floydbloke:

 

Have had three separate Aliexpress orders that took less than a week to arrive in the last few months.  This pleases me.  They all had a sticker saying it was set from Auckland, and they were all mainstream, small items.

 

Is there a chance they've established some sort of local warehouse/distribution centre, or have I just been lucky.  (In saying that, had a couple of other orders take in excess of two months.)

 

Those stickers are put on in china despite having the laurensce stevens address as the sender. All that happens is the sacks come over here and are dumped onto NZ post as international mail they have to pass on. They seem to get it to my PO box within a day or 2 of them arriving in the country - its the Chinese end that have sped up getting them here.

Luck on when the sack from that sorting area leaves and gets here is the biggest factor. I have had things ordered 3 weeks apart all turn up on the same day and tracking them all showed them get to NZ at the same time.