What is the Hold Up?!

Some data on my recent orders from Sofirn and Convoy. One ordered 4/7, received 5/14. Others ordered 4/15 & 3/28 … not yet received.

2020.05.17 : Shipment accepted by airline (Received by line-haul)
2020.04.15 : Shipment dispatched (Accepted by carrier)

2020.03.29 - … (Despatch from Sorting Center)
2020.03.29 : Departed country of origin (Hand over to airline)
2020.03.29 : Shipment accepted by airline (Received by line-haul)
2020.03.28 : Shipment dispatched (Accepted by carrier)

2020-05-14 - Received -- USPS delivery.
2020-04-12 - Despatch from Sorting Center
2020-04-11 - Posting
2020-04-07 - Shipment

One of my items, somewere between there and here. Last update appeared three days ago. Info via 17track.

2020-05-13 15:52
LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, delivery to local courier

2020-05-06 17:40
LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Clearance processing complete at GATEWAY

2020-05-05 18:15
LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Arrived at AIRPORT of Destination,Custom clearance in processing.

2020-05-05 06:30
CHINA, Departure to destination country

2020-05-03 11:00
CHINA, Arrive at international airport to abroad

2020-05-03 09:00
GUANGZHOU, Departed Facility In processing center

2020-05-02 20:33
GUANGZHOU, Shipment has been processed in operational center

2020-04-30 21:27
GUANGZHOU, Arrived at Sort Facility GUANGZHOU

2020-04-30 11:49
Shipment information received

Looking at some of my recent AliExpress orders:

4/4 CN Knives Store order - still waiting but supposedly arrived in country
4/10 Convoy order - delivered to my house on Friday
4/18 Sofirn order - still waiting

I have one order from banggood ordered on Apr/27/2020 and still only getting,

May 15 06:23
Package information received
Netherlands Post

Incidents where a large number of containers are lost off a ship happen a few times a year. A small number of containers being lost happens more frequently. The total averages about 1400 containers lost per year, but that’s out of nearly 800 million total shipments, so in total it’s only like 1 out of ever 500,000 containers. Plus, a lot of individual parcels go by air, not by consolidated ocean shipments.

So our personal flashlight orders straight from China should be safe, but distributor shipments could be at some very small risk of washing overboard.

There’s some statistics here:

2013 definitely stands out due to an entire container ship sinking. I think that also might have been the year there were a bunch of bad storms in the north Atlantic. I remembering having a project at work in shipment at the time and wondering when the tracking information stopped being updated for about a month if the past year’s worth of work was sitting at the bottom of the North Sea.

I’m hope my KR4 arrives soon…. last update was

“2020-05-22 16:08 SGSINB,Singapore, International item has left originating country and is en route to Canada”

one would assume if it was by air it would be here somewhere in the Canada.

Anyone have any luck with Sofirn lately?

Im a week away from 2 months stuck in Nanning, CN.

It’s not only happening to shipments from China.

I’m in Australia & I ordered an item from the USA
Ordered on 21 April via eBay - shipped on 22 April, with DHL tracking - now stuck -
26 Apr 2020
2:27am
ARRIVED AT EXPORT FACILITY
Carson, CA 90746
No further tracking info available.

I queried eBay/dealer & got the standard response. Delay due to Covid-19 etc.
so I think the lack of international flights is affecting all shipping.

Patience paid off.

-Stayed off line for almost 5 days.

-Did not track[until now] for 5 days

Just checked tracking and it updated yesterday!

ONLY 100 miles from me and soon to be in USPS[Pre shipment] hands. :+1: :+1: :+1:

USPS Premium Tracking™ Available
Status
Pre-Shipment
May 27, 2020

Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS, USPS Awaiting Item


2020-05-26 12:42:00 Avenel,NJ / ENCODED
2020-05-26 12:40:00 Avenel,NJ / RECEIVED
2020-05-14 16:45:00 LAX / Arrival of goods at destination airport
2020-05-14 16:45:00 LAX / Arrived at the destination airport
2020-05-13 18:30:00 HKG / shipment departed from airport of origin country
2020-05-11 21:10:00 HKG / Hand over to airline.
2020-05-11 19:10:00 HONGKONG / Arrived at Hong Kong hub.
2020-05-09 23:02:00 Hongqiao,Shanghai,China / Depart from facility to service provider.
2020-05-09 15:56:00 Hongqiao,Shanghai,China / Shipment arrived at facility and measured.
2020-05-09 15:56:00 Hongqiao,Shanghai,China / 4PX picked up shipment.

