Quote:Thank you for your recent order with Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc. Due to the overwhelming demand for our products over the last week and a half, I would like to reach out to you personally in order to let you know that there will be a bit of a delay in fulfilling your order.

That is probably telling you something that you already know if you have been patiently waiting for a couple of days now for word on the shipping of an order (or orders) that you placed, but I felt as though I at least owe you an explanation as to why it is taking us a little extra time to ship your order.

I have spoken to hundreds of customers personally over the last couple of days as I worked through close to 10,000 emails that I have received since last week - so if I already spoke to you about this, then please forgive me for bugging you on the same subject again.

It took me a few days to go through the backlog of orders to make sure that I knew exactly where we sat.

Please rest assured that your order will ship soon. For some people “soon” will mean hours or a day or two. And for others, “soon” could mean a delay of up to a week or a little more. It just depends on when you placed your order.

It is hard for me to tell anyone/everyone exactly how long the wait is going to be because we are moving as fast as we can without sacrificing accuracy.

Quite honestly, If I had to stop what we are doing to try and give you exact dates, not only would that be nothing more than a guess, but the time to go though orders one by one to come up with that guess would mean that I would be adding up to several more days onto the time it is already taking us to ship your order.

But, just know that we are shipping all orders out in the order that we receive them. You have me word on that!

Part of the difficulty of giving you an accurate ETA for the shipping of your order is that because the order sizes are so varied. Not only are there are still several thousand orders in the system that we are working on - but some of them are for a handful of items, and some of them are for hundreds of items.

And because we chose to accept back-orders on some items that we’re selling faster than we could replenish stock on them, we will be doing partial shipments on many orders, to ensure you do not have to wait longer than necessary.

That means that we may need to ship you two (2) orders to complete your purchase, and obviously it takes twice the time to ship two orders as it would take to ship one order.

However, I can tell you that we have all of the product in-house to fill every single order that we received, so you are guaranteed to receive your order with every single item that you purchased.

Once your order has shipped, you will receive an email with tracking information from my shipping folks so that you will know with certainty that it is on the way to you. If we did have to ship your order in more than one shipment, it will be indicated on your shipping confirmation email, and the remainder of your order will ship automatically, so you do not have to worry about doing anything on your end.

If you are willing to bear with us and wait for a little bit (and I hope that you will), you do not need to do anything. Just know that we are working on shipping orders literally around the clock 7 days a week.

However, if this delay is unacceptable to you, I honestly will understand and it will not stop us from hopefully offering you products that no one else is able to produce. Just let me know if you would rather not wait and I will cancel your order and issue a full refund to you right away.

If you have already received notification from us that your order has shipped, then please disregard this email as I may have gotten my wires crossed. Because of the huge volume of orders, I am relying on my shopping cart software to tell me who has placed and order and who is still waiting for us to ship it. So if your order has shipped annd you are receiving this email in error, that is why and I apologize for worrying you.=!

Again, if your order has anlready shipped, then I sent this message to you in error annd I am sorry about that. I just want to make sure that I get word to everyone who has been patiently waiting.

I would like to offer my sincere apology for any inconvenience that this delay may cause you. We do our best to fulfill orders without incident, but occasionally delays like this are simply unavoidable. I can count the amount of times that we have had to suspend our same-day shipping promise on one hand and still have 2 fingers left over;-).

I promise you that this delay will be temporary and we will get back to shipping orders the same day that they were received just as quickly as we can.

If you have additional questions and/or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me personally by responding to this email. I give you my word that you will receive a personal response from me - not from someone on my staff pretending to me - although I probably should add the disclaimer that it could take me a day or two to respond if I get overwhelmed, as I am actually already dealing with a volume of emails that I have never seen in the 21 years that we have been in business.

So if you don’t get a quick reply from me - please don’t send your message again. I promise you I have received it and I will reply to you personally as quick as possible.

Thanks to everyone for the understanding if you have been patiently waiting for your order or for a response from me. I am humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response to the recent information that many of you have seen on YouTube. I promise to never take the kind words, trust and loyalty for granted, as I know that you have choices out there.

