does reship actually matter or is it forum lore at this point
Trying to get a straight answer on this: does reship actually matter or is it forum lore at this point.
Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.
Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a year. The quote held; the variance was all in the last mile.
Ordered from the warehouse in the UK instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 6 days, door to door.
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
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
a lane with four reports is not yet a lane
That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.
Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the wrong half for two years.
Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.
Asked KP which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when.
The rigid outer with no rattle in it was the thing that told me most about that supplier, before I had tested anything.
The rigid outer with no rattle in it was the thing that told me most about that supplier, before I had tested anything.
Agreed — and the decomposition matters. Most people are blaming the international leg for a last-mile problem.
Same lane, four orders, 6 to 9 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.
A quoted lead time is a commitment you can evaluate. Measuring quoted against actual across several orders tells you more about an operation than the raw speed does.