[PSA] no tracking numbers. they identify both ends. removed on sight.
The one-line version is the title: no tracking numbers. they identify both ends. removed on sight. The rest is why. The rigid outer with no rattle in it was the thing that told me most about that supplier, before I had tested anything. Why this board reports by lane and not by supplier. Two members ordering from the…
a quoted lead time you can hold them to is worth more than a fast one you cannot
I would not read a single slow shipment as a lane change. Post it and let the median move if it is real.
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This. A quoted lead time that holds is worth more than a fast one that does not.
Where the time actually goes, which I got wrong for two years.
Total transit is first mile, international leg, customs clearance and last mile. I had been attributing everything to the international leg because that is the part with the exotic-sounding name.
When I finally logged the stages separately, the international leg was the most consistent part of the whole journey. The variance was in clearance and in the domestic delivery at my end — neither of which the supplier controls. That reframed how I read every lane report on this board, and it is why the table separates the stages.
7 days on a lane quoted at 11 is the shape you want