What is a local courier facility and why is best to avoid them

When making deliveries through a local courier and while tracking the status of your order, you may get a message somehow similar to this: “Arrived at a local courier facility”. If you did, you were probably wondering what that means. In the next few lines, we will explain what a courier facility is, and why you should definitely try to avoid them.

What is a courier facility?

A courier facility is a specific location where the courier that will deliver your goods brings packages in order to be sorted and then distributed. If you received a message saying that your delivery has arrived at a courier facility, that actually means that your package has arrived at the facility of the courier that will make the final leg of the transportation process, or that after the courier picked up your packages they will take them there, and then after they are sorted, they will take them to their final destination.

Why is this not convenient for you?

Let’s face it; neither you nor your clients, if you deliver for a business, could care less about the logistics of how packages get from point A to point B. All you care about is that your packages get home safe and fast. And that is completely understandable. That is why you don’t want a courier that needs to take packages to facilities or distribution centers in order to be sorted. You want your packages to be picked up and delivered straight to their destination. This will make the waiting time shorter, and also the probability that your packages are somehow lost, or suffer any kind of damage is almost 0.

Conclusion

When looking for a courier, try to find out a little bit about their delivery process. When their operation seems too big they are probably sending packages to distribution centers, which make the whole delivery service slower and more unreliable.