I am starting to be concerned about a couple of long outstanding orders from China that may be stuck on ships of the South Korean freight shipping line “Hanjin”.
Hanjin recently went into receivership and ships are becoming stranded outside ports due to unpaid fees and charges. Containers are being left sitting in ports. Hanjin carry about one seventh of the worlds shipping containers.
If you have orders outstanding from early August, then you may be in for an extended wait as this mess gets sorted out.
Most of our orders should be by air mail shouldn’t they? From the early reports that I read most of the contents of the ships were commercial quantities of consumer electronics and industrial goods.
If by chance your missing orders are from FastTech, I placed an order earlier this year and it took 47 days to arrive.
I have had orders recd by airmail from BG, GB, Ali, FastTech that have arrived in around 1 week. But if you choose the standard free post/shipping, nothing seems to take less than 30 days. These I am sure get chucked into a big seatainer, and spend two weeks floating south (via Singapore) . That is about how long it will take in transit, then there is the Aussie customs and then AustPost to get it to me.
Things were good in June/July/Aug this year with packages of necessities arriving in just under 4 weeks, but now there is a drought. and I suspect it is the Hanjin problem.
I admit that I probably order less than anyone else on this forum but all my packages from BG and GB have been free shipping with airmail stamps, and ranged between 5 days and 24 days. Then again, they have labeled batteries as chargers on some shipping labels :person_facepalming:
and I suspect it is the Hanjin problem.