Fasttech did the same with my little cheapie emitter+ Al stars too.
Not mine. Three XM-L2’s in the little plastic anti-static bags inside a mailer.
Just got an order today, 2 weeks - ordered 11/11, shipped 11/12 - love it! Great deal on bare XM-L2 LED's!! 
Months ago one of my first IOS orders the emmiters were also in a film canister, however there were a couple of potential problems, the lid had popped off due to obvious rough handling from postal equipment that had also worn a small hole right through the bubble wrap envelope. The hole was almost as big as the emitters, so they could have fallen out, but luckily they didn’t. I gave Hank a head’s up, and since then it looks like he’s been taping the film canisters closed.
1st order 37 days still noting arrived.
2nd order… should not have ordered.
3rd order, … not ordering.
Personally if it’s free shipping I have no reason to complain, my last IOS order was quick compared to FT etc
I ordered a 32650 charger on the 23, got it today. So a month for me.
Solarforce sent my 5 mode XML2-U2 P60 drop in:
I got mine I a small. Threaded clear plastic container,sorry I tried to upload pictures from photo bucket and they changed so anyone who has Ice Cream android,system acter I just figured it can’t upload dang it!!!
For me it has changed hugely since all these stuff arounds with the international post. I used to get orders the quickest from WB, then IOS and FT were the slowest. It seems now that WB and FT are about the same, both slow, and IOS is the slowest. But IOS has the best range of components, so I keep going back! haha
Speed really doesn't matter to me .I am comforted to know that ios is a solid player who will take care of any problems I have ..never track shipments they come when they come and thats life .My guess is they are a little over 3 weeks .Like I said I'm comforted to know I don't need to start sweating a paypal dispute .Ilike dealing with a company that will take care of business .So far ios is 100% .thats rare for chinese vendors imho
What has always bothered me is when a vendor says that the parcel has been posted on a given date and when I receive the parcel 5 weeks later, I see that the real posting stamp date is 2 weeks later than what they claimed. I don’t mind waiting for processing time, but deliberately lying about the posting date is a no no.
Normally it takes 2-3 weeks for a parcel to arrive, so when it’s still not here after 5 weeks, I know something is not right.
I ordered a host and noctigon (no cells) on the 4th Nov - dispactched 5th Nov and still waiting. I know I should be patient but really would be happy to pay extra to receive things within 2 weeks in the future.
still waiting for my Qlite driver and a XML2 NW led to arrive,time would tell if it ever arrive 
Subject of this thread -- IOS 
, I'm Overjoyed with hanks' Shipping.. Must be the location: Lawnga Island (that's a NY accent...)
But the problem is, is this delay the result of the Chinese Postal Services, or IOS? Perhaps it may take 3 days to get the order out, but that still only represents perhaps 10% of the total shipping time we are commonly seeing reported.
Order placed 19 November arrived 09 December Singapore Post to New Zealand.
Fast enough.
Shipping time: Longer than everyone else.
Some chinese sites seem to hire a separate company to do the actual fulfillment / shipping. Fasttech has separate entity / company do it for them.
Placed an order on 17th November and it arrived 9th December, so pretty much 3 weeks.
That is currently faster than items are getting to me from any of the other vendors.