Gremlion: By my experience, game uses "sister planets" logic, delivery quests usually appear between predefined planets, maybe sister sector for your gaals haven't unlocked yet.
GreenManBlue: Doesn't matter too much now but the delivery missions are definitely the easiest way to level and make money if they were always available. I figure it's either something with a sector being pirates or something. My ship at the time had like 85 jump range so was good way to level and make money until it broke.
If a system has pirates in it, then you're much more likely to get a system protection or ship protection mission than any other mission - I think those missions override whatever the mission would be otherwise.
Note that this works even if the pirates are actually your fellow wing-men - I've had cases where the protection mission was offered, but then as soon as one of my pirate wingmen landed it changed to something else, then back to the same protection mission when the ship took off again.