On behalf of everyone at Freeze Dry Wholesalers - thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are the reason why we do what we do, and we all consider ourselves to be blessed to be a part of your lives!

Warmest Regards,

-Steve

Steven L. Cyros, President
Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc.

PS; As you will have seen if you have visited our website recently, we are sold out of a lot of products. In addition to our focus on shipping your order quickly, my buyers and my production folks are working on getting those products back in stock as quickly as we can.

Items that I have in my fridges and freezers will continue to be available for backorder. You can purchase those items and we will ship them to you as soon as they are available.

Items that I don’t physically have in my possession cannot be purchase, as I am just not comfortable taking your heard-earned money for them and then having to rely on a vendor to ship them to me. The state of the supply chain these days is questionable at best.

If you sign up on our website to be notified when an out of stock product is available, you will receive a real-time email the second we put it back in stock, so that is the best way to be alerted to our ever-changing inventory right now.

(09-26-2023, 09:38 PM)Infolurker Wrote: So, I got this right after my notification that Keystone Beef went up 3 bucks per can.

Not looking good on the survival food front. Something is up.

Quote:Thank you for your recent order with Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc. Due to the overwhelming demand for our products over the last week and a half, I would like to reach out to you personally in order to let you know that there will be a bit of a delay in fulfilling your order.

That is probably telling you something that you already know if you have been patiently waiting for a couple of days now for word on the shipping of an order (or orders) that you placed, but I felt as though I at least owe you an explanation as to why it is taking us a little extra time to ship your order.

I have spoken to hundreds of customers personally over the last couple of days as I worked through close to 10,000 emails that I have received since last week - so if I already spoke to you about this, then please forgive me for bugging you on the same subject again.

It took me a few days to go through the backlog of orders to make sure that I knew exactly where we sat.

Please rest assured that your order will ship soon. For some people “soon” will mean hours or a day or two. And for others, “soon” could mean a delay of up to a week or a little more. It just depends on when you placed your order.

It is hard for me to tell anyone/everyone exactly how long the wait is going to be because we are moving as fast as we can without sacrificing accuracy.

Quite honestly, If I had to stop what we are doing to try and give you exact dates, not only would that be nothing more than a guess, but the time to go though orders one by one to come up with that guess would mean that I would be adding up to several more days onto the time it is already taking us to ship your order.

But, just know that we are shipping all orders out in the order that we receive them. You have me word on that!

Part of the difficulty of giving you an accurate ETA for the shipping of your order is that because the order sizes are so varied. Not only are there are still several thousand orders in the system that we are working on - but some of them are for a handful of items, and some of them are for hundreds of items.

And because we chose to accept back-orders on some items that we’re selling faster than we could replenish stock on them, we will be doing partial shipments on many orders, to ensure you do not have to wait longer than necessary.

That means that we may need to ship you two (2) orders to complete your purchase, and obviously it takes twice the time to ship two orders as it would take to ship one order.

However, I can tell you that we have all of the product in-house to fill every single order that we received, so you are guaranteed to receive your order with every single item that you purchased.

Once your order has shipped, you will receive an email with tracking information from my shipping folks so that you will know with certainty that it is on the way to you. If we did have to ship your order in more than one shipment, it will be indicated on your shipping confirmation email, and the remainder of your order will ship automatically, so you do not have to worry about doing anything on your end.

If you are willing to bear with us and wait for a little bit (and I hope that you will), you do not need to do anything. Just know that we are working on shipping orders literally around the clock 7 days a week.

However, if this delay is unacceptable to you, I honestly will understand and it will not stop us from hopefully offering you products that no one else is able to produce. Just let me know if you would rather not wait and I will cancel your order and issue a full refund to you right away.

If you have already received notification from us that your order has shipped, then please disregard this email as I may have gotten my wires crossed. Because of the huge volume of orders, I am relying on my shopping cart software to tell me who has placed and order and who is still waiting for us to ship it. So if your order has shipped annd you are receiving this email in error, that is why and I apologize for worrying you.=!

