[PSA] shipping is not what most of this community thinks it is
shipping is not what most of this community thinks it is — with the reasoning, because a rule without a reason gets ignored.
Asked HJ 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 was all in the last mile.
Posted my first lane report here without the month and got asked for it. Fair, and the table is better for the fussiness.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Why this board reports by lane and not by supplier.
Two members ordering from the same operation, in the same month, can see completely different transit times because they are on different routes with different carriers and different clearance points. Averaging them produces a supplier-level number that predicts nothing for either of them.
A lane — origin, destination, carrier, month — is the smallest thing that behaves consistently enough to be worth measuring. Once a route has a dozen reports behind it the median is genuinely useful, and that is what the tables on the source pages are built from.
Push back: comparing a July transit with a February one on the same lane is not a comparison.
declared value and description are the shipper’s decision, ask what they use
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How many shipments does your figure cover?
the last mile is where most of the variance lives