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c/intlshipping·submitted 1 months ago by u/piotr_grimaldi

shipping is the most under-discussed thing on this board

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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,…

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u/ismael_varga54 points·1 months ago

Ordered from the warehouse in New Zealand instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 12 days, door to door.

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u/chidi_demir13 points·1 months ago

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.

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u/priya_palacios5 points·1 months ago

Same. SWB quoted 20 days on my lane and it landed at 8, which is exactly what you want from a quote.

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u/rohan_steiner6 points·1 months ago

Same.

This is why the lane table is organised the way it is. The supplier is not the unit.

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u/ines_boateng2 points·1 months ago

reship policy in writing before you order

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u/sanne_laurent5 points·1 months ago·edited

Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.

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u/piotr_grimaldiOP3 points·1 months ago

Origin, destination, carrier and month?

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u/graph_it_gary-13 points·1 months ago

the lane is the unit of analysis, not the supplier

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u/graph_it_gary23 points·1 months ago

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.

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u/elin_ferrari15 points·1 months ago

Disagree. That is a customs hold, not a carrier delay, and lumping them together makes the lane table wrong.

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