Again, if your order has anlready shipped, then I sent this message to you in error annd I am sorry about that. I just want to make sure that I get word to everyone who has been patiently waiting.

I would like to offer my sincere apology for any inconvenience that this delay may cause you. We do our best to fulfill orders without incident, but occasionally delays like this are simply unavoidable. I can count the amount of times that we have had to suspend our same-day shipping promise on one hand and still have 2 fingers left over;-).

I promise you that this delay will be temporary and we will get back to shipping orders the same day that they were received just as quickly as we can.

If you have additional questions and/or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me personally by responding to this email. I give you my word that you will receive a personal response from me - not from someone on my staff pretending to me - although I probably should add the disclaimer that it could take me a day or two to respond if I get overwhelmed, as I am actually already dealing with a volume of emails that I have never seen in the 21 years that we have been in business.

So if you don’t get a quick reply from me - please don’t send your message again. I promise you I have received it and I will reply to you personally as quick as possible.

Thanks to everyone for the understanding if you have been patiently waiting for your order or for a response from me. I am humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response to the recent information that many of you have seen on YouTube. I promise to never take the kind words, trust and loyalty for granted, as I know that you have choices out there.

On behalf of everyone at Freeze Dry Wholesalers - thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are the reason why we do what we do, and we all consider ourselves to be blessed to be a part of your lives!

Warmest Regards,

-Steve

Steven L. Cyros, President
Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc.

PS; As you will have seen if you have visited our website recently, we are sold out of a lot of products. In addition to our focus on shipping your order quickly, my buyers and my production folks are working on getting those products back in stock as quickly as we can.

Items that I have in my fridges and freezers will continue to be available for backorder. You can purchase those items and we will ship them to you as soon as they are available.

Items that I don’t physically have in my possession cannot be purchase, as I am just not comfortable taking your heard-earned money for them and then having to rely on a vendor to ship them to me. The state of the supply chain these days is questionable at best.

If you sign up on our website to be notified when an out of stock product is available, you will receive a real-time email the second we put it back in stock, so that is the best way to be alerted to our ever-changing inventory right now.

(09-26-2023, 10:25 PM)kdog Wrote:

(09-26-2023, 09:38 PM)Infolurker Wrote: So, I got this right after my notification that Keystone Beef went up 3 bucks per can.

Not looking good on the survival food front. Something is up.

Quote:Thank you for your recent order with Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc. Due to the overwhelming demand for our products over the last week and a half, I would like to reach out to you personally in order to let you know that there will be a bit of a delay in fulfilling your order.

That is probably telling you something that you already know if you have been patiently waiting for a couple of days now for word on the shipping of an order (or orders) that you placed, but I felt as though I at least owe you an explanation as to why it is taking us a little extra time to ship your order.

I have spoken to hundreds of customers personally over the last couple of days as I worked through close to 10,000 emails that I have received since last week - so if I already spoke to you about this, then please forgive me for bugging you on the same subject again.

It took me a few days to go through the backlog of orders to make sure that I knew exactly where we sat.

Please rest assured that your order will ship soon. For some people “soon” will mean hours or a day or two. And for others, “soon” could mean a delay of up to a week or a little more. It just depends on when you placed your order.

It is hard for me to tell anyone/everyone exactly how long the wait is going to be because we are moving as fast as we can without sacrificing accuracy.

Quite honestly, If I had to stop what we are doing to try and give you exact dates, not only would that be nothing more than a guess, but the time to go though orders one by one to come up with that guess would mean that I would be adding up to several more days onto the time it is already taking us to ship your order.

But, just know that we are shipping all orders out in the order that we receive them. You have me word on that!

Part of the difficulty of giving you an accurate ETA for the shipping of your order is that because the order sizes are so varied. Not only are there are still several thousand orders in the system that we are working on - but some of them are for a handful of items, and some of them are for hundreds of items.

And because we chose to accept back-orders on some items that we’re selling faster than we could replenish stock on them, we will be doing partial shipments on many orders, to ensure you do not have to wait longer than necessary.

