But the model of ordering ahead and picking up by car eliminates the last-mile delivery costs.

Last-mile delivery networks, whether wireline or wireless, are expensive to create and maintain.

There is nothing more powerful in the sort of last-mile delivery of information than a contact with a so-called influential."

The so-called "last-mile delivery" business of Kozmo and Urbanfetch has been rife with deal-making.

Its distribution network delivers mail to local Royal Mail sorting offices for last-mile delivery through downstream access.

The company partners with the United States Postal Service to handle last-mile delivery and first-mile pickup of packages while allowing package tracking along the way.

The big commercial rivals, TNT and UK Mail, are caught up in the strike because they use Royal Mail for the last-mile delivery.

The last-mile delivery for IPTV usually has a bandwidth restriction that only allows a small number of simultaneous TV channel streams - typically from one to three - to be delivered.

He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Starship Technologies, a company building robotic platforms for last-mile delivery, and managing partner of MTVP, a tech investment company.

Print's anachronisms, whether it is the last-mile delivery, the slaying of forests, or the sale of thick packages that most consumers use only small slices of, make change inevitable once a better answer is available.

The holiday season resulted in a strong increase in competitive package volume as customers took advantage of Postal Service Priority Mail flat rate pricing and increasingly turned to the Postal Service for last-mile delivery.

And it's reportedly building out a global delivery network that could ultimately put Amazon in complete control of the flow of goods in its supply chain, from factories in China and India to last-mile delivery to customers' homes.

Its meaning is a bit fuzzy, there being at least eight different ways to define it, but the central issue is clear: the power of the last-mile delivery networks — mostly traditional telecom or cable companies — to select, price, or differentiate among the internet information streams that pass through their pipes.

The firm would deliver stock to a central depot, and use the bikes to make last-mile deliveries to clients nearby.