Greetings from the Milwaukee County Federated Library System !

I am pleased to announce that MCFLS has contracted for a new delivery service to begin January, 2010. Beginning the first week of the new year, Action Logistics LLC will be the sole vendor for inter-library sorting/delivery for all MCFLS member library locations.

The new service will divide the public library locations into 3 routes of eight or nine locations each (North, Central, and South routes). Each route will have a single, dedicated driver/sorter. Each library within a particular route will receive delivery and pickup, Monday through Friday, at approximately the same time. 

 

A significant efficiency with the new delivery service is that items picked up from a site will be immediately sorted before the driver proceeds to the next stop on the route.

 

At the end of the day the 3 driver/sorters will meet together at the loading dock of the Milwaukee Public Library Central Library to organize materials for delivery the next day.   

 

This new method of delivery guarantees a next day arrival for materials that go into the delivery and will sometimes result in same day delivery, i.e., if the item sorted is destined for a location yet to be serviced on the same route that particular day.

 

Please let us know what you think of the new delivery service.

Thank you for your continued support of libraries and the Milwaukee County Federated Library System.

 

Best Wishes for a Wonderful New Year,

Jim Gingery

Director
Milwaukee County Federated Library System