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 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
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popsicle (6664)

Location:  USA, Washington
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~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good
 


 Author: Brickitty View Messages Posted By Brickitty
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:01
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Location:  USA, Colorado
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In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I love orders that come in just before I go to the post office every
day (2:00-4:00 MST) because I can really impress with the speed. My current record
is 6 minutes from order time to Drive-Thru & tracking, left right away, dropped
off at the post office 10 minutes after order time.
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:14
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popsicle (6664)

Location:  USA, Washington
Member Since Contact Type Status
Feb 21, 2006 Contact Member Seller
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Seller Ships to My Country Store: ConstrucToys
In Shipping, Brickitty writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I love orders that come in just before I go to the post office every
day (2:00-4:00 MST) because I can really impress with the speed. My current record
is 6 minutes from order time to Drive-Thru & tracking, left right away, dropped
off at the post office 10 minutes after order time.

Now that is impressive. Well done! Think you got me beat too. Damnit!

Even better though, is not having to travel, but handing it off to your well-timed
mail carrier just outside your front door, as we did today
 Author: Brickitty View Messages Posted By Brickitty
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:41
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Location:  USA, Colorado
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In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  In Shipping, Brickitty writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I love orders that come in just before I go to the post office every
day (2:00-4:00 MST) because I can really impress with the speed. My current record
is 6 minutes from order time to Drive-Thru & tracking, left right away, dropped
off at the post office 10 minutes after order time.

Now that is impressive. Well done! Think you got me beat too. Damnit!

Even better though, is not having to travel, but handing it off to your well-timed
mail carrier just outside your front door, as we did today

Now that's convenient! I've never done that, partially because our local
post office is only 2 minutes away. It's tiny and grandfathered in without
a lot of modern post office amenities, but it gets the packages to Denver's
USPS distribution center even faster than the bigger post offices I've used
in the past.
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:48
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Location:  USA, Washington
Member Since Contact Type Status
Feb 21, 2006 Contact Member Seller
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Seller Ships to My Country Store: ConstrucToys
In Shipping, Brickitty writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  In Shipping, Brickitty writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I love orders that come in just before I go to the post office every
day (2:00-4:00 MST) because I can really impress with the speed. My current record
is 6 minutes from order time to Drive-Thru & tracking, left right away, dropped
off at the post office 10 minutes after order time.

Now that is impressive. Well done! Think you got me beat too. Damnit!

Even better though, is not having to travel, but handing it off to your well-timed
mail carrier just outside your front door, as we did today

Now that's convenient! I've never done that, partially because our local
post office is only 2 minutes away. It's tiny and grandfathered in without
a lot of modern post office amenities, but it gets the packages to Denver's
USPS distribution center even faster than the bigger post offices I've used
in the past.

Those POs are often great to work with in my experience living in rural Utah
 Author: macebobo View Messages Posted By macebobo
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:15
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They are a repeat customer too. Nice job Cory.
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
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  They are a repeat customer too. Nice job Cory.

Damn! Did see that... Should've taken my time

Thanks, John
 Author: sasquatch_eater View Messages Posted By sasquatch_eater
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:19
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Location:  USA, Ohio
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In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I don't know my best time but it was probably nowhere below an
hour. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why you use military time?

--Claude
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:30
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Location:  USA, Washington
Member Since Contact Type Status
Feb 21, 2006 Contact Member Seller
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Seller Ships to My Country Store: ConstrucToys
In Shipping, sasquatch_eater writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I don't know my best time but it was probably nowhere below an
hour. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why you use military time?

--Claude

It'll happen. With increased orders numbers the planets will eventually align
and you'll get that time worthy of boast. Look forward to hearing about too.
 Author: sasquatch_eater View Messages Posted By sasquatch_eater
 Posted: Aug 29, 2023 19:51
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Location:  USA, Ohio
Member Since Contact Type Status
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Seller Ships to My Country Store: The Baboon's repository
In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  In Shipping, sasquatch_eater writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I don't know my best time but it was probably nowhere below an
hour. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why you use military time?

--Claude

It'll happen. With increased orders numbers the planets will eventually align
and you'll get that time worthy of boast. Look forward to hearing about too.
 
