shipping is the most under-discussed thing on this board
shipping is the most under-discussed thing on this board. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the wrong half for two years.
Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.
Asked BCH which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Regional stock replaces an international lane with a domestic one. That is a structural change to the distribution, not a marginal improvement, and it is why the warehouse question matters more than the carrier question.
Ordered from the warehouse in New Zealand instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 12 days, door to door.
Ordered from the warehouse in New Zealand instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared.
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.
Same. SWB quoted 20 days on my lane and it landed at 8, which is exactly what you want from a quote.
Same.
This is why the lane table is organised the way it is. The supplier is not the unit.
reship policy in writing before you order
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
Origin, destination, carrier and month?
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the lane is the unit of analysis, not the supplier
Ordered from the warehouse in New Zealand instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared.
ismael_varga is right about regional stock. It changes the shape of the distribution, not just the mean.
Disagree. That is a customs hold, not a carrier delay, and lumping them together makes the lane table wrong.
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
Push back: comparing a July transit with a February one on the same lane is not a comparison.
Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.
That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.
a lane with four reports is not yet a lane
origin, destination, carrier, month — post all four or the report is noise
declared value and description are the shipper’s decision, ask what they use
7 days on a lane quoted at 7 is the shape you want
A lane is an origin, a destination, a carrier and a season. Change any one and the distribution changes, which is why supplier-level shipping averages are close to meaningless.
Same lane in a different season for comparison?
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