Zone skipping is how LVK moves packages closer to your customer before final delivery. Instead of shipping each package individually from the origin warehouse, LVK groups packages headed to the same region into one bulk shipment and drops it at a sorting center near your customers, where a final mile carrier completes the delivery.
Direct Shipments vs. Zone Skipped Shipments
When an order was zone skipped, Zone Skipping appears next to the carrier tracking link on the order page.
Direct Shipment Flow
- The item is picked, packed, and shipped from an LVK warehouse.
- The carrier picks up the package and routes it through its sorting centers.
- The carrier delivers to the end customer.
Zone Skipping Flow
- The item is picked and packed at an LVK warehouse.
- The package is grouped with others in a bulk shipment headed to the same region.
- The bulk shipment is dropped at the carrier's local sorting center near the end customer.
- The final mile carrier delivers to the end customer.
LVK decides which packages to zone skip based on sales velocity and demand. You don't select it per order.
How Zone Skipping Affects Tracking
Zone skipping doesn't change your shipping cost or delivery time, which stays at 3 to 5 days. LVK pushes the final mile tracking number to your store the same way it does for any other shipment.
Early in transit, the tracking link may show only that a label was created, plus any movement recorded before the final mile carrier's first scan:
Final Mile Carrier Tracking
Tracking updates once the final mile carrier scans the package. That first scan can take slightly longer than on a direct shipment because zone skipping bypasses some carrier stops, and it doesn't delay the delivery itself.
Allow 72 hours before contacting support about an in-transit zone skipped shipment. That window gives the final mile carrier time to scan the package and update tracking.
Tracking links for zone skipped shipments expire 60 days after the ship date. After that, check the carrier's website directly for status.