Wine means many things to many people status, fear, success, ‘you’ve arrived’, enjoyment, good times, tradition and even ceremony. My experience is still a lot of intimidation with respect to wine. Limited and often restricted distribution States of wine: sparkling, still and fortified wines Wine simple to enjoy and yet profoundly complex because of many factors: I have been a former national wine marketing manager for a large off-premise food and wine retailer (280+ retail locations in 30 US States) the love for wine taught me the good practice of using the best methodologies to right side a business which unto itself is complex. I am passionate about the subject as well as art, music, lyric writing and poetry, history, sciences, organization management, and making things less complex © 2017 James Melendez / James the Wine Guy- All Rights Reserved – for my original Content, logo, brand name, rating, rating graphic and award and designs of James the Wine GuyJames the Wine Guy also on Facebook, Twitter and most major social medias. What is your preferred carrier? Let me know by listing in comments.ĭemystifying Wine…One Bottle at a Time from all wine regions around the world. I am considering revising my sample policy to eliminate samples by FedEx–most likely decrease samples I receipt but the heartache of the FedEx dance is a pain and just a waste of my time.

Hence FedEx hasn’t gotten the concept of more efficiency creates not just happy customers but more robust profitability-apparently someone hasn’t gotten the memo. I have had many occasion where the “package is here” when the FedEx office team said it wasn’t. It is less science more Byzantium when trying to collect a package. So I spend an inordinate amount of time on the phone with FedEx and ever more time trying to collect in person. When I call 1800GOFEDEX they ask for the tracking number as most of the time the DT (door tags they have generated doesn’t work) –someone keeps forgetting to scan them in. and worse of all I don’t get paid for it but for a better customer experience. FedEx makes it hard–they need to look at the 5S for not just making work easier–it is a job for me to get packages…. I cannot recall the last FedEx delivery person-possibly many months… feels like years. I dread the FedEx door tags dreaded because that is all I ever get. Because of the ever increasing shipment DTC (Direct-to-Consumer) UPS has understood the importance of getting packaging to customers on first try. UPS has no doubt looked at their data set and have understood ways to optimize it’s deliveries. Getting your package at the time of it’s intended delivery date versus a carrier driving around countless packages, many times to many location wasting space and fuel and increasing the carbon footprint. UPS incremental improvement makes business sense. Like clockwork–I even know my primary UPS delivery person by his first name. Not a problem–I like my home more than the UPS main office in San Francisco. I started getting my packages delivered to me in the evening. I stopped having to get my packages redirected. I use to complete the redirection routinely and then something changed dramatically. I had to get my UPS shipments redirected to the UPS Main Office frequently. And then suddenly something that happened UPS took a very different approach to their delivery business and my experience has never been the same. Just a few years ago I had a nearly opposite view of both carriers than I have today.įederal Express use to be my preferred shipper that I would get wine shipped to me.

The two main carriers are UPS and Federal Express for wines that I receipt. I get a fair number of bottles of wine delivered to my house.

I see these all the time… yawn… does UPS even need to print these for their business? UPS … nowadays it is hardly a contest–it is a no brainer.

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