Great for additional data point

I run a small seed business out of my home – it’s a passion project, it’ll never pay the mortgage. For the last year, I’ve had a problem where our post office is losing 1 in 10 packages or worse. It’s maddening, given there’s nothing I can really do about it. After a particularly belligerent customer didn’t receive her parcel, I’ve decided to see if I can’t track down the issue as, depending on what my day looks like, I might use 3 different letter boxes (in 3 different towns with a total distance of about 60km apart). To do this, I’ve used ‘Custom Order Status…’ to create a specific ‘Shipped’ order status for each of the 3 letter boxes so I can keep track of that information easily and without additional steps to my fulfilment process.

It’s still a long time before this pays off, and the likelihood of getting useful information out of it is pretty slim (i.e. the postie in *this* town sucks vs the post office sucks) – but it allows me to feel like I’m doing something useful in the meantime, and again, after set up it’s literally no extra work which is exactly what I was looking for.