how much of what we believe about lane actually comes from shipping threads
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: how much of what we believe about lane actually comes from shipping threads. Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route. Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I…
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.
the last mile is where most of the variance lives
I would not read a single slow shipment as a lane change. Post it and let the median move if it is real.
the median is more useful than the fastest anybody ever got
Do they publish a reship policy, and did you read it before ordering?
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.
rigid outer packaging is the cheapest quality signal there is
Correcting myself: 9 days, not the figure I posted upthread. I was counting from the order date rather than dispatch.
a lane with four reports is not yet a lane
summer and winter are different lanes with the same name
the lane is the unit of analysis, not the supplier