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2. Rural Free Delivery - Wikipedia

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   Rural Free Delivery ( RFD ), since 1906 officially rural delivery, is a program of the United States Post Office Department to deliver mail directly to rural destinations. The program began in the late 19th century. Before that, people living in rural areas had to pick up mail themselves at sometimes distant post offices or pay private carriers ...

3. Vehicle routing problem - Wikipedia

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   Vehicle routing problem. The vehicle routing problem ( VRP) is a combinatorial optimization and integer programming problem which asks "What is the optimal set of routes for a fleet of vehicles to traverse in order to deliver to a given set of customers?" It generalises the travelling salesman problem (TSP).

4. 5 ways optimizing delivery routes could help the environment

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   Routific compiled a list of five ways optimizing delivery routes helps the environment by reducing road transport emissions using data from government sources, sustainability reports, and industry ...

5. Rural delivery service - Wikipedia

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   Rural Society. Rural delivery service refers to services for the delivery of mail to rural areas. In many countries, rural mail delivery follows different rules and practices from that in urban areas. For example, in some areas rural delivery may require homeowners to travel to a centralized mail delivery depot or a community mailbox rather ...

6. Rural letter carrier - Wikipedia

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   A rural letter carrier from Fort Myers, Florida in 2006. Rural letter carriers are United States Postal Service and Canada Post employees who deliver mail in what are traditionally considered rural and suburban areas of the United States and Canada. Before Rural Free Delivery (RFD), rural Americans and Canadians were required to go to a post ...

7. Journey planner - Wikipedia

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   A journey planner, trip planner, or route planner is a specialized search engine used to find an optimal means of travelling between two or more given locations, sometimes using more than one transport mode. [1] [2] Searches may be optimized on different criteria, for example fastest, shortest, fewest changes, cheapest. [3]