That means that we may need to ship you two (2) orders to complete your purchase, and obviously it takes twice the time to ship two orders as it would take to ship one order.

However, I can tell you that we have all of the product in-house to fill every single order that we received, so you are guaranteed to receive your order with every single item that you purchased.

Once your order has shipped, you will receive an email with tracking information from my shipping folks so that you will know with certainty that it is on the way to you. If we did have to ship your order in more than one shipment, it will be indicated on your shipping confirmation email, and the remainder of your order will ship automatically, so you do not have to worry about doing anything on your end.

If you are willing to bear with us and wait for a little bit (and I hope that you will), you do not need to do anything. Just know that we are working on shipping orders literally around the clock 7 days a week.

However, if this delay is unacceptable to you, I honestly will understand and it will not stop us from hopefully offering you products that no one else is able to produce. Just let me know if you would rather not wait and I will cancel your order and issue a full refund to you right away.

If you have already received notification from us that your order has shipped, then please disregard this email as I may have gotten my wires crossed. Because of the huge volume of orders, I am relying on my shopping cart software to tell me who has placed and order and who is still waiting for us to ship it. So if your order has shipped annd you are receiving this email in error, that is why and I apologize for worrying you.=!

Again, if your order has anlready shipped, then I sent this message to you in error annd I am sorry about that. I just want to make sure that I get word to everyone who has been patiently waiting.

I would like to offer my sincere apology for any inconvenience that this delay may cause you. We do our best to fulfill orders without incident, but occasionally delays like this are simply unavoidable. I can count the amount of times that we have had to suspend our same-day shipping promise on one hand and still have 2 fingers left over;-).

I promise you that this delay will be temporary and we will get back to shipping orders the same day that they were received just as quickly as we can.

If you have additional questions and/or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me personally by responding to this email. I give you my word that you will receive a personal response from me - not from someone on my staff pretending to me - although I probably should add the disclaimer that it could take me a day or two to respond if I get overwhelmed, as I am actually already dealing with a volume of emails that I have never seen in the 21 years that we have been in business.

So if you don’t get a quick reply from me - please don’t send your message again. I promise you I have received it and I will reply to you personally as quick as possible.

Thanks to everyone for the understanding if you have been patiently waiting for your order or for a response from me. I am humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response to the recent information that many of you have seen on YouTube. I promise to never take the kind words, trust and loyalty for granted, as I know that you have choices out there.

On behalf of everyone at Freeze Dry Wholesalers - thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are the reason why we do what we do, and we all consider ourselves to be blessed to be a part of your lives!

Warmest Regards,

-Steve

Steven L. Cyros, President
Freeze Dry Wholesalers, Inc.

PS; As you will have seen if you have visited our website recently, we are sold out of a lot of products. In addition to our focus on shipping your order quickly, my buyers and my production folks are working on getting those products back in stock as quickly as we can.

Items that I have in my fridges and freezers will continue to be available for backorder. You can purchase those items and we will ship them to you as soon as they are available.

Items that I don’t physically have in my possession cannot be purchase, as I am just not comfortable taking your heard-earned money for them and then having to rely on a vendor to ship them to me. The state of the supply chain these days is questionable at best.

If you sign up on our website to be notified when an out of stock product is available, you will receive a real-time email the second we put it back in stock, so that is the best way to be alerted to our ever-changing inventory right now.

I have seen this canned meat in our grocery store and thought about buying some. I have a few cans of another brand but haven't tried it yet. Is it any good ?

(09-27-2023, 12:28 AM)Schmoe Wrote: Never heard of this brand, but $10 for a 28oz can?  Christ.  I keep meaning to stock up on things, but I just never do.  Stuff like rice, fried beans, etc.  Salt.  Gotta have some salt, too.  I looked into curing meat, venison for example, but you need a shit ton of salt for that.  And a certain type of salt.

I don't have the land for seeds and all that.

(09-26-2023, 09:38 PM)Infolurker Wrote: Not looking good on the survival food front. Something is up.

