Just made an account to chime in. Idk wtf is going on in California but a lot of people have their orders stuck. Including me my orders in stuck in California for 6 days now
I've been ordering from China for a few years now (pandemic + the UKR/RUS war has changed my business plan from EU to China & southeast Asia.
@Jgrocks12,
Regarding STUCK ORDERS:
There are many many many methods, companies, and routes your Chinese vendor can use. They seem to have COUNTLESS options down like Charlie Brown!!!!!
Rookies seem to use basic EMS to USPS -- thru LAX, right? During the pandemic, they had to use cargo ships, thru Indonesia/Singapore, then thru random Pacific Ocean / Indian Ocean islands, then thru Germany, back thru NYC, THEN to Cali!! I sh*t you not!!! These routes took 6-7 full weeks during the pandemic lockdowns!!! Orders would just sit at random islands for 3 weeks BAKING in the Pacific summer sun
Nowadays, that same Chinese team sends their packages thru Canada, crossing stateside thru North Dakota/Idaho!!! Delivery now in 10-12 days! Record: 6!!! I can show you the damn USPS TN
LAX Customs sucks; takes 2-3 weeks at times; and obviously crooked people work there. Then after that -- I've had packages get stuck at SANTA CLARITA many many MANY times for 5-6 days + more. One package even disappeared (stopped tracking altogether); then randomly showed up 2 months later!! SANTA CLARITA, man... SoCal USPS in general SUCKS when it comes to Chinese EMS.
........ Perhaps our US fentanyl epidemic has something to do with this, no ....... ?