Before diving into the heart of the matter, let's start by defining the scope of today's content by defining what is meant by delivery. Delivery is simply the act of transporting goods and ensuring their delivery to their destination. Most delivered goods transit through a transportation network, whether by land, air, or sea, and they may pass through vehicles specialized in transporting objects (such as semi-trucks on land or container ships at sea). It should be noted that certain specific goods can be delivered through their own networks, such as pipelines for liquids (particularly oil), the power grid for electricity, or electronic exchange networks like the internet. We will only briefly discuss this type of delivery, as it concerns very few individuals in their daily lives.
In general, the overall process of delivering goods is known as distribution. The study of specific processes for delivering or arranging goods and people is called logistics. Companies that specialize in transit between the location where goods are produced (such as a factory) generally work with wholesalers, while those who deliver goods from the point of sale to the consumer provide a delivery service. Postal services, meanwhile, transit commercial goods as well as private ones.
The majority of consumer goods are transported from their place of production (whether that be a farm or factory) to one or several storage locations to be delivered (often warehouses), and then to a point of sale (generally referred to as retail shops), where consumers purchase the goods and transport them to the place of consumption themselves.
