three years of shipping threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
three years of shipping threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. 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. Regional stock…
Where the time actually goes, which I got wrong for two years.
Total transit is first mile, international leg, customs clearance and last mile. I had been attributing everything to the international leg because that is the part with the exotic-sounding name.
When I finally logged the stages separately, the international leg was the most consistent part of the whole journey. The variance was in clearance and in the domestic delivery at my end — neither of which the supplier controls. That reframed how I read every lane report on this board, and it is why the table separates the stages.
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Total transit decomposes into first mile, international leg, clearance and last mile. Only the first two are meaningfully under the shipper’s control and most reported variance sits in the last two.
Where the time actually goes, which I got wrong for two years.
Agreed — and the decomposition matters. Most people are blaming the international leg for a last-mile problem.
Where did the time actually go — international leg, clearance, or last mile?
Asked for the month rather than removing. Without it the report cannot be compared to anything.
a lane with four reports is not yet a lane
Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.
Asked for the month rather than removing.
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.
Agreed. Reporting by lane rather than by supplier is what made the tables here actually predictive.