Unsolicited advice is always the best!
9So now that the end of the inaugural Joe-raton is in sight (and I think we’re all relieved to hear that @KoolHandJoe isn’t changing jobs! )…
And since I now have 3 IRKs and some Mophies “processing”…
Here’s a suggestion - go ahead and ship everything in one (or seven, in case there’s a lot 
) box. I really don’t care about timing, so save yourselves some shipping costs, time, resources, and Joe’s sanity (what’s left after today) and combine shipments.
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Good idea
I do think Meh could save some cashy cash by offering to ship all orders once a month. And they could reward us with a trackr none of us wants and yet many of us still order!
/giphy i so agree
I better get three cardboard boxes for my three irks. The box is half the value.
Also, seems like it would be more work for the warehouse folks.
@medz The other half is in the Texas air bags or the bubble wrap?
@medz I seem to be constantly moving (us, my dad - twice, my in-laws - twice, friends, us again soon I hope) that, yeah, the boxes, including whatever packing material I get, DO have added value!
I suspect part of the work of prepping each daily offer is lining up a shipping box/method to go with it.
They’d have to use up a lot of bubblewrap unless they could choose a specific box size for every individual unique shipment.
Considering how quickly some of the Irks have shipped, I’d wager they’re often pre-packed. So to combine multiples they’d just be putting smaller boxes in a bigger box, which would likely cost even more to ship. It may be viable for non-Irk items though.
@cinoclav I thought of that, but actually came to the opposite conclusion (might be better for IRKs than regular items) given how my IRKs have been packed (i.e. not well) meaning that if there are 3 still “processing” just dumping them all into one box would probably all fit. Or putting the other single items I bought into the same box (obviously depending on what it is - last time it was just some flashlights, this time some Mophies).
I’m not saying it would work for everything and it would be a change in current workflows (i.e. labor costs), but it might be worth investigating. Amazon often offers a “combine all items into a single box” option that might take longer but does save on packaging and shipping costs. Meh could just look at your orders for the day (thinking especially on “__-athons”) and see if some additional labor to combine would be worthwhile.
I guess it comes down to when the items are boxed, as you rightly point out. If it is in advance of the day as you suggest, then the added labor may not make sense. If IRKs are done as I envision (a bunch of boxes on the floor and people just throwing random things in each from a bunch of bins - don’t burst my bubble with reality), then it might work.
But hey, Shawn thinks it’s a good idea, so I’ll just go with that!
@cinoclav @ybmuG it likely depends on how their WMS system is configured and how/when orders are dropped/processed. Does it have the ability to pull the entire days orders and pool them together? Or is it a single item pull? Likely consolidating multiple IRKS over multiple days would be much harder.
Just my two cents…
@cinoclav @tinamarie1974 Yeah - I’m just thinking across a single day. Multiple days would be much harder. I was just saying now that I have 3 in rapid succession and none have shipped, maybe if they had fewer individual shipments going out the door, that might actually improve efficiency.
And it’s worth WAY more than $0.02!