RE: hostas, for a change
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- Subject: RE: hostas, for a change
- From: D* N*
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:40:15 -0500
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Is there a program available that would tie zip codes to USDA zonal maps.
This seems like it would help organize packing and shipping schedules to
coincide with safe outdoor planting times for cold sensitive plants anywhere
in the USA. It would at least give you target dates.
Probably a very old idea.
Dan
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From: owner-hosta-open@mallorn.com
[o*@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of Chick
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:27 PM
To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: hostas, for a change
We do let the customer specify a ship period, but many of them don't do it.
The problem with encouraging the customer to call the date months in advance
is
that it ties your hands. If a customer in New York says ship the week of
May
15, he can count on getting them then even if it's snowing because we have
no
idea why he requested the date and can't second guess it. Some people have
second homes and are only there certain times, landscapers have schedules,
some
customers hire people to do their planting, and some people just pick a date
cause it sounds good. No way for me to tell, so the plants go out, and it I
can't ship then, they get a refund.
I would prefer to pick the date, but I really don't know when the weather
turns
in northern Indiana. Shipping late is not that big a problem, but shipping
early can be.
Chick
andrewl wrote:
> Chick,
> Why not mark the order with the customer's requested ship date? Seems
> fairly reasonable because as the shipper is pulling the orders, they
> (hopefully) observe when the customer's preferred receipt date is and away
> you go. Of course, there may be a basic flaw in my assumptions because
we
> now have to deal with people who believe English should be a second
> language, but that is a whole 'nother deal. If you have so many that it
> gets confusing (and I imagine you do), then "staging" orders by week to
> ship may have to be done. There are some problems with logistics in the
> business, but won't the customers help you with this one? Shouldn't they
> TELL provide a "ship no earlier than" date, putting the onus back on them?
>
> Andrew L.
>
> Chick wrote:
>
> > OK, here's a question for you guys that doesn't have anything to do with
> > Al and Dubya.
> >
> > We can ship plants to two people who live next door to each other and
> > one will tell us we shipped to early and the other will ask what took us
> > so long. When you order, or if you were to order, hostas by mail, when
> > would you like to have them shipped to you? When does spring come in
> > your area?
> >
> > Chick
> >
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