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THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 3

By Cathal Brennan · 4 parts · 15 h 42 min · English

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Seattle and Memphis, 1907 to 1983. A nineteen-year-old messenger named Jim Casey borrows a hundred dollars, puts boys on bicycles, and spends the next sixty years discovering that the money in delivery is not in the vehicle but in how many stops it makes between one and the next. Sixty-four years later a Marine officer home from Vietnam named Frederick Smith argues that the way to move a small urgent package across a continent is to fly it in the wrong direction first, through a single airport in Tennessee, at night. Both men are building the same thing from opposite ends. This is the history of route density: the least glamorous idea in American business, and the one that decided who delivered your parcel. Covers Jim Casey, Frederick Smith, United Parcel Service, and Federal Express.

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  1. Part 01

    3:34:51

  2. Part 02

    3:56:17

  3. Part 03

    4:22:24

  4. Part 04

    3:48:45

Books in this series

  1. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 1

    4 parts · 16 h 26 min

  2. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 46 min

  3. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 42 min

  4. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 34 min

  5. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 11 min

  6. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 13 min