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Mealcake Orders, Shipping and other questions like the following:
When will I get it? Where is it? usps shipping # doesn't work?.. I
ordered today will I get it tomorrow??.
Please read below and/or e-mail me before you open a pay pal concern ticket concerning "where is your/my package".
It is going to take 3 or 4 working days
when we receive your order, to make and ship, plus 2 or 3 days of travel time to
you.. there is no way around it..
A open Pay Pal concern ticket stops and tie's down
your order for another week.
About the U.S.P.S. Tracking Number E-mails that you will receive from
us through and for pay pal orders.
In Process E-mail means:
We got your order... it's been posted on the work
order board and we are making it up for you.
The U.S.P.S. Tracking Number E-mail, "In Process" that we will send you will not work until we have...shipped your
order.
You will receive a second e-mail from us through Pay Pal when...Your order has been shipped.
The USPA Tracking number is assigned to you and your order when it comes in and that tag/number is how
we keep up with orders and what you ordered.
Orders are all hand written, dated, then stamped by the post office when shipped and kept on file by us.
The u.s.p.s. tracking number that I send you is valid,
no matter what the post office web site tracking screen says..
Example only.. 1234 4321 5544 3432 copy and pasty numbers into track and confirm at www.usps.com
(Here's a biggie) The U.S.P.S. tracking numbers:
For some reason AFTER your package has been received and scaned in
at the post office it will not show up until late that day ..even a couple days after the package has
been shipped.. sometimes..
What Is Cottonseed Meal cake?
it's the ground pulp left over after grinding and pressing the cottonseed. This is
how our old cotton gin worked. The troughs would catch the oil and then pumped it into holding tanks for storage.
There are better ways now, and we use them.
Cottonseed grinded up into a meal is white and when put under heat (making it easy to press the oil out), turns yellow
.
We leave all the oil in our cottonseed mealcakes.
The different in our cottonseed mealcakes with others sold on the market:
The different would be if the other mealcake makers used fresh milled cotton
seed verses, processed cottonseed meal in a bag.
We do not use Chemical Leached processed cottonseed meal to build our mealcakes.
This Chemical Leached processed type of cottonseed meal is sold in feed stores
in a 50 lb.bags for animal feed. The color is a burnt red/brown with black seed hull trash. Nearly
all the cottonseed oil is gone, striped out and is Useless to a point in my opinion.
We leave all the oil from our cottonseed in the mealcakes.
Mixing, Making and Curing mealcake:
Mealcakes take at least
2 to 3 days. After grinding and mixing a batch is press
out into a uniform shape mealcake then set out to cure. Longer if it's raining or cloudy. We try to keep 5 (separate) working
days of ongoing batches made up and getting them ready to ship (5 seperate shipping days). So at a glance
I can see orders received 3 days ago that are ready to go... but we can't add to that
number made, what was made 3 days past is done.
(Look for this to happen)
We are thinking of just.. combining our two mealcakes into 1:
Since the 2 mealcakes we make
Hoggum and Carolina
Mealcake are so close in make up, we will in the future just combind the 2 and just call them the
Carolina Mealcake. This will allow us and give us more time to make mealcakes by not having to change over the mixing process
so much..This has now been done as of May 24,2010
Pay Pal:
After you place your order with us it takes pay pal 3 or 4 days to send down your money for
the transaction/purchase. This works out with the order already started. So mealcake orders take about a week. A
week is 4 or 5 *working days (*does not
include Saturday and or Sunday) to made, cured and finally shipped out and ( 2
or 3 days) before it will get to you..
Post Office has it now:
Your package of mealcake is shipped Priority Mail which
means it reach's you in about 2 or 3 days..after I give it to the usps.
Mealcakes are cut and always packaged whole:
After U.S.P.S. gets them I am not responsible for what they do..
Orders that call for more than 1 shipping box are sometimes mixed with a bigger sized mealcakes together in
boxes to save you some shipping cost. Extra mealcakes are sometimes added to offset the different.
How fast can you make mealcakes?
Mealcake slabs are made 1 at a time and no 2 are alike so we just can't spit out a hundred or
so in a day or every day.
Mealcake materials are made with fresh ground material, mixed, then loaded and pressed then they are set
out to cool and cure.
Why do you make mealcake?
Because I don't have time to sit around waiting on fish to make up their minds to get on my hook. Get
the fish caught, go home cook and eat. My Mealcake does that for me..
What type of machines do you use?
One of our favorites, and we USE IT EVERYDAY, is a 1938 Sears and Roebuck King Hammer Mill (the
cost back then in 1938 was $83.00). She still runs as smooth today as she did back in 1938 new. Couldn't work without
it. The rest of the machines we make ourselves.
Will it last under water?
Yes, our mealcakes are rock hard yet fish are able to nibble only, no large bites allowed,
by design. Fish cannot take more than a nibble off of the mealcakes making them stay around longer. This
helps train and keep fish in an area so they will be there when you get back to fish again..
Only you know (where the fish will be.)..yep...
now that's something to think about..?
How much do I use?
