Abstract: A method and apparatus for the distribution and collection of parcels to multiple destinations in an urban environment is effected through the use of a "mini-warehouse" modular container which may be delivered during low traffic hours in the early morning or late evening to a curbside site for filling or emptying of parcels during normal daylight hours. Thereafter the container may be removed from that curbside site after emptying or filling at a very late or very early hour in which vehicular traffic is nil. The apparatus is essentially a parallelpiped "mini-warehouse" which container having an access door, may be parked at curbside in a space generally that of a single motor vehicle. Other motor vehicles are prohibited from parking in the space by appropriate structure which prevents vehicular parking on the support for the "mini-warehouse" container.