[Discussion] can we stop arguing about transit time until somebody posts a number
Genuine question, and the title is the question: can we stop arguing about transit time until somebody posts a number. Ordered from the warehouse in Poland instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 8 days, door to door. Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the…
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
rigid outer packaging is the cheapest quality signal there is
Agreed. Reporting by lane rather than by supplier is what made the tables here actually predictive.
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Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.
Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.
reship policy in writing before you order
Four observations is not a distribution.
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.
Yes — median rather than best case. The fastest anybody ever got is not a plan.
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation. Worth posting, worth separating.
Same. TFC quoted 14 days on my lane and it landed at 4, which is exactly what you want from a quote.
ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse
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.
That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.
Same lane, four orders, 13 to 11 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.
Posted my first lane report here without the month and got asked for it. Fair, and the table is better for the fussiness.
What was the packaging like on arrival?
origin, destination, carrier, month — post all four or the report is noise