Forgot how long to receive a light from China

I’ve got a package that fell into a black hole in Illinois. DHL ecommerce tracking states it was turned over to DSP 4 days ago. USPS tracking says awaiting package.

My suspicion is it may be at customs, as there hasn’t appeared to be any time at customs up until now. Odd that it wasn’t at the point of entry.

Wow I never knew first world countries had customs problems. I always thought it was only me living in a 3rd world shithole that had to endure slow customs clearance

I ordered a S9 from Simon and a SP30A from Sofirn’s AE store on 1 Sep. The Sofirn arrived on 13 Sep (!!), and the S9 is still shows “Processed Through Facility” in CHINA,SHENZHEN, from 07 Sep.

In the past my Convoy orders have usually arrived faster than anything else. That’s the fun part of ordering from China: the guessing game.

I hear ya. Man, every package I’ve had that came through Chicago customs was a nightmare…sometimes 2 week holds !!!

I’ve seen anything from 6 days to 10 weeks from China to Scotland. It really is a lottery most of the time. Avoid ordering around Chinese Golden Week or Chinese New Year :slight_smile:

Useful dates:

Chinese Golden Week 2018: Oct 1 - Oct 7.
Chinese New Year 2019: Feb 4 - Feb 10.

If you have anything you want to leave China before Golden Week, get your order in now - lots of places shut down a few days before the official holidays and restart a few days after. China is so big that all the migrant factory workers need a couple of days to travel home to their families in rural areas and then back to work again.

Just read that the trade war is stepping up with Chinese Customs slowing things down to tighten the screws.

Omgosh Omgosh Omgosh! I was having a good chuckle reading the comments and a message popped that my Convoy C8+ has just passed through LA USPS.

Woohoo! Time to find my charger and batteries.

Order. pay. and forget.

ONE DAY. Oh. I remember that.
Bonus.

Mine usually come around a week after I think “Oh well. Luck of the draw”.

Don’t ever think about it. They the ones that go missing.

I’ve been waiting for one replacement since Early June, another since mid July.
Not holding my breath though.

C8+ Sand just landed. Ordered 28th August from GB :weary:
zanflare T1 same time, still waiting.
8x30Q from BG ordered 26th Aug, still waiting.

US Customs should not be a factor in any purchase under $800. The Chinese sender is required to fill out a customs label indicating the value of the shipment. Since there is no duty on small purchases, they just come from China Post to USPS and then to you. Shipping time is pretty variable seemingly with no rhyme or reason. Some items that cost under a dollar (including postage) arrive in a little over a week while others with the same value take 30 or more days.

All my orders never took more than 2 months to arrive. It’s an exercise in patience that gets easier over time.

The “order and forget” advice is solid, but I still torture myself with 17TRACK every so often because I’m like that :smiley:

Sillen.
My C8+ was ordered 12/8. with 4 x 30Q on 4/9.
both from Same dealers.

I’ll compare difference to Melb and Cent Q’Land hey.
What did you pay for the C8+ Mine XPL-Hi.

Oh, Hell no.

Every order I get, I’m on it like stink on a monkey.

Pending or shipped.

Once shipped, what carrier/tracking#.

Status of package (“label created”, “acceptance”, “hand off to airline”, etc.).

Where, once it hits the US.

I’m practically waiting by the door and doing a cat-dance when Mr Mailman brings it.

And it’s still flagged as “unfinished” ’til it gets checked out and okayed (ie, nothing missing/broken, etc.).

I got an html/js page with my “order activity”, that figures out by the tracking number what carrier it is, and what’s the link to just click on and check it.

Like I said, I’m on it like stink on a monkey…

C8+ Sand - how’s it looking? That’s what I’m expecting Monday.

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I got an html/js page with my “order activity”, that figures out by the tracking number what carrier it is, and what’s the link to just click on and check it.

What’s that?

Wellp, if it sees “1Zbunchofnumbers” it knows it’s a UPS tracking number. “LS…”, “LY…”, etc., or “92…” or “94…”, a USPS number.

Then when I see new tracking numbers from PostNL, SingPost, Yaiwen, whatever, I add those patterns accordingly.

Then, for (eg) USPS, the format is

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=trackingnumber

so if it’s flagged as a USPS tracking number, it sticks it into the “formula” and makes it a link. So I click on that, and like magic, I get taken to the query-page for usps.com.

Nice ,you make it?

Yeah, evolved from a text-file just to keep track of a couple UV drop-ins. Just wanted to make sure I got ’em while some other orders were in transit, etc.

Added the order number, amount, etc., separated by tabs. Then, why not make it a simple html page, cute it up with colors, etc.?

It just grew, grew, grew, made it instead a sort of checkbook-ledger instead of just an order-list. Added colors for debits, credits, deposits, etc. Automagically append an ↑ after interest/deposits/refunds, a ↓ after debits, etc. via CSS.

All sorts of nifty add-ons.

It’s about 1-2 steps away from becoming Skynet at this point.

Sounds good but you are over my head. You must be in the business.

Very nice. The kids weren’t impressed by the coating, very “dry” texture.