Aack! Shipment notices have started

[markjchambers]

About 10 cases, but it’s all coming to my local UPS store. They receive it and I come by and pick it up at my convenience. Then I sneak it into the basement when my wife is sleeping. I got a box so I would have a “business” address to receive wine and no one would have to wait for packages to be delivered at home. The ability to hide my deliveries is a bonus.

[Andrew_K]

I contacted a couple of retailers to ship this week. 13 boxes showed up on Monday.

Good thing I held back the bulk for later…

[Jeff_M1]

Rivers Marie shipment is en route, but the floodgates open next week for fall shipments.

Di Costanzo
Diamond Creek
Carlisle
Bedrock
Detert
Dunn
EMH
Myriad
Neal
Outpost
Turley

[AndrewH]

My shipments may be more modest than some others this year, but regardless I have far less stress because Covid means I’m working from home, making it much easier not to miss a FedEX/UPS delivery. Oh how I hated the stress of hoping I’d be home in time, or having to redirect to a fedex office and pick up . . .

[Bob_Davis]

After mentioning to my wife we could start ignoring some of the discounted offers we’ve been receiving. Then a Hanzell Chard offer pops up on Last Bottle. Bit for 3. Then a Jeff Cohn offer arrives for buy 6 or 12 and get another 6 or 12 free, half off. Covers almost all Jeff’s wines.

He must have trouble selling through the 2016s. The same wines for sale now are the same ones for sale when we visited 2 years ago. Love them all but can’t buy them all.

[Brian_Pinci]

My FedEx driver asked me if I owned a wine store.

[David_Glasser]

Only 6 bottles on the pending list this fall.
I’ve been soooo good.

[JonathanG]

No worries Jay, this isn’t a competition.

Though if someone has more bottles pending than me, please one up me so I can feel a bit better about myself and rationalise all of this away

I am in 4 digits pending, if it makes you feel better. Thats excluding my de negoce.

Whats particularly terrifying for me is retailers have been receiving their 2018 BDX EPs that are >14%Abv . I was assuming all those were coming in oct 2021 so i may have to get yet another offsite locker already. Yikes.

[Rodrigo_B]

No worries Jay, this isn’t a competition.

Though if someone has more bottles pending than me, please one up me so I can feel a bit better about myself and rationalise all of this away

I am in 4 digits pending, if it makes you feel better. Thats excluding my de negoce.

Whats particularly terrifying for me is retailers have been receiving their 2018 BDX EPs that are >14%Abv . I was assuming all those were coming in oct 2021 so i may have to get yet another offsite locker already. Yikes.

Damn. At that point you’re counting deliveries by the pallet instead of by the case.

Somehow I keep on receiving cases and cases of wine, but my pending number stays the same….

[R_Frankel]

Yes the flood is coming. Fun and terrifying, all at once.

Thank goodness for CT. Quite a few times my records of purchases have been more accurate than my retailers’. Kind of embarrassing to send an ‘excuse me but did you overlook those 6 bottles of XX purchased March 3rd?’ or some such.

[Howard_Cooper]

Thanks everyone! I knew I could count on you. My 59 bottles now seem like a mere … nope. Still seems like too much wine.

But at least I know I’m not alone.

I had 56 bottles pending delivery before this week. Of these, 6 came yesterday, 12 more are supposed to arrive today and more will come next week. A lot of what is remaining after this will be some German wines.

So, I think I have the second lowest number pending on this thread (behind David, of course ).

[Howard_Cooper]

My shipments may be more modest than some others this year, but regardless I have far less stress because Covid means I’m working from home, making it much easier not to miss a FedEX/UPS delivery. Oh how I hated the stress of hoping I’d be home in time, or having to redirect to a fedex office and pick up . . .

This has been my biggest issue with wine shipments since I retired. It was really easy to have wine shipped to me when I was working and wines just went to my office’s mail room. But, now I hate having to stay home waiting for a package. I would rather be outside playing golf, etc. I am starting to have wines shipped to a fedex pickup spot at a Walgreens. We will see how that works.

[AndrewH]

I am starting to have wines shipped to a fedex pickup spot at a Walgreens. We will see how that works.

I have a FedEx store close to me that I usually ship to, but a Walgreens even closer. It worked fine, though the program had just started so the clerk was a bit confused on process. I wouldn’t worry . . .

[David_Glasser]

I am starting to have wines shipped to a fedex pickup spot at a Walgreens. We will see how that works.

I have a FedEx store close to me that I usually ship to, but a Walgreens even closer. It worked fine, though the program had just started so the clerk was a bit confused on process. I wouldn’t worry . . .

The Walgreens connection has worked really well for us. Twice the driver has automatically taken boxes addressed to our home to a Walgreens two miles away if we’re not at home at time of delivery. Same day. I get an email notice of the delivery attempt and diversion. No intervention by me. Didn’t expect that and don’t think it’s standard practice.

[Andrew_M_c_C_a_b_e]

60 bottles still on their way and I have zero space after the Qupe and two cases of dN that I didn’t plan on buying.

[Jeff_VanDenbussche]

I am starting to have wines shipped to a fedex pickup spot at a Walgreens. We will see how that works.

I have a FedEx store close to me that I usually ship to, but a Walgreens even closer. It worked fine, though the program had just started so the clerk was a bit confused on process. I wouldn’t worry . . .

I have a FedEx store a few miles away. It was on my way home from work (when I didn’t work from home). I would just stop by on my way home. It works out well so I don’t have to worry about being home. It is also one of the first stops so I know the wine isn’t on the truck all day.

My wife always laughs at me because the staff knows me by name. I just walk in, one of them sees me, and gets the box from the back. The other day they had a new employee, and that person started to ask “can I help you “, but one of her coworkers interrupted her and said “That’s Mr. VanDenbussche here for his wine”

[Scott_AB]

Not only do I have 5 cases coming of which I only have room for 2 in the fridge, I just got a notice from K&L that a 2018 Bordeaux future had arrived. I thought I had another 6 months!