Actually, so far we have only had action on orders placed on the day of the keynote, so I don't think you have it quite right there.
As for the 5-8 days, it won't take that long (so long as your Air ships before Chinese New Year begins on Feb. 7).
Well I placed mine directly after the keynote!! NOT FAIR
Oh as for 5-8 days. Trust me I know UPS & TNT delivery times from China. That figure is truly optomistic. TNT are better than UPS, but that's not hard. Nearly every order I've had delivered via UPS has got lost along the way.
The last macbook we ordered took 3 weeks to get to us. It took about 5 days to get to the UK, and then UPS bodged up everything after that.
This is not BS! Sadly
The machine came in from UK - Dublin, then Dublin - UK, then UK - Germany, then Germany - UK, then uK - Belfast, then Belfast - UK, then UK to Shannon (yay! right airport), then Shannon to UK
, then UK to Dublin
, then Dublin - Belfast,
then Belfast - UK,
then finally UK - Shannon and then out for delivery....
I kid you not...
They even lost my last order for Leopard too, and Apple ended up refunding me 40 for the problems with delivery.
Seriously UPS are the worst delivery agent ever. I am praying when my MBA does ship that it comes in via TNT otherwise I may just have a nervous breakdown