I see that you edited the beginning of your post. I have seen that word “Meh” on here and never anywhere else. so I looked it up.
People might think you’re a very bad-mannered person altogether. Meh is designed to be rude and dismissive - a sure-fire conversation-stopper. Users of the word are unequivocal in their total indifference to what is being discussed.
expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm.
“Meh. I’m not impressed so far”
A bit different in explanation.
Right now there are at least 4 things affecting China shipping/commerce ;
1.Political unrest with Hong Kong
2. War of words and wills between their administration and the USA administration.
3.Flare ups of Covid
4. Less air package/people travel.
Now on our side of the pond we have slower customs, add it all up and it is slow boat time.
Shipping my KR4 took almost 40 days, usually its 2-3 weeks
From Canada here, my KR4 was shipped the on the first of April and today it had its first update at 50 days since email indicating shipment. 9 days without an update seems like a cake walk…… I mean its on the correct continent. 
Indeed so. Compared to your waiting time 9 days is a cake walk. 
Mentioned that[Canadian issues] in beginning of post. It is just something I never experienced or expected. If anything I would have thought the most travel time would have been how long it took to arrive in USA, not the delivery time once it got here.
If Muto is right, the only thing it can be is slower USA customs.
All I can do is Wait and check my tracking Twenty times a day. :confounded:
I ordered 4 cheap 18350 cases two weeks ago. Showed up in 10 frigging days. I never saw anything that quick even before this pandemic. Tracking shows it did ship from Shenzhen. So WTH lol.
You are right in terms of 3 months vs. Two weeks. However, as I indicated in my OP, Two or Three weeks is no big deal and is Not my complaint and frustration, it is the fact that for 9 days it is stagnant and has done nothing. That is my whole point.
Three of my orders from last March are still in China or out over the Pacific Ocean somewhere.
Did anybody hear a splash?
Two more recent orders from April and May show, new since yesterday, as having reached California.
Thanks for the info that
In my job one of my duties involves completing applications and finishing contracts for people. The paperwork and documentation parts are pretty quick, but the from time you submit it and the time it’s finished can be 2, 3, or 5 months depending on the company, delays, etc. When the contractors or applicants ask me for status updates after only a month in, I tell them hurry up amd wait. I’m doing the same with my Chinese orders. Got some stuff ordered in March, but nothing from April yet!
My KR4 took 40 days as well. Was stuck for several weeks in Belgium.
its weird as some times its fast and sometimes its crazy slow to finland
ive got a package stuff at customs since 14/05
normally its 2 days max at customs
Possible that packages are intentionally being held to let any corovirus germs die out?
Maybe no one wants to even touch ’em ’til they’re “safe”.
Not a chance. It took my package 5 days from China to here
If you google…How long can the COVID-19 stay on a cardboard box you will get plenty to read. All of which say it can live up to 24 hours on a card board box.
The Virus can Not last on a box from over seas to USA. Saw a program on that with medical doctors.
“A recent study has also found that coronavirus can live on cardboard up to 24 hours.”
The risk more so arises between pickup by the delivery person, drop off at the home and thereafter.
If they really want to be safe rather than waiting it out they could toss things into a UV treatment chamber and just blast the container and release the packages quickly. :sunglasses:
This called for a tad bit more analyzing.
From the time it left Hong Kong until it arrived in LA was 22 Hours 15 minutes. They could have quarantined the package for a few hours and it would be ready to go. It has been 9 days! :smiling_imp:
Good concept but very time consuming and unnecessary. :innocent: We would wait until Christmas to get our lights.
I never said it had to make sense, just that someone might be doing it.
Maybe they have a 14 day quarantine?
This isn’t due to quarantining packages for some prescribed length of time.
Roughly half of all air cargo is transported on the lower decks of passenger aircraft. With passenger flights down something like 90%, that eviscerated air cargo capacity.
The lowest class of package shipping doesn’t generally fly on a schedule. It flies when there is room on a plane not occupied by any higher priced class of service. It’s probably in many cases not even being sorted by when it arrives. It’s well within the realm of possibility that a package could get buried under other packages that arrive at a sorting center later, leaving some percentage of packages to sit for unusually long periods of time.
The costs are going up, too. Dedicated freighter aircraft have to cover all their costs based on the cargo, and usually fly higher value cargo. In normal times, passenger aircraft cover most of the cost of the flight based on passenger tickets, and cargo is treated as ancillary revenue. We might start to see this reflected in shipping prices we pay.
Also, my limited experience with US customs on low cost shipping options has been long delays even in normal times. Even if they aren’t experiencing reduced staffing either a necessity to maintain distancing or due to employees using time off to reduce personal exposure to others, they are probably experiencing reduced efficiency due to distancing measures disrupting the way sorting and inspection operations normally work.
I’d guess items are being shipped in big bundles across the Pacific, then repackaged and addressed in the US for delivery. Today I got
That’s for one that’s previously been shown departing Country of Origin China for many days.
And it’s the most recent of five pending orders.
The next most recent one now suddenly says:
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The earlier ones back to March are still out over the Pacific somewhere.
Patience, patience, I’ll have them before the fall equinox when the nights start getting longer.