Delivery companies can’t bundle multiple orders into a single delivery so send out vans less full.
In practice, a lot of deliveries fail the first time so delivery vans have to do second or third runs or customers have to drive to out-of-town warehouses to pick up the delivery. Plus our demand for next day deliveries almost triples the footprint of online deliveries, according to the MIT study. Delivery companies can’t bundle multiple orders into a single delivery so send out vans less full. To minimise the ‘last mile’ issues its good to avoid the speedy delivery options.