Pieces as small as 1" can get fish to take notice by the oil and food that drifts off of
it.
How much does a big slab weight?
About 9 to 13 pound. All measurement and weights or estimated
because of the mixing, curing, pressing and cutting process.
Do stores carry this mealcake?
Yes, but some stores forget to reorder,
Stores Near You, Remind them to reorder or have a store E-Mail us.
To Carry Our Mealcakes ( Stores )
We will need, (have to have on file) your Stores Name, Contact Person, Phone, Shipping Address, and Tax
I.D. Number.(otherwise Tax is 7%.)
We use the K.I.S.S. method as a rule and when ever possible.
If you want Our mealcake in a store near you just asked the Store people to e-mail us, or for some to just re-order.
How do I use mealcake around docks?
You can drill a hole through a mealcake and tie a rope to it. Throw it in the water and go fishing around
it.
Is this good for fish baskets and how much to use?
Yes, a piece about the size of your hand put into the basket should be enough.
Can it be put on a hook?
Yes, but you will need to drill a hole in the our new harder mealcakes.
How do you ship this mealcake?
We use U.S.P.S. and Southeastern Freight Line sometimes. The post office takes it anywhere and with
any weight. Their largest boxes 12 x12 (up to 70 pounds). The people at the post office draw up when I take
these heavy packages to them. USPS flat rate boxes are hard to beat for the heavy weights. Plus they have a
simple tracking ticket that we use on each package.
We havn't found anybody that can beat that price. We add nothing to shipping or handling and usps boxes
are free.
What is the boxed sizes of mealcakes?
5 or 6 cut pieces in a box. The Mealcake slab that is cut 2 or 3 times into 8" or 12" in. lengths to fit
2 of the usps's boxes.
Do y'all make any other kind of mealcake slabs besides cottonseed?
Yes. After we get our inventory built up to a workable sales level, then we can look at
making Fish meal slabs or corn slabs ect.. Other types can be made the same way as other
cottonseed slabs. Our process allows for anything I, or you can think of can be made and put into a slab..
Fish Blocks coming soon:
We have been working on these fish blocks for a while now..Our fish blocks will have to be eaten by fish to make them go away..
Water contact only activates the feeding process, like our slab mealcakes. These
fish blocks will have twine already attached (run through the center) for hanging out or tying to a float, cork or a
piece of wood ect..
NO bag or netting needed but using them ley's you place it off the bottom.
I work with E-Mails (this is the only secretary that will work for me) Better and quicker than
a phone:
True...guilty..I am not on call, that's just the way it is..
Why Not Use Cell Phones:
They Don't last very long here..and our
young 1500 pound Brama-Black Angus cross BULLS don't care if you forget
where you are while talking on a cell-phone in their pen.....ever.
(it happens)
I've seen cell phones ..eaten, step on (while in a persons pocket), ran over, baled into hay bales, ground up,
drown in water tanks, lost in feed bins, shot, drop in a big fresh pile of ..fertilizer never to be used again..painted..ect..
E-mails are looked at first when I get up at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning.
Taking care of farming and ranching with live crops and animals is Our main job and also a 24 hour a
day lifestyle..
I'm looking after-over 6000 ac..and make mealcake on the side.
Being from the real OLD Southern School in services and temperment,
I (We) will do the best we can for you, always. This is what we go by and live by...and expect. Anybody
working here for us will do the same, period.
We don't play games but do have a sense of humor...well..a little bit anyway..
Like when some people forget they are in a bull pen while talking and
looking down holding a cell phone to their head...this just amazes me..
Phone messages are lost:
Little Rive Electric is our power company. Our power can
go off at any time for any reason and no reason and
does a lot. When the electric power goes off, even for a moment, all
messages recorded and phone numbers, disappear.
No, we don't have extra people:
($$$$/health insurance.retirement/workers comp..ect) standing around to answer phones. Our office is outside and in the
fields while E-mail is a 24/7's secretary.
Phone call backs !:
These are made mostly on the weekends, on Saturdays, as I come in late and leave early.
Why weekends ?
I got real tired of people
chewing me out for calling back so late or so early during
their work week.
Examples that happens around here:
I'm making mealcakes which also makes a lot of noise so I can't hear a phone if it rings. I noitice a
cow or horse that has got out of the pasture or pen somehow walking by the building?? What the !!
Everything NOW has to be shut down....O....the phone is ringing !...wait !...the cow/horse/chickens/ect are headed for
the highway/road/neighbors house/ garden/ect.....
We will add more questions and answers as we get them and I hope these help..
Thank you for your understanding,
Bobby Sherard Company Position: chief cook and bottle washer for Tri S Ranch and
Mealcake.com
We are trying to build an inventory of mealcakes. Because of increase sales
we have not been able to do so but we are keeping up with incoming orders.
NOTE: Turn around time for all on line orders took
about a week in the month of April. (a week does not count Sat.
and Sundays)
100%... of ALL orders received over
the years and using the U.S.P.S. tracking numbers have been shipped!
All of them were delivered in a timely manner and accounted for..
Thanks, y'all
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