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| | | Author: | Leftoverbricks  | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 11:44 | | Subject: | Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 180 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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| | | | | Author: | bobnikolov | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 11:51 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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Guess Saturday and Sunday is for family and friends. Walks, traveling, etc.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 12:02 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, bobnikolov writes:
| | In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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Guess Saturday and Sunday is for family and friends. Walks, traveling, etc.
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And Mondays are for hobby or work?
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| | | | | Author: | Mike_89 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 12:06 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Re: Why most orders on Mondays?
May most of your Customers think that you deserve a work free weekend too ?
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 12:10 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Note to myself: if ever I order from Leftoverbricks, do it on a Wednesday. Martin
needs to exercise more than once a week.
 
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| | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 12:20 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Logically thinking here, if I spend most of the time I use on my hobby on Saturdays
and Sundays, I'd want any Lego pieces I bought to arrive before then so I
can use them. Therefore I'd order on a Monday to give the most time for the
pieces to arrive before the weekend.
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| | | | | | | Author: | psusaxman2000 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 15:58 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
| | Logically thinking here, if I spend most of the time I use on my hobby on Saturdays
and Sundays, I'd want any Lego pieces I bought to arrive before then so I
can use them. Therefore I'd order on a Monday to give the most time for the
pieces to arrive before the weekend.
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Additionally, if I'm working on my project, sorting or cataloging stuff,
I'll spend the weekend building lists and such for needed or missing parts.
Then Sunday night or Monday looking for sellers that work and submitting orders.
Granted that's not always the case, but could be another scenario.
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| | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 12:23 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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I agree that's odd, and most of mine actually are on Sunday evening. Monday
and Tuesday are sort of the cooldown days for my shop where I have a change to
catch up with everything. It can't be a timezone thing either, because BL's
timestamps are earlier rather than later.
As for this particular Monday: A lot of people are staying indoors these days
because of the storm and it caused a huge surge in orders for me, like a lockdown
kind of effect.
Maybe some business buyers who were missing parts for their weekend orders? 
I can't really think of a better possible reason...
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| | | | | Author: | hedgehog_bricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 14:39 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
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For me, Sundays are the busiest day making up about 19% of my orders (50% more
orders than on a Monday).
Wednesdays are the 2nd busiest day (15% of all orders) and Thursdays the quietest
(12%).
Jonathan
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| | | | | Author: | tonnic | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 15:24 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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For me it is not getting the orders on monday but most of the time monday is
‘shippingday’.
I receive the orders during the weekend, pack them and ship them on monday.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 18:32 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, tonnic writes:
| | In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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For me it is not getting the orders on monday but most of the time monday is
‘shippingday’.
I receive the orders during the weekend, pack them and ship them on monday.
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Same here, and it's actually the usual pattern for webshops. People tend
to do their shopping in the weekend. (But Lego parts orders are complicated so
maybe in the OP's case people just finalize them a little later)
Useful tip: When it's really busy (holiday season), it could be smart to
send out orders on Tuesday. Mondays are sometimes so busy for PostNL that they
leave some of the Monday bags untouched until a week later to avoid a domino
effect. So shipping out on Tuesday in busy times can actually make things arrive
faster.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 18:39 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Teup writes:
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Useful tip: When it's really busy (holiday season), it could be smart to
send out orders on Tuesday. Mondays are sometimes so busy for PostNL that they
leave some of the Monday bags untouched until a week later to avoid a domino
effect. So shipping out on Tuesday in busy times can actually make things arrive
faster.
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And now everybody will post on Tuesday, so Monday will be okay again… or maybe
better post on Wednesday
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 18:45 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, Teup writes:
| | […]
Useful tip: When it's really busy (holiday season), it could be smart to
send out orders on Tuesday. Mondays are sometimes so busy for PostNL that they
leave some of the Monday bags untouched until a week later to avoid a domino
effect. So shipping out on Tuesday in busy times can actually make things arrive
faster.
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And now everybody will post on Tuesday, so Monday will be okay again… or maybe
better post on Wednesday
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Actually yes that's right, what they told me is that it's Monday "and
sometimes Tuesday"... so Wednesday is safest But for me so far, almost all
of my delayed orders can be traced back to Monday batches 
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| | | | | Author: | leggodtshop | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 16:26 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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Monday is not a busy day at work? So best spent (work) time for your hobby purchases
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 19:07 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | BrickLink is my job. |
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 19:59 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| I just crunched the numbers and Sunday is actually my busiest day, followed by
Saturday and then Monday. However, they're all pretty close, roughly speaking.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 23:53 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, wildchicken13 writes:
| | I just crunched the numbers and Sunday is actually my busiest day, followed by
Saturday and then Monday. However, they're all pretty close, roughly speaking.
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Thanks for the graph! Maybe I'll do the same.
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