[Question] Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on carrier
Trying to get a straight answer on this: Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on carrier. 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…
Careful — the supplier does not control the last mile and most of your variance is in it.
Careful — the supplier does not control the last mile and most of your variance is in it.
honest_syringe19 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.
Regional stock replaces an international lane with a domestic one. That is a structural change to the distribution, not a marginal improvement, and it is why the warehouse question matters more than the carrier question.
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Yes — regional stock is the single biggest variable and it barely gets mentioned outside this board.
rigid outer packaging is the cheapest quality signal there is