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Shipping & Delivery Directory

Independent regional carriers, cargo-bike couriers, nonprofit food hubs and route software that small food makers and farms use to get orders to customers. Search by state. National networks like UPS, FedEx and DoorDash are left out.

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14 listingsUpdated November 2026
  • Local couriers

  • B-Line Urban Delivery

    Portland, Oregon
    Local courier

    B-Line has delivered in Portland since 2009 on electric-assist cargo trikes that carry up to 600 pounds each. It covers the city center, about 2.5 miles out. Makers can drop pallets at its southeast Portland warehouse or have them picked up. Certified B Corp since 2010.

    b-linepdx.comAsk Madeline's about B-Line
  • Regional carriers

  • Eastern Connection

    Maine to Virginia
    Regional carrier

    Eastern Connection is a regional parcel carrier for the Northeast. It delivers between Maine and Virginia.

    easternconnection.comAsk Madeline's about Eastern Connection

  • LSO (Lone Star Overnight)

    Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and parts of New Mexico
    Regional carrier

    LSO is a parcel carrier based in Austin. It delivers overnight across Texas and also covers Oklahoma, Louisiana and parts of New Mexico.

    lso.comAsk Madeline's about LSO

  • Pitt Ohio

    Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
    Regional carrier

    Pitt Ohio is a regional freight carrier. It moves pallets that are too big for a parcel service across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. A fit for shelf-stable goods: jars, bottles, bags of flour.

    pittohio.comAsk Madeline's about Pitt Ohio

  • Spee-Dee Delivery

    Upper Midwest
    Regional carrier

    Spee-Dee has carried parcels in the Upper Midwest since 1978. It runs ground and next-day service in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Ohio, rural routes included.

    speedeedelivery.comAsk Madeline's about Spee-Dee
  • Food hubs

  • GrowNYC Wholesale

    New York City
    Food hubRefrigerated

    GrowNYC Wholesale is the wholesale arm of the nonprofit that runs New York City's Greenmarket farmers markets. About 60 Northeast farms sell through it. Its 60,000 square foot cold storage hub in Hunts Point, the Bronx, supplies food buyers across the city.

    grownyc.orgAsk Madeline's about GrowNYC Wholesale

  • Red Tomato

    Nine Northeastern states, Pennsylvania to Maine
    Food hub

    Red Tomato is a nonprofit food hub for small and mid-sized orchards and vegetable farms. It takes orders from grocery stores, then lines up the farms and the trucking to fill them.

    redtomato.orgAsk Madeline's about Red Tomato

  • The Common Market

    Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Texas and Great Lakes
    Food hubRefrigerated

    The Common Market is a nonprofit food distributor founded in Philadelphia in 2008. Its refrigerated trucks collect from more than 200 small and mid-sized farms and deliver to schools, hospitals, universities, grocers and restaurants. Hubs are in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston and Chicago.

    thecommonmarket.orgAsk Madeline's about The Common Market
  • Route software

  • DeliveryBizPro

    Software, used anywhere
    Route software

    DeliveryBizPro puts online ordering, recurring orders, routes and drivers in one system. It is built for farms, CSAs, dairies and food hubs, and it has a free plan.

    deliverybizpro.comAsk Madeline's about DeliveryBizPro

  • Local Line

    Software, used anywhere
    Route software

    Local Line is online store software for farms and food hubs. It sets delivery zones, prints pick lists and pack lists by stop, and exports the day's stops to Routific or Road Warrior for routing.

    localline.coAsk Madeline's about Local Line

  • OptimoRoute

    Software, used anywhere
    Route software

    OptimoRoute plans routes and driver schedules and charges per driver. Tomato Mountain Farm, a CSA in Wisconsin, uses it for weekly home deliveries.

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  • Routific

    Software, used anywhere
    Route software

    Routific builds delivery routes from a list of orders and sends customers delivery updates. It takes orders from Shopify, Barn2Door and Local Food Marketplace. Its customers include farms, CSAs and food hubs.

    routific.comAsk Madeline's about Routific

  • Shipday

    Software, used anywhere
    Route software

    Shipday is a Shopify app for local delivery and pickup. Customers choose a delivery date or a pickup time at checkout, and you send out your own drivers. The starter plan is free.

    Shipday on the Shopify App StoreAsk Madeline's about Shipday

  • Spoke (formerly Circuit)

    Software, used anywhere
    Route software

    Spoke plans multi-stop routes in a phone app for one driver, or in Spoke Dispatch for a team. Three Chimney Farm used it to move from restaurant sales to home delivery.

    spoke.comAsk Madeline's about Spoke

Coverage areas come from each company's own published service area and they change. Confirm your ZIP code with the company before you plan a route. Madeline's takes no payment from any company listed. To add a courier, a carrier or a food hub, use the form.

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Shipping and delivery questions from makers and farms

How do small farms deliver to local customers?

Most run their own route on set days of the week. Orders close the night before, route software like Routific, Spoke or OptimoRoute puts the stops in order, and one driver does the run in a van or pickup. Routific reports that Terra Firma Farm in North Stonington, Connecticut went from about 80 home deliveries a month to nearly 1,000 this way.

What is a regional parcel carrier?

A parcel carrier that covers a group of states instead of the whole country. Spee-Dee Delivery covers the Upper Midwest, LSO covers Texas and its neighbors, and Eastern Connection covers the Northeast from Maine to Virginia. Inside its own area a regional carrier usually delivers in one to three days.

What is a food hub?

A food hub collects food from many small farms and delivers it to buyers like schools, hospitals, grocers and restaurants. The Common Market runs refrigerated trucks out of Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston and Chicago. Red Tomato lines up the trucking for orchards and vegetable farms in nine Northeastern states. Food hubs move cases and pallets, not single parcels.

Can a regional carrier ship cheese, meat or other perishables?

Yes, if the box holds its temperature for the whole trip. Plan on the box doing the work: an insulated liner and enough cold packs for the full transit time. Ship early in the week so a box does not sit in a depot over the weekend, and ask the carrier before you send anything frozen.

Why are UPS, FedEx, Uber and DoorDash not in this directory?

Every maker already knows them. This directory is for the small, local and independent companies that are harder to find. Madeline's takes no payment from any company listed.

How do I add a courier, a carrier or a food hub?

Use the form on this page. Tell us who they are, where they deliver and what they carry. We look at each one before it goes up.