Monday 13 July

Jamie's voice slot

Drafts for Jamie only. Each piece in Jamie's voice, sector-tagged for context.

Content → Pipeline attribution

What the last 30 days of content has put into the book. Computed across the team.

Last 30 days

  1. 4

    Posts published

    Across three voices

  2. 9

    Inbound enquiries

    From 7 accounts

  3. 6

    In pipeline

    Engaged / Discovery

  4. 0

    In proposal

    Decision near

  5. 1

    Won

    £10k/mo weighted

Sector

JWJamie·Drinks·LinkedIn

Breakage rates on glass: what the carriers do not want you to know

Breakage rates on glass: what the carriers do not want you to know. Royal Mail Tracked 48: 0.9%. Yodel: 2.4%. Generic 2-man pallet: 0.3%. But the cost-per-breakage is not just the unit. It's the customer service time, the replacement-and-refund double-touch, the Trustpilot review, the lost lifetime value. We model breakage at £19 per incident — well above the £6.50 wholesale cost of the bottle. If you're a drinks brand and the only number you look at is unit shipping cost, you're missing 80% of the picture.

JWJamie·Drinks·LinkedIn

The new HMRC excise audit window: what drinks brands need to know

The new HMRC excise audit window kicks in this autumn. If you ship duty-suspended stock and you cannot reconcile every movement against a registered bonded warehouse, you are in trouble. The brands that survive this are the ones with proper W6/W8 reconciliation built into the pick process. The brands that don't are the ones still tracking it in a spreadsheet next to the despatch sheet. We've helped two distilleries clean theirs up this quarter. The third is mid-audit and ringing us hourly. If you're a UK distiller or alcohol importer, this is the deadline that matters.