What is up with shipping from China recently?

[z80]

I got my Super Sea-Dweller tracking # from Angus a week ago today and it still looks like it's in China.. It bounced from one place to another and now it's at: "Origin Post is Preparing Shipment" I've never seen that message, and this on the USPS side, so they transmitted details to USPS, but it looks like the package is having a hard time getting off the gound. I thought EMS was Express??

[Corgi]

These tracking systems can be very confusing, oftentimes telling you the package is still in China when you are already unpacking it in North America.... just wait patiently and it will come. The longest time I waited for a watch: 3 weeks.

[piratedzeus]

Well I win anyway: Mail from China by SHIP 7 weeks.

[SportsterRider]

I got my Super Sea-Dweller tracking # from Angus a week ago today and it still looks like it's in China.. It bounced from one place to another and now it's at: "Origin Post is Preparing Shipment" I've never seen that message, and this on the USPS side, so they transmitted details to USPS, but it looks like the package is having a hard time getting off the gound. I thought EMS was Express??

I've also got a SSD coming (from Trusty) and USPS is giving me the same message. I've also never seen it before, but the update directly before that is the typical 'foreign international dispatch'. It could be just new wording from USPS?

As folks have said before, it's best to just wait it out. I've had stuff from Guangzhou get here (east coast) in as little as 5 days, and as long as 14 days. Until you get into a 30 day wait, it falls into the 'normal' category and is nothing to worry about.