Difference Between Shipping and Delivery

 

Order – Shipping – Deliver

We can broadly categorize the journey of a product in this 3-step e-commerce chain that starts from the consumer placing an order to finally receiving it. While modern e-commerce sites have made it so easy and rather tempting for the users to place an order, shipping and delivery to have come a long way.  

With the rise of e-commerce, not just customers, even business owners are often using the words ‘shipping’ and ‘delivery’ as if they mean the same thing. And even though they’re pretty easy to confuse, they mean two distinct things. Now let’s take a look at both. 

Shipping

What does the internet say about shipping? 

Shipping has two definitions with a hairline difference. Firstly, it means the ‘date’ on which the product is going to be dispatched (sent out) from the warehouse/fulfilment centre. Its second meaning includes the processing, packaging, and dispatching of small items that can be sent to the customer quickly, and fairly easily via local postal service. 

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