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| | | Author: | unordained  | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2015 16:12 | | Subject: | international shipping time chart | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Could we get a chart showing recent (1 month?) country-to-country shipping times,
calculated as the difference between date "shipped" and the lesser of "received"
or "completed", preferably as a distribution, not just an average?
I realize that's complicated by the many ways sellers can label their shipping
providers (fedex, dhl, national postal system, etc.) and options (expedited,
standard, surface). Ignoring those distinctions, I would expect to see these
various options show up in the chart as bumps (modes) in the distribution, indicating
packages are likely to make it from country X to Y either in 3 days (probably
expedited) or 12 days (standard) or a long-tail with a slight bump around 50
days (probably surface). The reader can come to his/her own conclusions.
It wouldn't be perfect, but I see the question popup in the forum frequently
enough, and I wonder myself when buying from overseas, and it seems like the
database should already have the data (at least grossly.)
If we could see the distribution over time (one-month intervals) we could infer
some basic trends -- are the labor disputes on the US west coast, or the
weather on the US east coast, actually affecting shipping times the way we suspect
they are, etc.
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| | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2015 16:22 | | Subject: | Re: international shipping time chart | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| +1!
In Suggestions, unordained writes:
| | Could we get a chart showing recent (1 month?) country-to-country shipping times,
calculated as the difference between date "shipped" and the lesser of "received"
or "completed", preferably as a distribution, not just an average?
I realize that's complicated by the many ways sellers can label their shipping
providers (fedex, dhl, national postal system, etc.) and options (expedited,
standard, surface). Ignoring those distinctions, I would expect to see these
various options show up in the chart as bumps (modes) in the distribution, indicating
packages are likely to make it from country X to Y either in 3 days (probably
expedited) or 12 days (standard) or a long-tail with a slight bump around 50
days (probably surface). The reader can come to his/her own conclusions.
It wouldn't be perfect, but I see the question popup in the forum frequently
enough, and I wonder myself when buying from overseas, and it seems like the
database should already have the data (at least grossly.)
If we could see the distribution over time (one-month intervals) we could infer
some basic trends -- are the labor disputes on the US west coast, or the
weather on the US east coast, actually affecting shipping times the way we suspect
they are, etc.
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| | | | | Author: | Brettj666 | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2015 16:26 | | Subject: | Re: international shipping time chart | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, unordained writes:
| | Could we get a chart showing recent (1 month?) country-to-country shipping times,
calculated as the difference between date "shipped" and the lesser of "received"
or "completed", preferably as a distribution, not just an average?
I realize that's complicated by the many ways sellers can label their shipping
providers (fedex, dhl, national postal system, etc.) and options (expedited,
standard, surface). Ignoring those distinctions, I would expect to see these
various options show up in the chart as bumps (modes) in the distribution, indicating
packages are likely to make it from country X to Y either in 3 days (probably
expedited) or 12 days (standard) or a long-tail with a slight bump around 50
days (probably surface). The reader can come to his/her own conclusions.
It wouldn't be perfect, but I see the question popup in the forum frequently
enough, and I wonder myself when buying from overseas, and it seems like the
database should already have the data (at least grossly.)
If we could see the distribution over time (one-month intervals) we could infer
some basic trends -- are the labor disputes on the US west coast, or the
weather on the US east coast, actually affecting shipping times the way we suspect
they are, etc.
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I wouldn't really attempt an undertaking like this because there are so many
factors
Weather,
Time of year
Politics
work stoppages.
Setting a schedule may imply you have some control over it and when service suffers,
the customer looks to you, not the postal factors.
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USA, Oklahoma
Netherlands, Overijssel
Canada, Ontario