We love Lyons tea and Teadog did a great job getting us our order promptly and at a fair price. Since we pay for shipping, it's much cheaper to order several boxes -- the shipping charge isn't much higher for 3 boxes than it would be for one, so it ends up being a much better value. But unfortunately, the freshness date was only 5 months in the future. By the time we finish all 3 boxes, we will be well past the freshness date. We've purchased Lyons tea before and had nearly a year before it expired. We could just order 1 box at a time from Teadog but then we'd be paying 60% of the cost of the tea in shipping charges. Needless to say, we'll have to at least consider other options in the future. Very disappointing.