Low capital and operational cost e-commerce logistics system for fast and massive delivery of e-commerce merchandise to large geographical areas

A low capital and operation cost e-commerce first-mile logistics system that allows for the fast and massive delivery of e-commerce merchandise in an extensive geographical area, reducing the need for building, operating, or using a large number of fulfillment centers located near the consumers as in traditional e-commerce de-centralized logistics, the logistics system comprising:

• A processing system (16) including a processor (161),
• A memory (162) that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitates performance of operations, the operations comprising at least:
• Receiving, at a computing system (3), fulfillment information (23) of an order for e-commerce merchandise (21) placed through at least one of an online shopping platform or a consumer (22), where the computing system (3) is capable of receiving at least 10,000 orders per day, wherein the computing system (3) is in network connection or communication with at least one Central Fulfillment Center (CFC),
• Receiving and processing the fulfillment information (23) at the at least one Central Fulfillment Center (CFC) (2) having a storage area of at least about 5,000 m2, a height of at least two meters from a floor and a top-most roof of the facility to store at least 10,000 e-commerce merchandise, the CFC being located at a distance of no more than 50 km from a runway facility for at least one of take-off or landing of a manned aircraft;
• Instructing a sorting system (4) in connection with the at least one CFC (2) to:
• i. select and sort the merchandise (21) stored in the at least one CFC (2) based on the fulfillment information (23),
• ii. prepare at least one multibox package to contain the selected merchandise (21), wherein the at least one multibox package contains products from more than one order or consumer, and
• iii. configure or prepare at least one air-cargo containing at least the at least one multibox package;
• Determining a first-mile drop zone (8) for the at least one air-cargo (8), the first-mile drop zone (8) configured to receive the air-cargo dropped from the aircraft;
• Arranging and sending air-cargo information to the determined first-mile drop zone (8), the determined drop zone comprising at least one of a landing assisting system (9) or a path guidance system (10), wherein the landing assisting system is configured to reduce the landing speed of the air-cargo and/or providing a softer landing of the at least one air-cargo (43) and is selected from the group comprising a net receiving system (91), a landing surface cushion system (92), a speed reduction system (93), a shock absorption system (94), an air-cargo protection system (95) or a combination thereof, and wherein the path guidance system is configured to provide guidance to the at least one air-cargo (43);
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• Generating a delivery instruction to a delivery system (15) arranged to deliver the e-commerce merchandise (21) to consumers from the drop zone;
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• A loading system (6) for loading the air-cargo (43) into at the least one manned air-drop delivery aircraft (5) in a specific order based on an air-drop delivery projected path and travel information, wherein the loading system (6) comprises a device to read a label attached to the air-cargo (43), to send a signal to the computing system (3) with a label information and to process an instruction from the computing system (3) that, based on the fulfillment information, determines the position of the air-cargo (43) within the aircraft.