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c/intlshipping·submitted 9 months ago by u/fabio_lehtinen

[Meta] the EMS rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining

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Putting this to the board: the EMS rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route. Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a year. The quote held; the variance was all in the last…

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u/yannick_petrov41 points·9 months ago

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.

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u/fabio_lehtinenOP29 points·9 months ago

no tracking numbers, ever

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u/ireland_drugs_pay8 points·9 months ago

ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse

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u/lina_adebayo12 points·9 months ago

This. A quoted lead time that holds is worth more than a fast one that does not.

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u/tove_ogunleye7 points·9 months ago

This.

lina_adebayo is right about regional stock. It changes the shape of the distribution, not just the mean.

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u/tired_ledger_ftw14 points·9 months ago

two identical orders a week apart is the cheapest experiment available

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