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If you’re running a business that ships items to consumers, your priority has likely been getting orders out of your warehouse and moving towards consumers as quickly and efficiently as possible. But focusing on speedy order processing could lead to you forgetting about the most critical step in accomplishing direct-to-consumer fulfillment: the final mile.<\/p>\n
Whether shipping is something you handle yourself or a process you manage alongside a 3PL WMS<\/a>, the shipping portion of your operation doesn’t technically end when you place your products in the hands of a mail service.<\/p>\n Your product may move from one post office (or FedEx office or UPS office, etc.) to another, then be driven by someone else to another post office closer to the final destination address. This process will continue over and over again until the product is delivered to the post office that is as close to the consumer’s location as possible . . . and even then, the process is not done.<\/p>\n So, what happens after that? Who is the last to holder of your items before your consumer? The answer is simple: a last-mile carrier.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contents<\/p>\n As you can probably guess from the name, a last-mile carrier is the person or service who finishes out the last leg of a package journey. This carrier takes the items shipped from the nearest shipping hub to its final destination . . . and it does so as efficiently and thriftily as possible.<\/p>\n Put another way, last-mile carriers are the people or services that transport packages the final distance. Some popular examples are UPS, USPS, DHL, FedEx, and other regional carriers.<\/p>\n When the term last-mile carrier or last-mile delivery is used, it\u2019s usually referring to how a package gets from a fulfillment center to the buyer who bought it. Most last-mile carriers (see aforementioned list) will have multiple vans, cars, trucks, etc. to get the product to the buyer as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n\n
What Is A Last-Mile Carrier?<\/h2>\n