Okay. With the superb input from you wonderful folk on here, and an hour thrashing through logisitics with the butcher, we are Go!
Postage and packing for 10kgs meat, vacuum-packed, packed in a polystyrene box with chiller strips and couriered in vans suitable for carrying perishable items would be:
Overnight courier, to arrive by 10am the following morning, £27.15. Arriving by noon is slightly cheaper, £22.45.
Would these prices put you off buying meat at £10/kg for 10kgs total?
The heifer is booked in and the butcher plans to hang the meat for 21 days - although he says that if it's
very lean, he may recommend hanging it for slightly shorter a time. If it's 21 days then we'd be sending packs out to arrive Tuesday 30th June. (So, assuming summer has arrived by then, it might be best to go for the 10am delivery.)
Please let me know your thoughts - as you know, this is my first time doing this, and I am very grateful for all input and ideas! (Even if it's 'phew! not at that price!'
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