> In message bt.com>, at 10:59:54 on
> Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Brimstone yahoo.co.uk> remarked:

>>> If the goods aren't perishable, or urgent (like first class post)
>>> then having ten day's extra stock shouldn't be too much of an
>>> issue. Paying four people for a week to get them from London to
>>> Birmingham, rather than one bloke for three hours, is huge.

>>
>> But the saving on the cost of property in which to keep those goods
>> is also huge.

>
> But with road transport you don't need to store them, if the
> deliveries are "just in time" through the supply chain.