Apple Insider:

In its first ever quarterly study, customer service analytics firm StellaService ranked Apple as the fastest and most most efficient online retailer in terms of shipments for the fourth quarter of 2014, taking an average of 2.5 days to send out orders.

Detailed in a StellaService’s Benchmark report published Thursday, Online Apple Store customers saw their packages arrive an average of 1.5 days faster than the four-day delivery time average aggregated from the Web’s top 25 retailers. The number is down slightly from a one-month period sampled in June 2014, when Apple ranked No. 1 for the first time with a 2.3-day order fulfillment average.

Apple-centric data provided to AppleInsider covering the period between February 2014 and January 2015 shows 85 percent of Apple orders were fulfilled on the day they were placed, compared to 41 percent for the rest of the Top 40. All Apple orders tracked by StellaService were shipped within one business day.