How does 2 day shipping or overnight shipping work?
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Large companies like Amazon have many vast warehouses across the country and can dispatch from the closest one. And when necessary, air cargo is utilized, where as longer shipping times go by truck.
Most shipping companies have a hub and spoke system, where trucks pick up from warehouses (usually located near airports for cheap land and shipping logistics) and it get taken to airport, flown to shipping company hub — FedEx is in Memphis, UPS is in Louisville, etc. From there it gets dispatched to other major airports before taken to dispatch centers and eventually loaded into trucks for delivery. While these paths used to happen daily, now due to increased volume it’s possible for it to occur multiple times a day.
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