Moisture Content in Shipped Whole Leaf

[Sosakan]

Hello everyone, I have been lurking this forum for the past year and just received my first order from whole leaf. As I was looking at my haul a thought crossed my mind. While I truly like having everything in the proper case when I get it, it also seems that you are paying for a decent amount of water as well. I have purchased from a company whose initials are LO and they definitely sent my order in quite a lower case, so one would imagine I would get more from ordering there, although I think WLT does a way better job of packaging everything and that counts for a lot in my book.

I was just wanting to bring this up to get other people's opinions and maybe hear from FMgrowit or stogie. This isn't a critique or a way to cause controversy, I'm just trying to understand everything to the best of my ability. Lastly, if this post belongs elsewhere please feel free to move it, I couldn't figure out a good place to put it.

Thank you very much for your polite and considered responses.

 

[deluxestogie]

Welcome to the forum. Feel free to introduce yourself in the Introduce Yourself forum.

Shipping whole leaf tobacco that is out of case increases the risk of physical leaf damage during the shipping journey. Since relative humidity is relative to the ambient temperature, the leaf's case at the shipping point may differ from the leaf's case at the customer's doorstep. Given the wildly varying temperatures of warehouses, shipping vehicles, shipping depots and your front porch, the leaf's case when you open the package is difficult to predict.

For a novice user of whole leaf, recognizing the level of moisture in tobacco leaf, and adjusting it appropriately is sometimes challenging.

Bob

 

[treecutter]

Welcome to the forum. Go purchase a 50 gram tin of 1792 from SG. Now that is what you really call paying for water.

 

[Alpine]

Welcome to FTT

pier

 

[DaleB]

Having ordered from both places, I did not see a great deal of difference in case - other than what may have evaporated from one of them due to the different packaging method. Certainly not enough to make me worry about getting what I paid for.

 

[Sosakan]

Thank you all for your replies! I'm by no means critiquing either site, it is likely just that I prefer the packing method of WLT better and it gets to me in better case. I'm in Indiana and my WLT order took less than a day from the moment I clicked but to doorstep. LO has much farther to travel and has a less optimal packaging (IMHO).

Thanks stogie, I forgot the journey matters...and yeah, I'm still learning.

 

[44Smokeless]

Cheers, and my two cents...the added moisture is negligible compared to the amount of unusable tobacco I receive when it's shipped bone dry. It also depends on the type of leaf. The oriental tobacco always arrives on the dry side, really dry...prevents mold, but I wind up with a lot of small pieces at the bottom of the pound bag, still smokeable, and a certain amount of powder. I've received VFC's that were too dry, and wound up with a lot of little pieces and powder. So, be happy for the moisture and remember...bring water to the desert.