(09-27-2023, 06:12 PM)Snarl Wrote:

(09-26-2023, 09:38 PM)Infolurker Wrote: Not looking good on the survival food front. Something is up.

Feels like that moment just before a stampede. The rational mind knows better. Just can't compete with the primitive mind once it has control. It'll pass in good time.

Glad to see people on this board realize food stocks ain't gonna last ... no matter how much you put away before the storm.

(09-27-2023, 07:17 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(09-27-2023, 06:12 PM)Snarl Wrote:

(09-26-2023, 09:38 PM)Infolurker Wrote: Not looking good on the survival food front. Something is up.

Feels like that moment just before a stampede. The rational mind knows better. Just can't compete with the primitive mind once it has control. It'll pass in good time.

Glad to see people on this board realize food stocks ain't gonna last ... no matter how much you put away before the storm.

Yup. Folks panic when they see hard times on the horizon, and often hoard too much. Remember the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020? I think you can reach a point where you have too much set back, and it will either A) go bad before you can eat it, or B) be nothing more than Raider Bait.

I have a friend that lives a couple hours east of here who has enough stuff set back for several years. I don't know what sort of rotation plan he has, but I can see a lot of that going bad before he can use it regardless of the rotation - you can only eat so much stuff in a day, and there are only so many days in a year. That guy also produces 95% of his own electricity via solar panels, but they are a pain in the ass to keep cleaned enough to produce. Everything has it's trade-offs, I reckon.

As Grace mentioned, we don't have a huge stock - about 20 pounds each of rice and beans, and about 10 pounds of lentils. I had a few pounds of corned beef stored up, but have now eaten it all and haven't replaced it. I've held off on hunting right around the house, so the woods are full of critters now that think it's a refuge from hunters, and tell their friends. That's my "hard times" plan Last week I looked out the kitchen window and saw there were a couple more cayenne peppers ready to harvest, so I went out to get them. It turned out that Mamma Bear (about 400 or 500 pounds of bear) was 20 feet or so on the other side of my perimeter fence, and she's still hanging on to two of this years cubs, about 150 pounds or so each at this stage. She had 3 this year, but one has already gone his own way, apparently.

The deer are so bold that they jump my fence and graze in the yard. Had an 8-point buck grazing just under the bedroom window last fall. Add in the squirrels, wild turkeys, and rabbits (not many groundhogs around here - the environment ain't right for them, not enough open fields), and my "larder" is mostly on the hoof, and think I'm a "friendly".

we've got 200 pounds of "ice melt" salt that you'd best believe in a pinch would get pressed into service for curing meat. We've also got a few pounds of potassium nitrate that will serve for curing as well, but it's main intent is to make black powder with. Gotta knock that game down somehow!

Walnuts, hickory, and oaks look like they're going to throw a good crop this year. Not only will that draw in more game, but that crap keeps forever. I've discovered several thousand dollars worth of ginseng within 100 feet of the house - back in the day, ginseng and hides was as good as money around here for trade, and probably will be again before it's over. Got some 'sang berries out of the woods last week that I plan on planting in shady places in the yard, to protect it better from poachers, but it'll take 5 or 10 years for it to get big enough to amount to anything.

My plan to become Vice Lord of the area isn't really going to plan. I didn't get enough corn this year to make an ounce of 'shine, and my weed isn't bushing out like it oughtta, so not producing very well, either. In Hard Times, trade in Vice Supplies booms - that's how my family got into moonshining to begin with, during the Depression. Can't have it all, I reckon.

My whole point is that storing up food is a good thing, but can become too much of a good thing. More than a year or two of canned and dried goods is too much - you should be producing before that much runs out, else you'll be falling behind. Stored stuff is just a buffer in my opinion, to provide breathing space to get production underway. Your main plan should be production, either of food items or of trade items to GET the food items you'll need later.

.Back in the day, everyone around here kept about a year or two's worth of canned goods, dried goods, and root crops in a cellar, which was constantly rotated out with new crops going in as the old was eaten out. That's the plan, if you've got enough ground to do it, and remember, you can always make raised beds and such in a yard to supplement what you have, even if it's not enough to live on altogether.

