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After you place an order online, you might get a shipping update that mentions a carrier facility. The notice might say “Arriving at carrier facility” or “Leaving carrier facility.” Here’s everything you need to know about this stage of order fulfillment.
A carrier facility is a distribution facility operated by a delivery company. Trucks drop off packages for addresses in the region served by that carrier facility. Other trucks pick up outbound packages. Delivery vans pick up parcels to deliver to customers. If the order originated far from you, it might stop at multiple carrier facilities. Each time, the package is resorted and loaded on another truck that will take it closer to its final destination.
You may have noticed that an order has “arrived at the carrier facility.” It could be at the parcel distribution centre closest to where you live. If so, the next step in its journey is being loaded into a delivery truck to go straight to your home.
However, as noted above, some packages stop at multiple carrier facilities. Therefore, “Arrived at carrier facility” could mean that your order has completed one more leg of a multi-leg journey.
You might see your package arrive at a carrier facility if you’re tracking a much-anticipated online order. And then it might just sit there, sometimes for several days. That could mean that the delivery company is overwhelmed with boxes, so there’s a backlog in getting them on trucks for delivery. A shortage of delivery trucks or drivers could also cause the bottleneck. During peak shipping times, such as holidays, deliveries sometimes take longer to arrive because the system just can’t transport all those boxes.
If your package is stuck at a carrier facility that isn’t far away, it’s tempting to pick it up. You can’t pick it up even if you could get to the warehouse. These package distribution centres are industrial sites that aren’t built to serve public members. These facilities aren’t set up so that employees can find a single package among the thousands of items moving through the warehouse.
Your eCommerce business needs to track packages to help troubleshoot for customers. You might also run a report with tracking data to determine how long your orders take to get to customers. That can point you toward ways to improve your logistics operations so your packages travel through fewer shipping zones.
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