21/08/2026
Packing 1,000 orders in 8 hours sounds impressive, but it didn’t start that way… 😅📦
There was a time when packing 1,000 orders would take us THREE DAYS. We remember just one hundred hampers packed from a basement in Highbury would take four or five hours.
We’ve learnt a lot over the last five years through trial + error and a few cases of extreme weather 💨☀️
We have:
- packed hampers outside in the middle of summer (because we didn’t have enough space) … only to realise everything was starting to MELT. 🫠
- Been bombarded by rain and wind that sent our canopies flying whilst we desperately tried to protect all the orders underneath it. 😭
There have been long chaotic days where we’ve though “how are we actually going to get all of these out?!”.
Fast forward to now, and we can pack 1,000 orders in around 8 hours.
Not because packing 1,000 orders suddenly became easy but because we got better and are always iterating.
A team that is well versed in packing hampers
A better space (one level)
Better systems & processes
And years of figuring out what works (and definitely what doesn’t!).
It’s quite surreal looking around on days like this and remembering where we started.
Small business growth isn’t always glamorous, but we’re here for it! 🚀
