on 6/7/2013, and, from USPS tracking, it looks like it’s arriving today (6/13) in the mail!
That’s like 6 days elapsed time!
Here’s the tracking:
I ordered several other lights the same time from Ebay, and they’re all at different stages, and none appear to have even arrived in the U.S. yet.
How is this even possible? I mean, on average, even FastTech orders take an average of about 12-13 days in the past for me, and this one took 6 days elapsed?
One of my orders from FastTech took three days (airmail tracked)!
Shipped Friday, April 12, 2013 9:29:58 AM
The item (RT1750XXXXXHK) arrived at its destination country on 15-Apr-2013. It was actually delivered that Monday morning.
Your package just happened to hit everything at the right time. Got delivered to post quickly, customs didnt feel like delaying it/had a light load/bribes were paid in China by sender? (not sure, but I know in some countries it works like this) post was ready to leave dock with room on a faster ship right when it got there, customs didnt feel like delaying it, and your post office happened to do their job quickly and it hit with correct timing to get land transport just leaving too. I have had that happen as well, and then the next package takes 2 weeks…I think what ship has room at the time it gets to the dock in China is the biggest variable, along with customs.
I think I could get a package here in southern California in 5 days if the stars aligned. I'd have to order it first thing in the business week, they'd have to ship immediately, and customs would let it breeze through.
I thought I was going to have a package in 6 days including a weekend, but it has disappeared into the US Customs blackhole since April 26th. 6 days is turning into 60. Damn.
Noted. Because the leg from China is by plane and goes to regional ports, I'd say it's equally impressive. Well, that shipment is more impressive because my 5 & 6 day shipments haven't happened yet.
I just received a knife I ordered off Ebay (Hellogiftshop) and received it in 7 days! Shipped China Post ePacket. Only time I've ever had China delivery in less than two weeks.
I ordered my Solarforce S2200 on May 14th, got it on the 20th in Texas. It’s actually kind of funny…I was trying to order it on the night of the 13th but PayPal had issues so I just got out of it and figured I’d wait for reviews. The next morning Solarforce had sent me an email saying it had shipped, please pay the PayPal invoice. lol Within a couple of hours of that email, they went on 2 week vacation and my light was not only one of the first shipped, but I got to enjoy it while no one else could get one!
The irony there? I had decided I didn’t want it, so it came really fast! The things I really want, take forever to get here. hahahahaha
So THAT is what they mean by 'international airmail'! I thought they used really fast boats to get stuff from Asia to CA in less than a full business day! Thanks for explaining that for us.
I thought they used carrier pigeons. As their name implies, those pigeons are meant to be making deliveries, and what better thing for them to carry than a flashlight when flying in the dark.
