DHL is the most under-discussed thing on this board
Thinking out loud about this: DHL is the most under-discussed thing on this board. The regional stock question, and why it is the first thing I ask now. If a supplier holds the line you want in a warehouse in your own region, your order is a domestic shipment. No international leg, no clearance, a shorter cold…
customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated
customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.
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.
rigid outer packaging is the cheapest quality signal there is
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month.
Disagreeing with this bit: a single slow shipment does not move a lane, it joins the distribution.
What was the packaging like on arrival?
Disagreeing with this bit: a single slow shipment does not move a lane, it joins the distribution.
This is why the lane table is organised the way it is. The supplier is not the unit.
Cosigning the seasonality point. February and August on the same lane are different animals.
Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the wrong half for two years.
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation. Worth posting, worth separating.
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reship policy in writing before you order
the median is more useful than the fastest anybody ever got
two identical orders a week apart is the cheapest experiment available
the last mile is where most of the variance lives
Right, and the last mile is where my variance has always come from, not the international leg.