[Meta] the carrier rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the carrier rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Disagreement welcome, but bring a concrete alternative wording.
Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.
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.
Packaging is assessable on arrival with no equipment: rigid outer, no movement inside, the cold element sized to the transit rather than to the box.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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 variance sits in the last two.
reship policy in writing before you order
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
Same lane in a different season for comparison?
Tracking number redacted. No exceptions on this one — it identifies both ends of a shipment.