People bugging me about why we haven’t shipped their stuff. Everyday it seems the same or worse when I look at the news…
Fine here today (50) but will come back down to low 30s beginning of next week.
You just missed it. It wasn’t open very long.
ok in DC this week but an arctic freeze in store next week. I’ve already had one popsicle shipment so no west-east shipments for a while. I may have to stop buying from Last Bottle as they can’t hold shipments.
I won’t even think of shipping anything back east until March and April. It is very time-consuming to get a handle on everyone’s specific geographical area day after day, week after week, while most of the country other than the west has had some type of regular temperature or precipitation occurrence that either makes it risky or risks that the wine will get delayed. Just better all around to wait.
Thanks, Neal, hadn’t seen that one before. Only gives 5 day but that’s a good start.
I’ve been getting shipments off and on all winter to Missouri. Everything’s been fine. Even when WineBid decided to ship a case when it was under 15 degrees here. That was idiotic.
Someone (perhaps Neal) posted the UPS rail route in a previous thread (for UPS Ground). As I recall, east to west coast freight travels two routes. For the southern route (likely all California freight), it goes from southern California through the desert and southern states to Texas. Then to Chicago where everything gets put on trucks.
So east coast UPS Ground deliveries from California need to go through that cold section of the country from Texas to Chicago. Correct?
Snooze you looze: you just missed it Roberto. If you shipped last Monday (the 17th) it would arrive in the 13 original colonies the 24th, which would have been perfect. Where’s your weather app?!
Most of the wines in question won’t be ready to drink in this decade so it’s really academic but some people get anxious till they have their bottles in hand.
Yeah, better to bake in their house rather than kept in temp-controlled store-age!
I didn’t know Lambrusco aged that long . . .
Got my Jemrose from Berserker Day here in Virginia today. Everything looks tip-top, but they did seem to thread the needle in terms of the winter weather.
Supposed to have high temps in the teens with lows around zero in the latter part of next week.
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nice weather here, but it’s that whole “places in the middle” thing that worries me
I’m holding on the midwest & northeast.
Wise choice, Will. I think for some people who are not in our business, they do not realize the lead time required to “ensure” that the wine is shipped and delivered under the best circumstances. I know for myself, for that part of the country, I need pretty much a 2 week window in which to obtain the buyer’s ok to ship, enter in the system, have it picked, packed and on a truck, and ultimately delivered to someone prepared to sign for it. It is not rocket science, but it does require a bit of forethought, time, and planning.
Jay, I have had the exact opposite experience with LB - when I ask them they hold the wines and frequently do so - as after one of their marathons - automatically. I’ve had zero problems to-date with them; sorry to hear you have had problems.
Doing the shipping in-house, I basically set-up my own shipping company 2x/yr. Space at the warehouse, hiring a crew to help, stickers from FedEx printed, packing slips printed (then matching them up), materials ordered, calling distribution centers to make sure trailers are dropped & picked back up! – it takes a solid 10 days lead time (with many late nights & weekends) to a committed date. Stopping that train once it has left the station is difficult, at best.
And it is not like any of us have an endless supply of wine to replace damaged wine. We really only have one chance to get this right (or as right as we can).