deliver from your place to your destination -door to door

Answer 8

They have to go to the hub - crazy huh?