[Vendor] MKM communication is slow but the material has been fine, five orders
Xi'an, five orders, roughly a year. Two things are true simultaneously and I have stopped trying to reconcile them. The material: fine every time. Two independent tests, 98.4% and 98.6%, both against a 98.5% claim. Never once substituted a compound without asking first — twice they told me something was out of stock…
The other thing with this vendor is geography and it is nobody's fault. Xi'an is inland. Add two days versus the Shanghai cluster on comparable lanes, and add more than that to Australia — I had 15 days on a quoted 10.
Inland origin plus a long haul is just a slow combination. It matters most in July.
and the variance is wider, not just the mean. inland legs add a handoff and every handoff adds tail risk.
which is the actual reason to care. a longer mean is fine for dry powder. a fatter tail is what exhausts the pack before the last leg.
correct, and the powder still survives it. i keep saying this and people keep grieving over liquid gel packs.
mine arrived warm twice and tested fine both times. i have stopped panicking about it.