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c/intlshipping·submitted 1 year ago by u/mod_cold_room

[Question] DHL — what am I missing here

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Trying to get a straight answer on this: DHL — what am I missing here. Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route. Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a year. The quote held; the variance was all in the last mile. Ordered from the…

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u/emil_agyeman142 points·1 year ago

Same lane in a different season for comparison?

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u/vikram_mbeki35 points·1 year ago

Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.

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u/karim_hartmann51 points·1 year ago·edited

Asked MKM which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when.

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u/lina_adebayo11 points·1 year ago

How many shipments does your figure cover?

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u/marta_trevino7 points·1 year ago

Careful — the supplier does not control the last mile and most of your variance is in it.

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u/mod_cold_roomOPmod · c/coldchain3 points·1 year ago

Same lane, four orders, 3 to 21 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.

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u/marisol_moreau23 points·1 year ago

Push back: comparing a July transit with a February one on the same lane is not a comparison.

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u/transit_variance18 points·1 year ago

no tracking numbers, ever

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