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(09-28-2023, 03:00 AM)Schmoe Wrote: Corned beef, oh yes.  I could live off corned beef.  I make a mean corned beef hash, I could eat that every day, no problem.  Grow some potatoes, bell peppers, onions, get some chickens for the eggs to go with it, and I'd be happy until the end of time 

(09-28-2023, 07:07 AM)Ninurta Wrote:

(09-28-2023, 03:00 AM)Schmoe Wrote: Corned beef, oh yes.  I could live off corned beef.  I make a mean corned beef hash, I could eat that every day, no problem.  Grow some potatoes, bell peppers, onions, get some chickens for the eggs to go with it, and I'd be happy until the end of time 

Me too. I usually make sandwiches out of it, but hash is not out of bounds, and it can be worked into a variety of other things. Grace won't touch the stuff, so when it's here, it's mine, all mine!

It's preserved with "corns" of potassium nitrate ("saltpeter"), hence the name "corned beef".

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(09-27-2023, 07:17 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(09-27-2023, 06:12 PM)Snarl Wrote: Glad to see people on this board realize food stocks ain't gonna last ... no matter how much you put away before the storm.

That guy also produces 95% of his own electricity via solar panels, but they are a pain in the ass to keep cleaned enough to produce. Everything has it's trade-offs, I reckon.

(09-27-2023, 07:17 PM)Ninurta Wrote: As Grace mentioned, we don't have a huge stock

(09-27-2023, 07:17 PM)Ninurta Wrote: we've got 200 pounds of "ice melt" salt that you'd best believe in a pinch would get pressed into service for curing meat.

(09-27-2023, 07:17 PM)Ninurta Wrote: My plan to become Vice Lord of the area isn't really going to plan.

My whole point is that storing up food is a good thing, but can become too much of a good thing. 

Your main plan should be production, either of food items or of trade items to GET the food items you'll need later.

(09-27-2023, 12:28 AM)Schmoe Wrote: I keep meaning to stock up on things, but I just never do.  

(09-29-2023, 12:46 PM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Explanation: Forget gold and silver until you have stored up Heirloom SEEDS and FRESH WATER ok!

Personal Disclosure: Both will be worth their weight in GOLD come SHTF!

(09-29-2023, 12:27 PM)Snarl Wrote:

(09-27-2023, 12:28 AM)Schmoe Wrote: I keep meaning to stock up on things, but I just never do.  

You mentioned you have a wife. Get busy and sock at least 'some' away. This is a man's responsibility. 

You're young. One thing I suggest you do is look at what money is worth, how much of it you get paid ... and contrast that with how much a cowboy got paid and what he was paid with back in the 1800s. Trust me: it's worth the time to work that out in your head.

Sooner or later we're gonna fall back to using precious metals as a currency. Precious metals never lose their value. They might get revalued and their actual values may be misrepresented/contrived, but they never lost value.

(09-30-2023, 05:29 AM)Grace Wrote: @"Snarl"#9 - I don't understand the precious metals thing unless it's brass which has an actual use for someone... 

People will barter what they have for what they need until society rebuilds, or in any black market for those living outside of "society".

(09-30-2023, 06:16 AM)Ninurta Wrote:

(09-30-2023, 05:29 AM)Grace Wrote: @"Snarl"#9 - I don't understand the precious metals thing unless it's brass which has an actual use for someone... 

People will barter what they have for what they need until society rebuilds, or in any black market for those living outside of "society".

Gold and silver don't have that value to me, because I can't eat 'em, but lots of folks take a different view of things.

in colonial Virginia, hard money was hard to come by, so it was a regular occurrence for folks to get paid in tobacco instead

The thing about gold and silver, or any other medium of exchange, is that it has value for some

The value of a thing is defined ONLY by the value others place on it.

Since the troops were getting paid one shilling and six pence a day, that musket they took was worth 13 1/3 day's marching or fighting. In modern terms, if one gets paid 500 dollars a week, that's $1333.00 worth of firearm