EMS is the most under-discussed thing on this board
EMS is the most under-discussed thing on this board. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
Ordered from the warehouse in Poland instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 6 days, door to door.
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.
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.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
origin, destination, carrier, month — post all four or the report is noise
Merged into the standing thread for that lane so the reports accumulate in one place.
Asked HJ which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when.
Merged into the standing thread for that lane so the reports accumulate in one place.
transit_variance is right about regional stock. It changes the shape of the distribution, not just the mean.
Why this board reports by lane and not by supplier.
Two members ordering from the same operation, in the same month, can see completely different transit times because they are on different routes with different carriers and different clearance points. Averaging them produces a supplier-level number that predicts nothing for either of them.
A lane — origin, destination, carrier, month — is the smallest thing that behaves consistently enough to be worth measuring. Once a route has a dozen reports behind it the median is genuinely useful, and that is what the tables on the source pages are built from.
Same lane in a different season for comparison?