Last quarter mile logistics is such a hard problem, for many domains and figurative definitions of the last year quarter mile.
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Concrete example: Western Union can move money between any agent and any agent for really cheap, but moving money between any person A and any person B requires agents (cash handling businesses usually), and those cost ~50% of the total cost of moving money.
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You also see this in e.g. package delivery. After something is on UPS or Sagawa’s rails teleporting it around the globe rounds to free but that *{%}^^ing residential delivery takes all the hard work.
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