For many small to medium sized businesses, delivery charges are a substantial part of their annual budgets. If you think about it, delivery charges occur for items a company receives as well as for items it ships. It is not just something manufacturing companies are concerned about but service based companies as well. Products are shipped, supplies are received, items are sent to laboratories for analysis, proposals are delivered, reports are distributed, newsletters transmitted and designs are communicated. Delivery methods are not only trucks, air planes, railroads and ships. Many deliveries are electronic using several types of software products communicating over specific Internet band widths. Data communication is not free, have you looked at your phone bill, web, text, and email charges lately? Now, multiply that by several orders of magnitude for a larger company.