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
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popsicle (6664)

Location:  USA, Washington
Member Since Contact Type Status
Feb 21, 2006 Contact Member Seller
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Seller Ships to My Country Store: ConstrucToys
In Shipping, sasquatch_eater writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  In Shipping, sasquatch_eater writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I don't know my best time but it was probably nowhere below an
hour. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why you use military time?

--Claude

It'll happen. With increased orders numbers the planets will eventually align
and you'll get that time worthy of boast. Look forward to hearing about too.

Then again, rare occurrences as such alignments are not always good omens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc3RATh3snI

Didn't we experience a planetary alignment earlier this year? Was it March?
Which would be apropos, Mars being among those in the planetary lineup...
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Location:  USA, Colorado
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Seller Ships to My Country Store: Brickitty
In Shipping, sasquatch_eater writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I don't know my best time but it was probably nowhere below an
hour. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why you use military time?

--Claude

Can't speak for Popsicle, but I use 24-hour time too. The primary reason
is that all of my order info goes into a gigantic spreadsheet, and then I can
easily generate cool stats like a bar graph of the amount of orders I get during
each hour of the day. My partner and I enjoy working on the spreadsheet together
and coming up with new ways to visualize the data.

My favorite so far involved inputting state populations from the 2020 census,
dividing each state by the total U.S. population to determine each state's
percentage of the population, doing the same with the percentage of orders we
get from each state, and then juxtaposing those on a graph so we can see which
states are over/under the expected sales based on population. Stats are so much
fun!
 Author: sasquatch_eater View Messages Posted By sasquatch_eater
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Location:  USA, Ohio
Member Since Contact Type Status
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Seller Ships to My Country Store: The Baboon's repository
In Shipping, Brickitty writes:
  In Shipping, sasquatch_eater writes:
  In Shipping, popsicle writes:
  ~ Buyer places order using IC @ 14:15 PST

~ Order handed to USPS with acceptance scan @ 14:43 PST

~ Order status marked as shipped and Thank you Drive Thru with tracking
link provided @ 14:48 PST

Put another way: 28 minutes after the order is placed, it’s on it's way to
the buyer. Thirty three minutes after order, they get their already activated
tracking link, and Thanks

Not our best time, but pretty good

Very nice! I don't know my best time but it was probably nowhere below an
hour. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why you use military time?

--Claude

Can't speak for Popsicle, but I use 24-hour time too. The primary reason
is that all of my order info goes into a gigantic spreadsheet, and then I can
easily generate cool stats like a bar graph of the amount of orders I get during
each hour of the day. My partner and I enjoy working on the spreadsheet together
and coming up with new ways to visualize the data.

My favorite so far involved inputting state populations from the 2020 census,
dividing each state by the total U.S. population to determine each state's
percentage of the population, doing the same with the percentage of orders we
get from each state, and then juxtaposing those on a graph so we can see which
states are over/under the expected sales based on population. Stats are so much
fun!

Interesting, I use it because a while ago I changed it on my computer to see
if I could remember it and just never changed it back.

--Claude
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And for any of y'all who are curious about those some of those stats:

Most orders in any half-hour of the day: 17:00-17:30 MST (19:00-19:30 EST)

Least orders in any half-hour of the day: 5:00-5:30 MST (7:00-7:30 EST), exactly
12 hours earlier than the most orders

Most orders for a state compared to expected orders by population: Virginia (4.44%
   2.58%)

Least orders for a state compared to expected orders by population: Texas (6.27%


Busiest day of the week: Monday, and it's not even close

Slowest day of the week: Tuesday
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In Shipping, Brickitty writes:
  And for any of y'all who are curious about those some of those stats:

Most orders in any half-hour of the day: 17:00-17:30 MST (19:00-19:30 EST)

Least orders in any half-hour of the day: 5:00-5:30 MST (7:00-7:30 EST), exactly
12 hours earlier than the most orders

Most orders for a state compared to expected orders by population: Virginia (4.44%
   2.58%)

Least orders for a state compared to expected orders by population: Texas (6.27%


Busiest day of the week: Monday, and it's not even close

Slowest day of the week: Tuesday

Oops, the formatting didn't work there. The states are Virginia (4.55% instead
of expected 2.58%) and Texas (6.27% instead of expected 8.75%).