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c/intlshipping·submitted 11 months ago by u/graph_it_gary

unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about carrier is guesswork

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unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about carrier is guesswork. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Total transit decomposes into first mile, international leg, clearance and last mile. Only the first two are meaningfully under the shipper’s control and most reported…

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u/protein_first_pnutrition310 points·11 months ago

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.

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u/milan_chukwu101 points·11 months ago

12 days on a lane quoted at 5 is the shape you want

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u/ismael_pires92 points·11 months ago

A quoted lead time is a commitment you can evaluate.

Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.

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u/graph_it_garyOP50 points·11 months ago

Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.

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u/teodor_szabo19 points·11 months ago

That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.

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u/tarek_lokken6 points·11 months ago

no tracking numbers, ever

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u/transit_variance17 points·11 months ago

summer and winter are different lanes with the same name

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