Don't use the slow shipping from HC

[simplechamp]

I recently ordered some ceramic diff balls from HK. Like most of you guys I pretty much always use EMS Express, and have never had any problems. Well, since the diff balls were only around $10 I chose the standard air mail and it took almost a month to get here. Supposedly they are bogged down with packages, but who knows whats going on, here is what the seller sent me:

"Hi Jason,
Sorry to inform you,your parcel will be delayed, I arranged your parcel by HONGKONG POST on 31st,OCT. Tracking no.:RT038927749HK,I tracked the parcel yesterday and found the parcel still in HONGKONG waiting for the airplane.
I send email to HK POST service center last night concerning your parcel,their reply is:from September,HK post receive a plenty of international airmail parcels requests,the quantity is beyond their working capacity,so a lot of parcels were waiting for ship,they did some action to fix this problem,for example they rent airplane by themself to ship the parcels to somewhere.But it is still slow. They asked me to be more patient on this.
So I think you need wait more days for the parcel, but I think you will receive it before 20th,Nov. I will send email when the parcel have update information. Sorry again."