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Originally Posted by Monochron
How in the world would you deliver 1,000 bails of hay? And how would do it with only 3-4 hours notice.
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We would put the flyers out about 3 weeks before the delivery day, a Saturday. People would leave a voice mail with the how many they would need. Then the Wednesday before delivery, we would let the landscape company, that sells pine straw, how many we needed. The chairman would layout delivery routes and give them to drivers. We had about 3-4 parents that had open top trailers. The parents would drive to the landscape company, and load up with 30-50 bails of pine straw. Then cars would drive their route with a follow car of about 3 people to help deliver. Most people bought 20-30, so it would take about 5-10 minutes to unload their order, usually leaving it on the driveway. People would pay at that time. We had the Scouts do all the money collection.
Keep going until they ran out of pinestraw, then they would go back for more. It would take about 30-40min to refill and get to the next house, when they ran out. Now if you could get a 27ft ryder panel truck donated, it would be even easier.
Brian