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.
Ordered the ft03 from banggood last week, figured i’d upgrade the shipping as a test… was only 1.80 more.
7 Days and its already in the US. 
I think my K1 90.2 made it through customs! 
2020-05-22 07:31 Melrose Park,IL / DN SEND
2020-05-22 00:01 Melrose Park,IL / ENCODED
2020-05-22 00:01 Melrose Park,IL / RECEIVED
2020-05-16 23:49 ORD / Arrived at the destination airport
2020-05-16 23:49 ORD / Arrival of goods at destination airport
2020-05-16 02:00 HKG / shipment departed from airport of origin country
2020-05-14 18:15 HKG / Hand over to airline.
2020-05-14 16:15 HONGKONG / Arrived at Hong Kong hub.
2020-05-14 06:46 Shenzhen,China / Depart from facility to service provider.
2020-05-11 20:16 Hongqiao,Shanghai,China / Shipment arrived at facility and measured.
2020-05-11 20:16 4PX picked up
Baron, when mine arrives you can come over and fondle it 
(just to tide you over until yours comes). If you promise not to drool on it… 
LOL. I hope yours shakes loose soon!
A small story to understand how “great” air logistics is today.
Most EU countries opening their borders (with some restrictions) and some of them even allow to restart sport competitions (national football leagues).
Russian football competition will be restarted in a month, head coaches asked this time to get everyone ready in good shape. So, now it is time to return all international players from their countries. In regular life this is easy task, one private jet to each country and that’s it. But today each international flight requires lots of permissions.
A group of players (from several countries) should arrive to Russia (Orenburg) from Serbia (Belgrad) with such private jet. But 3 of them were not allowed to the plane (their football club made few mistakes in papers). Since there is no guarantee that same flight will get permission soon, they should go complicated way:
Belgrad-Zagreb
Zagreb-Frankfurt
Frankfurt-Minsk
Minsk-Moscow
Moscow-Orenburg
5 flights is a row. Technically, there is just one border. For sure they were ready to pay for another private jet. But even big money can not fix this.
Now imagine 3 million parcels instead of 3 footballers. That should pass so many local distribution and logistics centers, change many type of transport, pass many borders and customs. If at the end of pandemia most countries will get the idea how do they underestimate their spends on all this under $10 chn parcels and will set a fixed tax for each delivery, I won’t be surprised.
Best thing to do like with most 4PX shipments is to not watch the tracking at all, and just be surprised when it eventually shows up.
Entering the tracking number at USPS gave me only this:
“Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item
MELROSE PARK, IL 60160
Shipping Partner: DHL ECOMMERCE” (as of 12:01 am, the 22nd.)
The package was handed off to DHL. So I entered the number on their site and got this:
May 23, 2020
5:15 AM CT
Grand Prairie, TX, US
TENDERED TO DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDER
3:17 AM CT
Grand Prairie, TX, US
ARRIVAL DESTINATION DHL ECOMMERCE FACILITY
May 22, 2020
7:31 AM CT
Melrose Park, IL, US
DEPARTURE ORIGIN DHL ECOMMERCE FACILITY
12:01 AM CT
Melrose Park, IL, US
PROCESSED
12:01 AM CT
Melrose Park, IL, US
PACKAGE RECEIVED AT DHL ECOMMERCE DISTRIBUTION CENTER
Looks like USPS has been handed the package in Texas (but their tracking updates are notoriously slow). I might receive this on Monday or Tuesday!