[Question] how do you actually verify shipping
how do you actually verify shipping. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete. Asked TFC which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when. Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a year. The quote held; the variance…
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.
ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse
Ordered from the warehouse in Denmark instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 11 days, door to door.
Same lane in a different season for comparison?
the last mile is where most of the variance lives
customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated
The rigid outer with no rattle in it was the thing that told me most about that supplier, before I had tested anything.
Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.
Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.