1. The mode of last-mile delivery, AHD, is always customers’ favorite one.
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2. Not every order has to be delivered same-day or next-day; merchants should first focus on delivering dates that they can guarantee.
3. Building DCs or warehouses as close as possible to metropolitan zones with huge advantages of infrastructure is the most cost-effective site selection.
4. By focusing on last-mile delivery alternatives retailers are able to compete with giant shipping carriers.
5. Despite innovative solutions to last-mile delivery problem, all merchants face the undeniable challenge of offering speedy, accurate, transparent shipping processes for low or no cost.
6. The reason why most plastic packaging materials don’t get recycled is that many people don’t realize their side-effects.
7. In ancient times, only materials available in the nature were used to form packages.
8. Greening packaging should start from prevention, that is, packaging should be used only where needed.
9. Recovery means cleaning, repairing and reprocessing the packages into new products.
10. Steering toward green packaging in delivery service needs efforts on multiple fronts, governments, express delivery companies, packagers, retailers, consumers etc.
2. The Pony Express, nevertheless, has become s________ with the Old West. (–having the same, or nearly the same, meaning)
3. By the 1840s the influx of p________ to the Northwest, and the flood of prospectors to California after 1848 had created an increasing demand for mail delivery to and from the East. (–the first people to go to a particular area in order to live and work there)
4. Later this route was ultimately j________ by growing North-South tension. (–cause sth. to be harmed, lost or destroyed; put in danger)
5. They switched m________ every 10-12 miles. (–a horse that you ride on)
6. This relay system allowed mail to criss-cross the f________ in record time. (–the edge of land where people live and have built towns, beyond which the country is wild and unknown, especially in the western US in the 19th century)