How Overnight Shipping Works | Wendover Productions
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How Overnight Shipping Works | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202615 min
  • Documentary
  • Business & money

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This video was made possible by Squarespace. Build your website for 10% off at squarespace.com slash Wendover. Overnight shipping is an absolute masterpiece of logistics that happens every single night. It may not be cheap, but you can get a package shipped from Miami, Florida on a Monday to

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Anchorage, Alaska by 8.30am on Tuesday. In fact, you can even ship a package, for example, from Edinburgh, Scotland on a Tuesday and have the package arrive in Anchorage, Alaska by 9am on Wednesday. The speed and efficiency of these worldwide delivery networks is mind-blowing and it all

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happens while we sleep. The three major consumer courier companies are FedEx, DHL, and UPS and each of them is as impressive as the last. FedEx has more planes than Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways combined, DHL delivers

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