[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":326},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Flancaster":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":173,"sources":180,"related":202,"plate":243,"form":260,"scene":261,"path":262,"crumb":26,"ruler":263,"answer":264,"title":265,"h1":265,"description":264,"type":266,"schema":267,"reviewed":270,"crumbs":271,"jsonld":281},3,[6,14,47,74,106,131,140],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Lancaster, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Geography first: it is farm and food country in south-central Pennsylvania, between Philadelphia and Harrisburg on US-30 and US-222. That is the setting for a pallet buyer in the Lancaster area of Pennsylvania.",{"t":10,"text":13},"Dairy product manufacturing is where this area is most concentrated, at 4.5 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Lancaster county.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"17601","Lancaster","14",[29,30,31],"17022","Elizabethtown","7",[33,34,35],"17554","Mountville","5",[37,38,39],"17517","Denver","4",[41,42,43],"17557","New Holland","3","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":46},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 33 establishments between them. 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Dairy moves through cold rooms and wash bays, so the pallet needs to take both without losing the rating the sheet prints. It tends to lean on stackable or nestable in a cold-friendly resin, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the maker's cold performance and wash guidance.",{"h2":107,"blocks":108},"The empty return",[109,111],{"t":10,"text":110},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 33 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Lancaster sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 16,500 pallets. 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