What is the Hold Up?!

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:

you’re almost 4 yrs older than me. i live about a mile from the properties my grandparents owned when i was born. bohemian/german/hungarian lineage.

I noticed a flashlight I have on route is probably coming by train from China.
Route: Sanmenxia > Wuwei > Shankou (China) > Dostyk > Esil (Cazaquistan Kazakhstan) > Oktyabrsk (Russia).

It left on the 25th May and it is in Russia today (12th June). I guess it will take at least a month more to arrive here !

There was a project called “the new silk way”. It supposed new railways and fast transit through borders, rivers, mountains etc. If it was completed, it could make rail transit from China to EU border much faster, like 7-10 days. In reality, part of infrastructure that had to be improved on Russian territory have been never improved. Railway is very limited type of transport, if you have thousands kms of old railway with slow locomotives, there is no ways to use same railway for faster transports, you need new railways, otherwise there is no room for overtake.
Since China had invested in infrastructure a lot and had a choice in this new sink ways (various ways through different counties), there was several test trips using different ways. Non of them get common because they were not faster than water cargo but at least 2x more expensive.
Probably, today problems with other types of delivery is the reason to try this “new sink way” one more time.

P.S. In English it spells Kazakhstan.

Thank you very much for this explanation kiriba-ru and for the correction! :nerd_face: I corrected my post above :+1: (BTW, in Portuguese it is Cazaquistão!)
I wasn’t aware of this situation and route! As you say, if it was completed, it would be a nice alternative to air transportation (specially in times like these), and even to the “slow” boats.

Maybe this is a new try out and maybe it can become implemented, even if it needs investment to change the railway structures and trains. We would all benefit from renewed train lines!

i’m on 65 days for my 2 orders from hank. they have been stuck on “CAYVR / Despatched to overseas” for 3 weeks now. i have a Sofrin order that shipped may 10th and Canada post just got it today.

Going on 74 days for my KR4 from Hank, Also from Canada I hope my KR1 is shipped with a different method than my KR4.