[Meta] the shipping rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
Putting this to the board: the shipping rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. A quoted lead time is a commitment you can evaluate. Measuring quoted against actual across several orders tells you more about an operation than the raw speed does. Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is…
Packaging is assessable on arrival with no equipment: rigid outer, no movement inside, the cold element sized to the transit rather than to the box.
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation. Worth posting, worth separating.
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation.
ines_boateng is right about regional stock. It changes the shape of the distribution, not just the mean.
customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated
summer and winter are different lanes with the same name
a quoted lead time you can hold them to is worth more than a fast one you cannot
Same lane, four orders, 14 to 16 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.
a lane with four reports is not yet a lane
origin, destination, carrier, month — post all four or the report is noise
two identical orders a week apart is the cheapest experiment available