# delivery (service)

the act of ship an item to a place for a person

- Computed level: L13 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: delivery

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [items](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-items.object), [shipping](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shipping.transport), [location](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-location.spatial)

**Through:** the item is ship to the place where a person receives it

**Novel properties:**
- spatial transfer
- timed receipt
- service completion

## Examples
- Amazon delivers Prime orders to U.S. homes within two days using its fulfillment network. *(economics)*
- The Apollo 11 mission delivered lunar samples to Earth via the Command Module Columbia. *(engineering)*
- Royal Mail delivers letters and parcels to UK addresses using a nationwide sorting and transport system. *(institutions)*

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