Shipping a King Cake: A Mess or a Project? New Report Tests What Buyers Receive
From an iced cake damaged by September heat to a kit you have to ice yourself, ordering a king cake online involves more than selecting a flavor and comparing advertised prices. Cakes may arrive fully decorated or as DIY kits, shipping may be included in the listed price or added during checkout, and similar-looking cakes may provide substantially different portions. KingKingCakes.com has published a new report examining what customers actually receive when ordering king cakes online. The comparison included two rounds of orders from three sources, with two packages ordered from each source and six deliveries in total. The complete comparison report includes photographs, measurements, weight tables and package-content details. The products represented three common online options: a fully iced cake sent by Ground service, a lower-priced DIY kit sent by residential Ground service and KingKingCakes.com’s DIY package sent by FedEx 2Day express service. KingKingCakes.com conducted the comp...