I do most of my buying from Amazon now. Whatever I buy directly from them will probably arrive within a day or two. If it's from one of their many third party vendors, it can take weeks or months. It's interesting to track the package online to see where the hold ups are.
I just ordered on 3/30 wire markers to number wires. Delivery estimated at May 25 through June 10. They must weigh about an ounce total. Don't know why they don't plan to mail them.
DRGWGJCOI ordered 10 Mubachi FK-280SA-14200 from a place that claimed to have some instock. It was less than $4 a piece with shipping so I took a chance. Interestingly it cam accross the ocean and through LA with no problem.
Who did you order from? I've been looking for these motors for some time but the supply seems to have totally dried up. I had six on order but they were never received.
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I buy off eBay for almost all my needs because all of the places I have bought from for years have closed. No electronic parts stores anymore and only one RC Hobby Shop left that stock a tiny amount of train items left in Bakersfield.So far I guess I’ve been lucky, no long delays in shipping. My China eBay orders have all been within the eBay shipping times and some have been faster than US orders. My recent US orders have been very fast, all ahead of promised time. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
There's no aspect of the logistics chain that isn't disrupted or hasn't been disrupted for a year now.
The conversation out there now, is shipping continer shortages.
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I ordered 10 Mubachi FK-280SA-14200 from a place that claimed to have some instock. It was less than $4 a piece with shipping so I took a chance. Interestingly it cam accross the ocean and through LA with no problem. But according to USPS tracking it has been moving within the system heading to it's next destination since the 17th of March when it was at Pocatello ID.
Yep. Just read an article on how a bunch of container ships are sitting in San Francisco bay waiting for the spots at the port of Oakland to open up and they are delays there. It isn't as if we have been waiting on our toys for weeks, months and years. This will just add to it. I guess this is something for us to jaw about.
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A lot of people are probably already aware of this but I saw a story on NewsNation last night that Covid-19 has reduced manpower at the LA Port causing a back up of ships waiting to be unloaded. Although unrelated to last week's blockage in the Suez Canal last week, the effect is the same. Hundreds of container ships are sitting idly off the southern California coast waiting for their turn to get unloaded. Since much of our hobby's products come from China, this is undoubtedly affecting the supply chain. I'm seeing more and more items on Walthers website listed as Out of Stock. It's also affecting retail sales as well. I bought a set of traffic lights through Amazon last month and right from the start I realized it would be more than a month for it to be delivered when I saw it was being sent by a slow boat from China. Now we also have the bottleneck at the LA Port so there's no telling when the item might arrive. Fortunately, it's an item I don't have to have immediately.