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the ancient art of a stranger placing exactly what you crave at your door
means The act of bringing or handing over something — goods, mail, a baby, a speech, a punch — from one place or person to another.
from From the Old French 'delivrer,' meaning to set free or hand over, built from Latin 'de-' (away) plus 'liberare' (to free) — the same root behind 'liberty.' So at heart, to deliver is to release: a letter set loose from the sender, a parcel freed from the warehouse, a baby liberated into the world. The sense of 'manner of speaking' came later, the idea being that a speaker 'delivers up' their words to the listening crowd.
- word origin
- shares roots with liberty: to set free, deliver
- medical sense
- babies are delivered before pizza ever was
- last mile
- the final stretch costs over half of shipping
- pony express
- cross-country mail once took ten brutal days
- drone era
- some packages now arrive by literal aircraft
amazon prime — delivers packages to over 150 million members worldwide in under 24-48 hours
uber eats — food delivery service operating in 70+ countries with millions of daily orders
dhl express — international parcel delivery to 220+ countries, founded 1969
domino's pizza — pizza delivery chain with 18,000+ locations across 90 countries