International Transit Times

No need to search for it. I have worked with Mel Ang at Koetsu SE several times and it has worked out fine. I just don’t know why he used such a slow method for shipping. 

My experience with registered mail from oveseas is that it is slow. I agree with @lewm-- it's on a boat somewhere. And who knows was the post Covid/supply chain/etc. impact is even at this point. There was a period where regular postal business was non-existent between certain places for a while. 

I got a fancy vacuum tube from India not so long ago- a week using the Fedex account of the vendor; ditto, DHL Express, for records from Japan. On the other hand, someone mistakenly sent me a record using Deutsche Post and it took a couple months. Hang in there.

Bill

I have, but not since the whole covid thing. It always seemed like ~ 5 - 7 days in transit. Typically 8 weeks total for the full cycle ship - rebuild - ship. 33 days transit and counting from Singapore is extremely concerning :(

I’m at a jazz festival so can’t help thinking of the Mercer tune, “Slow boat to China”. Only in this case the boat we hope is headed in the opposite direction.

Prob hung up in customs. It does happen. I’ve had both good and bad experiences with overseas shipping. Never have I had a loss though. The package has always come through, one way or another. One, coming from Switzerland took 2.5 months. Should have been about a 5-6 day max shipment.