Heat + juice delivery

[juicejunky]

It was a few weeks back...a lot of them were juices I have ordered before and so far I haven't noticed any difference at all. Here is the thread (short one), but you can see the response I recieved at least. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...cussion/306113-juices-left-heat-thoughts.html

Really the same answer, heat accelerates the steeping process and thus shortens the shelf life. At two weeks mine looked and tasted normal too but at two months they were ruined.

If you can put a small amount aside as an experiment and wait a few months, I'd be curious to know if it happens to yours.

That Phoenix sun can be pretty brutal. I'm due back there in August and certainly won't be ordering juice. I've had concerns about batteries shipped there in summer as well, but I was quick to retrieve them and a year later so far so good.

 

[daniele25]

Really the same answer, heat accelerates the steeping process and thus shortens the shelf life. At two weeks mine looked and tasted normal too but at two months they were ruined.

If you can put a small amount aside as an experiment and wait a few months, I'd be curious to know if it happens to yours.

That Phoenix sun can be pretty brutal. I'm due back there in August and certainly won't be ordering juice. I've had concerns about batteries shipped there in summer as well, but I was quick to retrieve them and a year later so far so good.

Yeah...my mailbox is out in direct sunlight all day. Its been 113 the last 2 days..I just make it a point to know when any packages are coming & grab them right away after the mail comes. That one juice order was a fluke because I ended up extending a business trip and therefore couldnt be here when my order arrived. It was a pretty big juice order...8 bottles or so, so I'm sure I will still have some of these in a few months. Will let you know if I notice anything

 

[Optimo]

Don't know if anybody has said it but if you leave juice with nic in it at high temps overtime the nic content will decrease little by little going by a study that has been done. If you're worried about the heat during shipping I wouldn't worry about it. Just let it cool down back to room temp before opening the bottle and vaping it.

 

[ohai]

Bumping for relevence- it's so freaking hot. Don't leave your defenseless little juice babies to suffer in the mailbox!

 

[asti]

Bumping for relevence- it's so freaking hot. Don't leave your defenseless little juice babies to suffer in the mailbox!

juice babies, LOL
My mailman puts packages on his dash while driving so they are beyond toasted by the time they get TO my mailbox...
once I had a package of batts I left sitting to cool in the shade outside cause I was frankly scared to open them up

 

[Underwhelmed]

I live in Texas and buy tropical fish over the internet and have them delivered using USPS Priority mail on a regular basis. Of course those shippers use styrofoam lined boxes to try and keep the temps inside the boxes stable, whereas most of my juice deliveries have come First Class delivery.

I use a post office box for just this reason. A little heat is good, Texas summer heat is bad, for juice or fish.

 

[ohai]

I live in Texas and buy tropical fish over the internet and have them delivered using USPS Priority mail on a regular basis. Of course those shippers use styrofoam lined boxes to try and keep the temps inside the boxes stable, whereas most of my juice deliveries have come First Class delivery.

I use a post office box for just this reason. A little heat is good, Texas summer heat is bad, for juice or fish.

I get 1,000+ phoenix worms delivered twice monthly, and if it's going to be too hot in my area for them to ride around in the heat, the supplier will specify "pick-up only". It's irritating to have to go get them, and I'm sure it's a PITA for the supplier to check delivery time temps on every order, but at least the worms are always frisky and ready to run for their lives when they get here.

In contrast, UPS once left a box of crickets roasting on my porch a day before they were estimated to arrive last August, and didn't even ring the doorbell, so I wasn't even expecting them, and they sat there all day. If you have never encountered the stench of 500 dead and/or dying crickets simmered in the sun, I highly recommend that you avoid it. Some things cannot be unsmelled.

 

[Underwhelmed]

I hear ya.

Where I live they use Rural carriers, not regular postal employees and my mail would arrive between 3 or 4 Pm if I had it delivered to my home. Rural carriers are required to supply and maintain their own vehicles. Most of the carriers here are using either used vehicles or old mail jeeps with no A/C in them.

I'd rather that my temperature sensitive deliveries sit in a nice temperature controlled Post Office than bounce around all day on the back roads in vehicle that might or might not have A/C.

As to the cricket stench, I've smelt that and you are right. The gym at the Junior High I went to would get inundated with breeding crickets in the fall, most would die there.

Edit-
I won't even get into UPS, but really, a brown aluminum truck in Texas heat? If a seller uses them for fish I won't buy from them.

 

[juicejunky]

If you have never encountered the stench of 500 dead and/or dying crickets simmered in the sun, I highly recommend that you avoid it. Some things cannot be unsmelled.

I've smelt many hundreds of thousands of dead cicadas all over my yard as I shoveled them off the patio. The 17 year brood in my area is due to come out again next summer. Thanks for reminding me. The noise is something else too.

 

[ohai]

I've smelt many hundreds of thousands of dead cicadas all over my yard as I shoveled them off the patio. The 17 year brood in my area is due to come out again next summer. Thanks for reminding me. The noise is something else too.

I can't even imagine having enough dead cicadas to need a shovel for them, that sounds horrifying.

I've always loved cicadas, that is the sound of summer for me. I remember once when I was a kid, I trapped one in a jar and hid it in a cupboard in our laundry room before skipping back out to play for the day. My mother tore the whole house apart for hours trying to figure out where the noise was coming from, and thirty years later, her left eye still twitches uncontrollably when she tells that story.

 

[DaveP]

Sounds like a good time to put juice in a styrofoam container if you keep it in the car during the work day. I used to keep CD's, DVD's, and 3.5" floppies in one for my job. Over time, computer media gives up the data in summer car heat, even in middle Georgia.

Last week my Explorer was reading up to 108 degrees as I rode down hot asphalt midtown roads. We set all time records for high temps this year.

 

[ohai]

Sounds like a good time to put juice in a styrofoam container if you keep it in the car during the work day.

That's a great idea.

 

[Underwhelmed]

If I'm go anywhere after work instead of home I stick my stuff into my lunch kit. I usually have a Kindle and possibly a mini net book as well as my vape supplies with me everyday. Using the lunch kit keeps everything cool and out of sight in my truck when I'm in a store.

It's one of those zipper topped bags, about the size of a six pack with a plastic liner in it. I take one of those re-freezable ice alternative things everyday to keep my sandwiches cool and it's still good and cold even after 8 hours at work.

I've also used the same setup to go buy frozen fish food in the middle of summer. That stuff costs too much to have it melt on the way home and my nearest PetSmart is a 40 minute drive easy.