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#2707757 15-May-2021 04:37

neb: Not Aliexpress but Amazon: Ordered Saturday, shipped Sunday, delivered Thursday. That's pretty damn impressive, even pre-Covid it'd take far longer than that.

Depends if it's coming from their "chinese" warehouse then it's going to take 3 months. But if it ships from US, less than a week

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#2707763 15-May-2021 07:38

Just bought the HOTO 24 in 1 screwdriver for ~NZ$17 delivered on free '13-20 standard aliexpress shipping'. Will it arrive within three weeks? time will tell.

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#2707777 15-May-2021 09:20

Wakrak:

Just bought the HOTO 24 in 1 screwdriver for ~NZ$17 delivered on free '13-20 standard aliexpress shipping'. Will it arrive within three weeks? time will tell.

Shortest I had Aliexpress standard is 50 days (over the last year). It looks like they get consolidated into a container and shipped on a boat.

China Post Registered/UBI/EMS epacket are the only ones I personally had delivered less than 30 days.

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#2707778 15-May-2021 09:29

Have multiple orders in play - several delivered in recent weeks/months - average delivery time seems to be about 3 weeks - so pretty much back to normal.

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#2708334 17-May-2021 10:09

Ordered a couple of silicon key covers.

Last 2 updates show:

2021-05-04 21:55 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand

2021-04-10 00:20 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand

They left twice?

Suppose they might turn up eventually - not particularly expensive or important items fortunately.

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#2708350 17-May-2021 11:12

If you use a tracker like track24.net you will probably see each event and the originator.

I think they substitute the same generic event code from each service.

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#2708507 17-May-2021 16:25

robjg63:

2021-05-04 21:55 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand 2021-04-10 00:20 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand

They left twice?

Probably an issue with the auto language translator ?

My item last week showed as ~Plan airport departure~ (..3 days in the future)
When the tracking info was expanded it showed as ~departed~ ( .. 3 days in the future)

Of course that ~plan airport departure~ date has now passed & no further updates to the tracking. So Im guessing it stalled & will be sitting
somewhere for some time.

Ive been lucky so far, 3-6 weeks for my orders , not incl the 1 week delay in sending the goods .
Except orders where they actually had no stock & gave a bogus tracking number , then finally refund after 2 months.
However , one seller was honest , admitted stock unavailable & refunded promptly . Although he only contacted me via Ali message centre , not via email.

So regularly check your message centre in Aliexpress .

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#2708511 17-May-2021 16:30

1101:
Probably an issue with the auto language translator ?

Quite a bit of information seems to be lost in translation, or through the use of standard event codes with overlapping meanings. I use two different tracking apps (one often tracks stuff the other won't) and in the case where both are tracking an item you can get completely different reports on what each step of the process is.

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#2708512 17-May-2021 16:32

Recently I had an ePacket order take approx 2 weeks with great tracking, while an Aliexpress Shipping order is currently at Week 5 and none of the package trackers have shown updates for around 4 weeks.

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smalltrader

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#2708541 17-May-2021 17:42

robjg63:

Ordered a couple of silicon key covers.

Last 2 updates show:

2021-05-04 21:55 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand 2021-04-10 00:20 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand

They left twice?

Suppose they might turn up eventually - not particularly expensive or important items fortunately.

AliExpress is the wild west of shipping logistics. Besides consolidation, the other reason they can keep costs down is to use multiple low cost logistics for both short and long haul. If you use something like Track24.net you would see that they could UBI, Caniao, 4PX, Singapore Post All the different logistics providers use different tracking systems. What AliExpress is trying to do is to consolidate the tracking information and present it to you. The translation of tracking information is not perfect.

For example, I recently have a parcel which has two "91094210311903967673Departed from Country of Origin". The first "91094210311903967673Departed from Country of Origin" is from China to Singapore. The second "91094210311903967673Departed from Country of Origin" is from Singapore to Auckland. Confusing but makes sense once you understand how the logistics network works.

In comparison, Amazon usually only use one logistic provider to send end to end. It is DHL, or iParcel and they have full control of the logistics tracking information. However, Amazon shipping can easily be USD 20 t0 USD 40 even for small things whereas AliExpress is often $4 to $8 NZD for shipping small things.

smalltrader

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#2708909 18-May-2021 11:16

smalltrader:

robjg63:

Ordered a couple of silicon key covers.

Last 2 updates show:

2021-05-04 21:55 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand 2021-04-10 00:20 China, Guangzhou, Departure from country of origin. Your item is in transit to New Zealand

They left twice?

Suppose they might turn up eventually - not particularly expensive or important items fortunately.

=> Repost. Had problem with previous posting.

AliExpress is the wild west of shipping logistics. Besides consolidation, the other reason they can keep costs down is to use multiple low cost logistics providers for both short and long haul. If you use something like Track24.net you would see that they could UBI, Caniao, 4PX, Singapore Post. All the different logistics providers use different tracking systems. What AliExpress is doing is to consolidate the tracking information and present it to you. The translation of tracking information from the different providers is not perfect.

For example, I recently have a parcel which has two "Departed Country of Origin". In fact one "Departed Country of Origin" is from China to Singapore and the second one is from Singapore to NZ. The tracking information is confusing but makes sense once you know the underlying logistics providers.91094210311903967673Departed from Country of Origin". The first "91094210311903967673Departed from Country of Origin" is from China to Singapore. The second "91094210311903967673Departed from Country of Origin" is from Singapore to Auckland. Confusing but makes sense once you understand how the logistics network works.

In comparison, Amazon usually only use one logistic provider to send end to end. It is DHL, or iParcel and Amazon has full control of the logistics tracking information. However, Amazon shipping can easily be USD $20 t0 USD $40 even for small things whereas AliExpress is often $4 to $8 NZD for shipping small things.

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#2709957 20-May-2021 07:31

My epackage showed up, 3 weeks to get here, another week and a half to get pass customs...

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#2710549 21-May-2021 09:35

Sigh...

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#2710578 21-May-2021 10:12

Gurezaemon:

Sigh...

Sadly, average delivery time frame of 2 months is pretty much the norm now with AliExpress Standard Shipping. I suspect the long haul is by slow boat despite the tracking showing "Airline". No way an airline is going to take two months even taking in consideration they do bulking container. shipping. It is disingenuous as AliExpress is still saying "delivery within 13 - 20 days" for Standard Shipping when the long haul is by boat.

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#2710586 21-May-2021 10:19

smalltrader:

Gurezaemon:

Sigh...

Sadly, average delivery time frame of 2 months is pretty much the norm now with AliExpress Standard Shipping. I suspect the long haul is by slow boat despite the tracking showing "Airline". No way an airline is going to take two months even taking in consideration they do bulking container. shipping. It is disingenuous as AliExpress is still saying "delivery within 13 - 20 days" for Standard Shipping when the long haul is by boat.

The long delivery time I can (kinda) deal with. But the seemingly random nature of updates annoys me.
Is there any way to reliably get even cheap (not particularly fast, but faster than container) air freight from Ali or other such vendors?

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