Direct Shipping..the show must go on!

Artisan Media has recently partnered with Pack N Ship Direct to provide our digital media services to Sonoma and Napa wineries. We are actively working with Pack N Ship Direct to help their winery clients optimize their digital marketing strategies and move more wine via trade and consumer direct channels.

Recently I became particularly interested in how PNSD helps their winery clients to ship in the summer heat as most wineries shy away from shipping between July and September. The reality is that their wines are safer in Pack N Ship Direct's trucks than they are in most distributor trucks and warehouses. Below is more information on the program and FAQs.

Please contact Shelley McClure for additional information.

Shelley McClure | Office Manager | Direct: 707-838-2203 ext. 31 | shelley@vynapse.com| www.vynapse.com

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FAQs: Temperature Control Shipping
 
What is the EXTRA cost?????  NOTHING!!!  The cost for shipping with this service is the same cost as you ship UPS ground.
 
We think everyone is going to love this service. There is no extra cost to you.  You can ship orders ground instead of air and the wine will ship cross country at 55 degrees!
 
An additional plus that we have found is that since the packages go through less handling from the couriers and do not go through all the different hubs, there has been less damage to the packages.
 
Here is how it works:
 
Our trucking service VinShip is currently running a shipment out of our warehouse approximately every other Friday.  We have both a Northern and Southern route, temperature control @ 55 degrees.  Warehouse hubs are in Illinois & New York for the Northern route and the hubs are Texas & Florida for the Southern route.  We have made arrangements with these warehouses for UPS for pick up from these four locations to deliver the remainder of the trip what the call “the last mile”.
 
The trucks leave the Windsor Warehouse on Friday and travel through the weekend to their first destination.  After the pallets are unloaded at the first hub, they then continue to the second hub directly.
 
Attached is the Temperature Control Shipping Map.  This shows the states that orders are shipping to and what warehouse location they will be trucked to.  We have determined from each drop off location that once UPS picks up, most delivery points from there are 1-2 days.  There are a few rare exceptions that may be 3 days for delivery.
 
If this is something you are interested in and would like an order package to ship all you need to do is add to the special instructions “Please ship Temperature Control” and the package will be included in the next truck shipment.  If you have a specific scheduled ship date, please specify that as well in the special instructions “Please ship on the Temperature Control truck leaving on August 7th.”
 
As volumes increase, this service will be opening up to a weekly (and possibly shipping Wednesday’s or Thursday’s) service and potentially more hub locations. At this time we are using only the UPS service, but again as volumes increase, we will be able to open this up to FedEx as well.  We hope you will take advantage of this service.

Here is another exciting service: Shipping with Ice Packs
 
We have ice packs available to ship in your packages.
 
These are special formula base ice packs.  Ice packs can keep the wine cool up to 2-3 days. (This time is extended if the packages are traveling in the temperature control trucks through part of the shipment). They can be used in pulp packaging, but do have better success in Styrofoam packaging.
 
The price for the ice packs would be between $2.00 - $3.00 per package (not per order since some orders have multiple packages) depending on package size.
 
The quantity of ice packs used in each package would vary depending on the number of bottles per package. 24cc Ice Packs stay cool for 2-3 days

We hope you find these features as exciting as we do, and will find them a valuable asset in customer retention and increasing your sales through out the heat of Summer or even the freezing cold Winter.
 
Please contact us if you have any further questions!