Got here yesterday. exactly 2 weeks with the “usa priority” shipping upgrade. Actually delivered by fedex.
I chose ocean shipping on the other recent order… but I think this might be a worthy upgrade :slight_smile:

About 2 months elapsed since I placed this Sofirn/Ali order:

Definitely came on the slow boat.

My K1 light saber has reached the local post office. Should be out for delivery tomorrow. I know which light I’ll be carrying for an evening walk…… :smiling_imp:

I have been waiting for 51 days so far. 10 days ago it finally switched to “CAYVR / Despatched to overseas”. usually that means it should arrive in Canada within a few days but its has been stuck there for a while.

^

You have been waiting more than Twice as long as I. Mine was in LA for 12 days and now it is stuck in New Jersey[2 hours from me] for the last 6 days.All we can do is wait and try to be patient.

I thought once it got to NJ [next step was USPS] that it would be here in 3 or 4 days. Wrong again. :person_facepalming:

Hopefully we will both get our items soon.

EDIT: Actually it has been 32 days since I ordered and 23 days since it was shipped.

I hope no one else is seeing delays due to pitney bowes

17TRACK ALL-IN-ONE PACKAGE TRACKING

In Transit

China
YunExpress
United States
2020-06-03 04:06CLEVELAND,OH 44125, delivered to pitney bowes facility

Destination
Origin - Cached time: 2020-06-04 15:55:47 (GMT-04:00)
2020-06-03 04:06
CLEVELAND,OH 44125, delivered to pitney bowes facility

2020-06-02 01:00
Brook Park,OH 44142, delivered to pitney bowes facility

2020-06-01 16:43
Greenwood,IN 46143, in transit

2020-06-01 15:50
Greenwood,IN 46143-9703, departed pitney bowes facility

2020-06-01 14:22
Greenwood,IN 46143, picked up

2020-06-01 14:00
Greenwood,IN 46143, in transit

2020-06-01 13:16
CLEVELAND,OH 44125, picked up and processed by agent

2020-06-01 07:24
Greenwood,IN 46143-9703, arrived at pitney bowes facility

2020-05-29 23:02
Greenwood,IN 46143, delivered to pitney bowes facility

2020-05-29 09:28
affected by the coronavirus pandemic, package delivery will be delayed, please wait patiently.

2020-05-28 12:30
COMMERCE,CA 90040, in transit

2020-05-28 11:00
COMMERCE,CA 90040, picked up

2020-05-28 03:48
COMMERCE,CA 90040-3416, departed pitney bowes facility

2020-05-27 09:55
COMMERCE,CA 90040-3416, inducted into network

2020-05-13 15:52
LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, delivery to local courier

2020-05-06 17:40
LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Clearance processing complete at GATEWAY

2020-05-05 18:15
LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Arrived at AIRPORT of Destination,Custom clearance in processing.

2020-05-05 06:30
CHINA, Departure to destination country

2020-05-03 11:00
CHINA, Arrive at international airport to abroad

2020-05-03 09:00
GUANGZHOU, Departed Facility In processing center

2020-05-02 20:33
GUANGZHOU, Shipment has been processed in operational center

2020-04-30 21:27
GUANGZHOU, Arrived at Sort Facility GUANGZHOU

2020-04-30 11:49
Shipment information received

^

Wow, that is a lot of scans. Hopefully you live near Cleveland and get it soon.

I just got my K1 today.

36 days from Order to door and 26 days of travel time.

I just noticed. Why did it go from Cleveland,OH to Greenwood, Indiana and back to Cleveland? Crazy.

I live in the 44125 zip code area. I have no idea where they’ll send it next but I’d bet it won’t be the post office that serves this zip code.

The suffering us flashaholics have to go through,

I was born in Parma. On this day in 1960 :open_mouth:

My grandmom lived in 44144 zip code. Gifford avenue

Happy Birthday! :beer:

Thanks. Time goes very fast. Enjoy each day.

Pretty sure the majority of members on here are much younger than I,20’s,30’s and 40’s. My guess is the average age is around 30/35.

Maybe I should start a thread about that. :partying_face: