BTW Took it 7 days to get from Germany to the U.S. Guessing they shipped it around the Horn for christs sake.
I order quite a bit of stuff from the US and it takes a really random amount of time to get to England. Some stuff takes just three days or so door-to-door but some couriers regularly take 10-20 days and I do wonder what they're doing. Looking at the tracking history it seems that anything that goes through Chicago international has a compulsory randomly-long wait of several days (and I've seen it described as "The Postal Black Hole") and some sorting centres seem to like to play ping-pong with packages: a recent one enjoyed a nice sightseeing trip as it went around New York state several times.
