I ordered a couple of books from a online UK book store on the 20/10/09. The website said at the time I ordered there was a mail strike that effected local mail and not international mail. As they didn't have one of the books in stock for one day, they sent them seperately. One turned up yesertday (9 days) and the other turned up today (10 days). I can't be any more happy then that. Hope your order goes well like mine