Your courier companies information pamphlets or websites are going to contain a lot
of different pieces of marketing about the various services that they offer. While you might not ever need some of the services that your Milwaukee delivery company has to offer, it is worth your time to get familiar with them. That way, if you ever do have a new or unusual situation crop up in your shipping needs, you know what you have available to you and can move faster on getting the shipping that is going to be most appropriate in your particular situation.
NFO is something that many couriers will advertise as being one of the fastest ways to ship anything. NFO stands for Next Flight Out, and this means that your courier will be sending your shipment via air delivery. The only time that ground delivery is going to be fast than air is when you're only shipping across a single city and air isn't applicable. That is why having an NFO option to ship with your courier company can be great.
When something is going to ship on a next flight out basis, it means exactly that. Your courier will look at all the available flights that are leaving from your local airports. They will then select a flight (or combination of connecting flights) that will result in your delivery being made in the least amount of time possible.
The only potential downside to shipping anything on an NFO basis is the cost which it entails. Anytime you're shipping something by air instead of by ground, the costs go up quite a bit. However, there are many business situations where the necessity for speed is far more important than saving the money that would be gained by ground shipping.
NFO shipment is still available in some smaller centers that might not have a major international airport immediately at hand. They will instead look at the airports that are closest to their location in terms of their ground routes. They will calculate based on the amount of time that ground shipping and the flights available from the nearby airports what is going to be the fastest way to get your product to its destination. They will calculate this based on outgoing flight schedules, which might mean that a faster NFO time can be gained by shipping slightly further on the ground to a center that has a faster flight leaving sooner to your packages ultimate destination.