Freight company probably didn't invent the term "logistics" as the military has used to for a very long time.
Most civilians usually would associate these freight companies over here especially as the UPS company uses it a lot.
As on your side of the Big Pond we also have terrible carriers. Several of them I refuse to use and some then have since gone out of business. Even our postal system got pretty bad with time delays for packages and mail back in the 1980's, 1990's, and part of the 2000's but now they are fairly reliable. Currently the only two carriers that I can depend on is the US Mail and UPS.
