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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 4288516" data-attributes="member: 59082">Good news for myself as well (finally!). &quot;My Account&quot; page says the set was shipped today and should arrive by June 18th--but the thing is, it is currently in Denver and I'm about 20 miles west of Denver, so I'm expecting tomorrow or the next day.Now the annoying thing is--not for myself, but for pre-orderers--is that I HAD pre-ordered but cancelled and re-ordered on the 7th so that I could apply a $5 off &quot;Complaint Promotion&quot;. June 7th isn't a pre-order, and some folks that ordered months in advance have been pushed back to July.Now I think there is an explanation, but it is purely conjecture. Amazon has about a dozen &quot;fulfillment centers&quot; throughout the US. My guess is that the centers serve different regions and that shipping estimates have something to do with what your &quot;local&quot; fulfillment center has on hand. Maybe if, for example, Kansas (the closest one to me) has extra copies and Delaware is out, if you live in Baltimore you are out of luck--at least until some excess gets transferred from Kansas. In other words, it may be that Amazon has to do &quot;in-house&quot; transfers before shipping an item to a customer, rather than just shipping a copy from Kansas to Baltimore.Of course I could be way off base; I'm just trying to figure out why I'm getting a copy this week, despite (re-) ordering on June 7th while, say, F5 and numerous others have to wait. Anyone have any other guesses?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 4288516, member: 59082"] Good news for myself as well (finally!). "My Account" page says the set was shipped today and should arrive by June 18th--but the thing is, it is currently in Denver and I'm about 20 miles west of Denver, so I'm expecting tomorrow or the next day. Now the annoying thing is--not for myself, but for pre-orderers--is that I HAD pre-ordered but cancelled and re-ordered on the 7th so that I could apply a $5 off "Complaint Promotion". June 7th isn't a pre-order, and some folks that ordered months in advance have been pushed back to July. Now I think there is an explanation, but it is purely conjecture. Amazon has about a dozen "fulfillment centers" throughout the US. My guess is that the centers serve different regions and that shipping estimates have something to do with what your "local" fulfillment center has on hand. Maybe if, for example, Kansas (the closest one to me) has extra copies and Delaware is out, if you live in Baltimore you are out of luck--at least until some excess gets transferred from Kansas. In other words, it may be that Amazon has to do "in-house" transfers before shipping an item to a customer, rather than just shipping a copy from Kansas to Baltimore. Of course I could be way off base; I'm just trying to figure out why I'm getting a copy this week, despite (re-) ordering on June 7th while, say, F5 and numerous others have to wait. Anyone have any other guesses? [/QUOTE]

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