Proximity to the customer, quality, responsiveness, delivery times and other factors matter as well.
Producers of bits can use the Internet to reduce their delivery times to practically zero.
Packaging and shipping orders is a central expense for Amazon, which has been building warehouses to speed delivery times.
Moreover, as suggested above, transportation costs are much lower and delivery times far shorter when goods are made here.
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Her shop reopened after she agreed to ship products directly from her home, adding one week to delivery times for U.S. consumers.
Even a manufacturer focused on inputs and delivery times sees the news.
While delivery times vary by retailer and carrier, experts suggest that you allow at least 21 days for the arrival of your purchase.
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In the first hour, the first batch of iPhone 5 smartphones were sold out, pushing back delivery times from September 21 to as far as early October.
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The average size of parcels sent from business to business is also growing, as global firms increasingly depend on speedy supply, and guaranteed delivery times, of parts and supplies.
Three years ago Cemex would tell customers it would try to make deliveries of ready-mix concrete (the kind that comes in the trucks with rotating barrels) within three hours of agreed delivery times.
For example, market leaders, such as Dell, can ask suppliers to provide goods at delivery times measured in days and under conditions that ensure the suppliers must accept the return of unused products.
Since the magazine has been taking steps to accelerate delivery times, only about a quarter of its subscribers "will actually see their delivery move from Saturday until Monday, " said Bernie Schraml, head of Bloomberg Businessweek Manufacturing and Distribution.
Delivery times have gone from an average of three hours -- and from highs of several days -- to an average of three minutes, mainly because the new system, unlike the old one, was set up so that messages only travel as far as they need to in order to reach their recipients.
Consider this scenario, for example, that is more likely to happen because of the growing capacity of social technologies: What if a hospital chain, a food service company, and an analytics and social software firm joined forces to co-create a system that enabled hospital patients to chose meals and delivery times from customized menu offerings, based on their medical condition?
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Again, all New York Times home delivery subscribers will receive free access to NYTimes.com and to all content on our apps.
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On Thursday, one of the teams shot at a pickup that resembled Dorner's but turned out to be a Los Angeles Times newspaper delivery vehicle.
About a year and a half ago, I canceled my home delivery of The New York Times.
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The result, Dr Bhatia and Dr von Maltzahn report, is a delivery system that is 40 times more effective than using nanoparticles by themselves.
"Returns for cash on delivery are about seven to 10 times greater than online payments, " said Savitar Jagtiani, business head of e-commerce for Lebanon's Landmark Group.
If you were one of the 8 MILLION home delivery subscribers to The New York Times that got an email yesterday asking you to reconsider canceling your service, did it make you think twice?
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The moves are aimed at improving delivery of patient care by cutting waiting times and creating salaried GPs.
Become increasingly impatient with longer lines, wait-times and delays as instant digital delivery of products and services become the norm.
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Think about that: Mr. Granberry delivered the identical content each of the eight times and nothing changed but his delivery.
Over the past few years, Ryan has implemented an improved methodology for product delivery at Sprint which has reduced product cycle times and saved the company millions of dollars annually in rework and development costs.
The Times offers a variety of home-delivery plans, and it appears that customers with these plans will also be included.
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C-sections account for more than 30 percent of all deliveries in the US, at roughly 1.5 times the average costs of a normal delivery, when the medically indicated rate is easily less than half that.
Much like the language, the arrangement is a model of sublime economy, built around Veirs' slender guitar part and gentle rhythmic accents. (With her sweet, breathy delivery, the Oregon-based Veirs sounds at times like an older, romantically thwarted Taylor Swift.) But as the song continues, the production gradually builds, as if matching her own escalating ache.
When she learned of the possible mention, Ms. Krepak paid her manufacturer in China four times more than usual in shipping fees to get a rush delivery of her product.
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Often times it is NOT a question of competence or clarity, but delivery.
Digital delivery means readers outside the New York area no longer face a choice between paying more for the Times or settling for a second-rate local paper like, say, the Gainesville Sun.
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