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1.
Orders are downloaded from the Internet, processed, assigned a ship date and
the physical paperwork is filled by ship week. Luckily, in shipping by
zones in busy Spring, the shipments manage to balance themselves out fairly evenly and we
aren't overloaded in any one week.
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2.
Monday morning, a list is handed out listing all plants to be shipped the
following week, alphabetically by greenhouse (this is a greenhouse in
January with plants getting ready for your garden!) |
They're pulled all week and are brought to the
shipping greenhouse
by golf cart, (22 trays to a cart, so it takes many trips). During
spring it takes 5 days + to pull all the plants for orders for the next
week. |
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3. In the shipping house, the plants from various houses are collated into
orders. Orders are placed on tables by the day they're scheduled to
ship. (There's a similar set of tables on the opposite side of the house as
well!) All plants are prepped and tidied up. Orders to the West
Coast are dipped in chemicals to meet West Coast's stringent requirements. |
And
the other set of tables with plants waiting to go to your garden. As you can
see, the majority of these plants are up and growing would NOT want to be
exposed to freezing weather in transit.
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5.
Monday morning comes bright and early and this portable file box of orders
for the week, (now crammed full) gets matched with it's plants and turned
into boxed orders.
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6. On Monday (a week after we started pulling) we start wrapping the plants for
shipment. (And the pullers at the same time start pulling plants
for the following week!) Our staff carefully wrapping each plant for
shipment.
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7.
After being wrapped and boxed, address labels attached, boxes are weighed and postage
is applied. |
8.
By 1:00 pm, the first boxes are ready for pick by the Post Office.
There will be another load this size for the afternoon pick up. At the
peak of the busy season, 8 loads like the above leave in a week!
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