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The depot at ten at night, the van in an alley at eight, the bike that takes the last four hundred metres. This is the long version of the board, written from the places the parcels actually wait.
Fictional demo · sample data · photographs from Unsplash (see CREDITS.md)
01 The depot
By ten, the day's pickups are on roll cages and the routes are printed. What happens in the next six hours decides which doorstep gets a knock before noon and which one gets a message.
Sorting is not a step in a list. It is the only hour where a wrong label is still cheap to fix.
02 The van
The last kilometre is not a distance. It is a parking space, a buzzer that does not work, and a building where the fourth floor is the only one without a lift. A route that ignores that is a schedule, not a plan.
The board keeps the attempt, the reason, and the next step on the parcel, so a second attempt is a decision rather than a surprise.
03 The bike
In the dense part of the metro, the bike beats the van because it never looks for parking. The trade is capacity: a basket, a rack, and a rider who knows which doorbell is broken.
Parcelry treats bike runs as a mode, not a favour. They appear in the same timeline, with the same events and the same proof of delivery.
Counted from the sample file, not estimated
Where the story becomes a tool
The dispatch board shows the runs, the attempts, and the exceptions behind these three places.