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Shipping from overseas - true time?

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Hi, I am waiting on roughly 37 packages to arrive from China, Hong Kong and Singapore on economy delivery they quoted 14-21 days, just wondered what the actual time taken is from peoples experience?
Also waiting for an 'expediated' (!) parcel, they said 4-8 days, just wanted to ask if this is an accurate estimation?
Thank you!

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  • Oliver14
    Oliver14 Posts: 5,878 Forumite
    Soolin was quoting th eother day that hers were taking about 30 days. Just keep an eye on your dispute timelines in case you need to open one.
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  • Thnaks, was getting a bit twitchy because most of them have gone over what they quoted now, just checking - its 45 days for an INR claim?
  • soolin
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    piglet25 wrote: »
    Thnaks, was getting a bit twitchy because most of them have gone over what they quoted now, just checking - its 45 days for an INR claim?

    What I am currently doing is email a basic 'hi my item hasn't arrived yet ' email on about day 30, they usually ask you to wait a week and then let them know if item still hasn't arrived, and that means you can wait the week and still be within the 45 day claim time frme.

    I am still getting some items arrive in around 3 weeks, but I've also had some take up to 48 days, which is after I've received a refund so I have had to repay the seller. There seems to be some quite serious issues with post from the Far east at the moment.
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