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please tell me that for the MM’s you did use the Baite shop on aliexpress ?
i don’t think i’ve ever had a package even take 2 months from the far east, a few have had delivery windows that long(60days). that’s in about 2.5yrs.

i’m fairly sure a ship or plane has just arrived as i have 2 cards from the post office advising parcels/packages too large for
letter box. almost certainly both are dupont leads, but then again they could be 2 off nrf24 with big aerials or 2 off 3.2″ LCD; the LCD’s were ordered 19/2
.
none of my orders still to be delivered are older than maybe 5 weeks. oldest is 30/1, youngest 19/2

stephen

Stephen,

The issue is not just the Baite MM orders. I had many orders with tracking. All but one or two of those many orders arrived in Canada in very good time, but sat for weeks before many were delivered. Many weeks meaning in Canada for delivery to Toronto, not some igloo near the North Pole needing a sled and dogs to deliver, for 7-8+ weeks before actually delivered. In fact some orders showing as in Canada now for almost 3 months are not delivered still.

Prior to September 2016 orders typically arrived in about 30-40 days. This parallels your experiences.

Since September 2016 somthing has gone very seriously wrong with delivery to at leat me and that means to Toronto. This as you can deduce is not seller specific as these orders were across many different sellers. For example my STLink is now going on 28 weeks.

I have sellers extending delivery time expectations by 60 days at a time. It is just insane what has been going on in last few months from AliExpress sellers related to delivery times. I am certain this is not a seller problem. It even happens with AliExpress Delivery.

I have discussed the issues with AliExpress. So far AliExpress is happy I am telling them about the bucket examples such as in Canada for weeks, registered delivery full tracking failing as well just as badly, the odd few items that arrive near the 60 days, and the few that arrive in 2-4 weeks. This does not even dent the surface of the problems that have occurred since Spetember 2016.

Prior to September 2016 all was fine at 14 – 40 days delivery all via free shipping.

If you look at AliExpress listings now there are many more sellers charging for shipping than prior. Some of the shipping costs are sigigifant like $1.40 for a $1.00 item that never had shipping costs. The MM now has about a $1.40 shipping cost it never had prior to mid Fall last year. I believe many sellers are now charging shipping that never did prior is related to the problems that started last Fall that so far AliExpress does not seem to be trying to understand or find out the problems and solve them.

The number and actual shipping costs being charged by sellers hurts all as the extra shipping costs factor into decisions to purchase and I suspect still will not solve the problems that were never seller problems to start with.

I know the extra shipping costs and how those shipping costs are often scaled on quanity orders are factoring into my decision to make or not make a purchase. For now I have not placed any AliExpress orders due to the mess of about 30 orders I had since September 2016 that have presented nothing but challenges in many ways and still many have not arrived going on 9+ weeks.

Regards,

John L. Males
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
03 March 2017 12:55 EST

Things never take that long to arrive.

4 weeks is the worst case for me. If its not here in 4 weeks, it is almost certainly lost in the post.

It sounds like an issue related to your local postal service, as I am pretty sure no one else on the forum has to wait that long.

it could be down to every package being examined in some way, hence a gross slowdown ?
when i watch some of the ‘border control’ documentaries / programmes, i’m always seeing parcels being x-rayed
and having long lines laid out for examination by a sniffer dog.

maybe its been stepped up by a notch or two

stephen

zmemw16 wrote:it could be down to every package being examined in some way, hence a gross slowdown ?
when i watch some of the ‘border control’ documentaries / programmes, i’m always seeing parcels being x-rayed
and having long lines laid out for examination by a sniffer dog.

maybe its been stepped up by a notch or two

stephen

actually most of the tv seem to be in approx order, Australia & US, UK.
for the police type shows pretty close are Australia & US, UK third.

stephen

i used to tell M & D that my monitor was my TV and i decide what i want to watch on it.
yes i do have kaffeine running, so it is my TV. i also have 10 desktops, mainly firefox and konsoles.

most of the time, i’m usually communing with forum, github, joe, makefiles, libopencm3, unicore-mx and arduino_stm32, also amazon kindle unlimited, ebay, aliexpress, pysol(anyone better than 1m 14s klondike?); but they’re not in any particular order. tv, taggart, prime suspect, lewis, morse, marple, new tricks and docu’s if none are on and they’re being saved anyway.

stephen

Its definitely due to the fentanyl crackdown by Canada Post.