I’ll be there anyway, I’m on a couple of panels 👩‍🌾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🥦

@Laurence Jarrett-Kerr ah, Dave wanted to join from the field

@Laurence Jarrett-Kerr he’s not set up on Skool yet, I’ll try and join in a sec, just sorting the kids

We’ve recently started printing labels by delivery route order, rather than size first. Boxes packed backwards highest number to lowest, pack 8 regular size boxes into a stack, highest number on the bottom THEN pick up TWO boxes at a time and stack onto the trolley. It’s best for the packer not to think about the numbers because it messes your brain… if you follow the method it can’t go wrong… Sometimes there’s a number gap because we have larger boxes that don’t stack with these mini, small and medium. The large boxes go in first in the driver side side door in two piles, low numbers at the top. Delivery Driver packs into the van picking up two at a time starting at 51ontop of 52 at the front left of the van behind passenger seat and 49 on top of 50 to the right of that and then 47 ontop of 48, then next is the large boxes that were put in first. There are three more pairs left to right one space back, then 4 more pairs, and then 4 more pairs, then remaining pairs do another layer, depending on how big the delivery route is and if there’s a collection point delivered on that route. This way the next box is always accessible to the driver and you aren’t left with tall stacks of boxes at the end of the route that fall over because they aren’t supported by the other stacks. This also makes a really great space for the empty returned crates to go because by delivery 2, the right hand side is slightly offset backwards because of the large boxes and leaves a gap that supports them in a tall stack so they don’t fall on the veg boxes. I should get up at 5am and do a van packing video, but not much chance of that happening!

I’ve always thought about making a sticker that says “sorry we were out of …. We’ve given you this item instead” and sticking it to the item, not for extras, but for veg items when they need something swapped. It’s always the same collection point which we pack last that a couple of people might miss out on the scheduled item. But now we have a market we can over order/ harvest a little in hopes of selling it there so it happens less.