Comment · Thu, September 10, 2020 · ND Owner
Should I be concerned about the temperature in Tempe? (the Tempe-ture?)
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redditinface · 10 points
I'd like to put in an ND order and just noticed that the temperature in Tempe is forecast to be 100+ every day for the next couple of weeks. I have no doubt ND stores everything at reasonable temps, but I worry about peak or sustained temps in transit. Does Fedex store packages at reasonable temps, and/or move packages out of AZ pretty quickly, and/or are most ND products stable at 100+? Are there particular days that are better to order on, in terms of a package quickly moving out of state?
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
LOL, 100^F is rookie numbers here. We consider that a beautiful day. This last Saturday my car said 117^F when I left my house. I was out in in all day moving stuff to a new house. It was hot, but I was born here, so I am used to it. This shit is just a normal part of life here, and all our buildings are built for it. We have like 100 tons of AC capacity at our facility, across around 15 AC units. We have our walls insulated, ceilings insulated, double/triple pane windows, etc. All our vehicles have AC, including our delivery van. We also store the delivery van inside our warehouse. So it does not sit out in the sun. We have insulated loading docks that semi trucks pull up to, so nothing has to go out in the heart. I strategically placed our facility less than a mile from the FedEx distribution facility, USPS facility, and UPS drop off. We are the last stop on our FedEx driver's route. So he loads up our packages and drives right around the corner straight to their temperature-controlled warehouse. At the end of the day, we load up our AC-cooled delivery van inside our warehouse, then drive our out automatic roll-up door to deliver the end of day shipments. Nothing ever sits out in the heat. Hell, I don't even sit out in it! LOL. I have an opener in my car, and I drive up our loading ramp with my personal car and park inside our warehouse. I just park inside our warehouse by our delivery van. Then I just walk inside to our offices through the warehouse. I ain't parking outside!
So heat is just a part of life here, and we plan around it. We never let products or packages just sit out in the heat, and we don't let our delivery/pickup drivers do it, either. We are around the corner from almost all the services we use. So it goes direct from our temperature-controlled warehouse to theirs in air conditioned trucks/vans. Since heat is just a normal here, we plan for it. The best part about AZ is no humidity. That's very good for product stability. Humidity is really the worst thing in the world.