reading lane threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
Thinking out loud about this: reading lane threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Asked FGP which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when. Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the wrong half for two years. Four…
Was it shipped from a regional warehouse or from origin?
A lane is an origin, a destination, a carrier and a season. Change any one and the distribution changes, which is why supplier-level shipping averages are close to meaningless.
customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated
summer and winter are different lanes with the same name
summer and winter are different lanes with the same name
joaquin_stanescu is right about regional stock. It changes the shape of the distribution, not just the mean.
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
rigid outer packaging is the cheapest quality signal there is