G'Day Rodstar,
I have a good idea how you feel, when I ordered my 18" DOB back in Oct 89
the weather was very bad in the US and they could not test it for a few weeks,then I was told it would arrive in Australia before Christmas,to cut a long story short, it was sitting in the Customs Dept for 10 days over the Christmas period but no one told me,Andrew Murrell lent me his station wagon to drive down to Sydney and pick it up from Customs 2nd week in Jan 90,but it was worth the wait,believe me when you get your scope,everything will be forgiven