Patent ID: 8160972

Claim:
A method for controlling delivery of items purchased from merchant locations by a traveler while said traveler is at said merchant's physical location, said method performed under control of at least one processor, said method comprising: establishing by said traveler an ID to be used by said traveler, said establishing being under at least partial control of one of said processors; associating with said ID, by said at least one processor, at least one delivery location for delivery to said traveler of items identified by said traveler at various geographic locations; associating with said ID, by said at least one processor, a time frame for said delivery of said identified items; retrieving, by a shipping service consolidator, items identified by said traveler while said traveler was physically at various merchants locations within said geographic locations for consolidation; and delivering, by the shipping service consolidator, subsequent to said consolidation, said identified items to said delivery location at a conclusion of said time frame.