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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.
Order By Mail:
If you don't like the web and want to order by U.S. Mail, we use the Post Office only.
Just Send a check for
the amount and a note on what type mealcake -'s you would like to order. They are listed on my web site. Add a E-mail address
if you have one on the note, if you can.
Mail to:
Mealcake
P.O. Box 605
Calhoun Falls
S.C. 29628
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 let'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 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 a large Ranch/Farm..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 at their feet holding a cell phone to
their head...this just amazes me.. that a cell phone makes them that dumb.
Phone messages are lost:
Little Rive Electric is our power company
here in S.C.. 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.
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 JULY.
(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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