help me understand lane, I have read the wiki twice
help me understand lane, I have read the wiki twice. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.
Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a year. The quote held; the variance was all in the last mile.
Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.
Asked QST which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Left up and added to the lane table. All four required fields were present, which is rarer than it should be.
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.
A lane is an origin, a destination, a carrier and a season.
Disagreeing with this bit: a single slow shipment does not move a lane, it joins the distribution.
Push back: comparing a July transit with a February one on the same lane is not a comparison.
Not convinced by four data points. That is not a lane yet, it is an anecdote with a route attached.
Left up and added to the lane table.
Agreed — and the decomposition matters. Most people are blaming the international leg for a last-mile problem.
rigid outer packaging is the cheapest quality signal there is
Careful — the supplier does not control the last mile and most of your variance is in it.
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customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation. Worth posting, worth separating.
16 days on a lane quoted at 16 is the shape you want
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