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November 2022

mycuppa November 2022 Newsletter

 The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.". Michael Altshuler

mycuppa November 2022 Newsletter

It's almost the end of the year, and we have also reached the end for some of our beloved store favourites.

With quite a few coffees cycling, some notable changes include Sumatra Blue Bianca (SBB), perhaps the finest example of global wet-hulled coffee, which is almost gone. It could be another week or a few weeks, but I doubt we will see our dearly loved SBB this time next month. Cue tears.

In place of the mighty SBB, we have a lovely coffee from a nearby origin, the not so well known Sulawesi. It's been over six years since we had a Bukit Marante, and we can't wait to get the covers off this recently landed lot as Sulawesi offers a distinctive and exciting cup. It's also a lot of fun playing with coffee that nobody else has got.

Our Colombia filter roast lot (#4) will change to a beautifully sweet Ethiopia natural in the next fortnight. Also evolving are quite a few of our African lots cycling over the new season.

Shipping Update

It might have been wishful thinking- a golden run on shipping performance almost incident-free for months and months.

During September and October, AusPost experienced annoying patches of incidents in Western Australia with slow transit times. For fear of upsetting our cherished sandgropers, WA shipping has never been an accessible destination for freight. Even long before the pandemic, west-bound segments always experienced congestion and delays.

But this time round, it's not the usual suspect of line haul woes, and the reasons had something to do with internal programs of major work inside of AusPost Perth parcel facilities changes to site operations to improve capacity. 

But whilst those works were active, it resulted in holding up parcels by reducing capacity/throughput. We say apparently because, just like the secret "cabinet-in-confidence" classification, that information is not something AusPost shares openly or transparently.

No wonder the tracking was not making any sense. Parcels arrived in WA in perfect time, only to sit and wait more than a week before being processed at the central Perth hub - it also affected routing to other areas within WA as everything needs to pass through those damn main hubs.

It's safe to assume WA deliveries are back to normal.

So this peak freight season we keep talking about folks is with us now.

Without any scientific explanation, performance slows as congestion builds - just like queuing up to fill the tank of your motor vehicle at the only petrol station in the area that hasn't put its prices up by 40+ cents a litre. You get the drill.

The last week in November and the first two weeks in December are of particular concern - when everything hits the proverbial wall. 

It's been the same every year since 2010, and we have stocked up on headache tablets, alcohol and anything else that will numb the pain as we prepare for impatience, late parcel rage and coffee out crisis.

Please plan carefully to avoid frustration; regardless of the retailer or shipper, it's a broad-based problem.

Something special just for you

Is anyone else sick of ongoing price rises, cost increases, adverse trading conditions, supply shortages, new surcharges, ridiculous ways to "gouge", and flimsy excuses for why everything is so much more expensive?

We hear you; it's getting harder to find decent value these days.

As an early Xmas present, we are offering a special on our November Secret Label to reward our subscribers.

But it would be best if you were a subscriber.

November's Secret Label is a delicious array of toffee, caramel and chocolate with smooth, silky and bang in the middle of the flavour universe.

One time, I was drinking this lovely coffee, which reminded me of Tiramisu; the next day, I thought it was sticky date pudding. Regardless, it's just delicious.

Everyone will love this one, and cue, drum roll, "It's going straight to the Trophy Room".