New Summer Upgrade Shipping Prices
2Heads up: New Summer Upgrade Shipping Pricing
Due to increased freight costs, the faster with ice packs service being offered this summer has increased in price.
Small lot Summer Shipping + Ice Packs will now be an additional $20.00 and Cases will now be an additional $40.
We still like the regular summer shipping option at no extra cost (but that’s just us).
For more details on the summer shipping schedule, please see this New Summer Shipping Options thread.
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The summer shipping did not help my batch, it arrived warm. Just to compare, another order with regular shipping arrived cool to the touch. It was either same day or within one day of each other but different driver.
I really recommend the “Hold for Pickup” FexEx redirect option. This won’t solve all Summer heat problems but it does minimize time in the truck on delivery day. Also you don’t need to be at your address to sign for it but can go in any time in the next week to pick up your box at the nice air-conditioned FedEx Office location.
I’ve been doing this for most of my shipments. I pick a local FedEx Office (used to be Kinkos in many places) where they are a staffed FedEx location. I don’t use the ones where you use grocery stores and private pack-and-ship stores. Generally on the morning of delivery, the truck from the distribution hub usually goes to the Office locations first before their other routes.
@pmarin
I fully agree although it is harder to catch the shipments in time to put a hold on them during summer shipping season, due to the fact that you don’t see tracking until they are handed off from the refrigerated truck to FedEx. Some people actually use the FedEx office as their shipping address to ensure they don’t miss the window of opportunity.
@chipgreen @pmarin If you use the “delivery manager” thing you get an automated email when something with your name and address gets entered into the system even if it’s before shipping.
@klezman @pmarin
Yes, that’s what I do. They send me a text message and then I re-direct the shipment.
@pmarin I usually do the “hold for pickup” at my local Walgreen’s and have never had a problem. With my current enroute order tho, the shipper placed some kind of delivery restriction on it so FedEx cannot deliver to Walgreen’s!! I’ve been trying to get the order redirected for 3 days now and finally someone actually dug deep enough to figure out what the issue was! Now I have to try to have the shipper remove the restriction so it can be held at Walgreens. Has anyone else had this problem?? If this kind of thing is a common occurrence, I won’t be ordering any more!
@mehmerized Yes I did have that problem – not on a Wine shipment from here, but on a Dell laptop. I guess due to frequent fraud with online orders, Dell places a restriction so that you cannot redirect (or even delay) your delivery. I knew I was going to be out for the week the shipment was scheduled to arrive, so I tried to delay. I had to go through a special request to Dell (not to FedEx), and they had to notify FedEx it was OK to delay or redirect my delivery. when it came, there was extra hand-written paperwork taped to it with the whole log of Dell and FedEx figuring out how to do this manually, since they apparently restricted the “easy” way to do it.
@pmarin What I don’t understand is why Wine Country would suddenly put a restriction on the order when they never have before. I’ve always had it rerouted. I emailed support so hopefully they will have a solution.
@mehmerized @pmarin
To me it was unclear if this was a wine shipment or something else.
@rjquillin My situation is with a wine shipment purchased here.
@pmarin Agreed. Been shipping to my local FedEx Office all summer using the standard option. Haven’t had a single issue and wine has been tasting great.
The last time I used the special summer shipping this year, one of the freezer packs ruptured and was nearly empty. The gel leaked all over two of the bottles. The bottle temperature measured by my reliable IR thermometer was the same as the temperature on my digital outdoor thermometer. With the new additional special summer shipping costs, the total SSSC moves the wine deals out of the great deal category, especially when I’m overloaded with wine!
Agreed! Even when the freezer packs don’t rupture, the wine still arrives warm
The highs have been around 100 lately here in east TX so when the last Fedex ‘standard’ delivery came to the house I took a bottle straight out of the Styrofoam and scanned it with my cooking thermometer it showed 81 which did not seem too bad - did not feel warm. Might be different if you live in Phoenix.