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It's all to do with land area, if you look at any house in rural France, which is vast in comparison to the UK, you will see that nearly every house has a trailer sitting somewhere in the property, this is due to obviously to pick up supplies, but also due to the vast amount that companies charge for delivery.
Same applied here in NI and probably much of the UK.
Prior to online shopping ushering in the era of home delivery everything had to be collected. A builder's supplier may have delivered, but only if the order was sizeable and if you weren't near to them a not inconsiderable sum may have been involved.
Growing up I don't remember anything being delivered other than heating oil, with all other goods being collected by car or trailer. All seems a bit mad now considering the tiny scale of NI.