Ordered from LeafOnly a week ago last Friday. Last Friday, tracking was still stuck at shipping info sent, and nothing in hand, when I put in an order with Whole Leaf Tobacco. Don shipped that same day. Told them both ship to the office PO box. Both packages arrived at the box yesterday.
Just as there is a dramatic diff between turn around, there's also a dramatic diff in packaging. Don goes for compactness. LO packed things loose.There's five pounds there in the white bag from WLT, and also five in LO's big box. Helluva diff in the bags used, too. Don's bags are impermeable heat sealed thick thick plastic. I'm gonna throw those on top of the stash tub in the closet and forget about them until the tobaccolypse. I have some of his sealed bags years old that still open perfectly. LO's bags are thinner than the zip locks I use to send out cigar bombs and such. I'm going to have to find room somehow in my overstuffed coolidors. No idea how that's gonna work. Just smell the two kinds of bag. These shipments sat outside in the boss's car, cause he fetched the mail yesterday. Hot Car Syndrome had the aroma coming out right thru the LO box. Pulled out a bag and snurfed it -- oh my God. You could practically feel the oils bathing your face. So LO's bags are not gonna keep the stuff. No way I can stash LO leaf for the tobaccolypse.
On the flip side, everything is so much looser and flatter with LO. These leafs want to lay flat; whereas Don's are crammed in a tight space, want to stay creased and crunkled. I'm gonna save a ton of time in the leaf spreading and flattening process.
Here's another night and day diff: Years ago, when I first ordered from LO and decided eff them, the grabba and fronto crap (which they recommended to me) was another planet completely from these leaves. Quality of their leaf has improved exponentially.
Eager to try this Nic binder I got, and see if the Dom volado helps out my Dull-Aware burn reluctance.
OK ... time to go to work
