Except for Small Batch the other places I order from have the sticks in transit for a long time at least 7 to 10 days and I have never had them come in dried out. Usually they are still too wet for my liking. I've also been known to take a smoke out of my humi and forget about it only to smoke it 2 weeks later and they are just fine still. I think the drying process takes more time than I think. My sticks are coming out of the humi on the lower side anyway(62) so it's not like they are wet and have more humi to bleed off. The ambient RH is usually around 45% in my house.