Lenton Group lists a number of hubs in the EU on their website, I was hoping they’d fly there directly. The blog post mentions that they entered that partnership out of necessity because there weren’t enough passenger flights at the time. It also focusses on China as the starting point. My guess/hope is that they went back to passenger flights if they ever even used Hainan for Taiwan.
Odd question: how many characters is everyone’s tracking number? DPD’s website keeps giving me an error that the number is formatted incorrectly. Google tells me DPD tracking numbers are typically 12 characters long, whereas mine is 11.
Apparently the fulfilment partner has been making a few mistakes only sending out a few less than needed digits, you should receive a email from DPD though.
Which website is it that you are using there? I don’t recognise it.
I wonder if there’s a situation where it’s a different entity in Taiwan and the text of the updates isn’t transferring through to DPD. Perhaps there’s a Taiwanese courier we don’t know about who’s job it is to get it onto the plane, and then DPD take over.
I also got an overnight Stage 5 email! UK DIY i7, charger included, brought my own SSD. The tracking number works on the DPD website, but the orange button on my order page does not. Really excited!
That looks interesting. I think Oldbury is their HQ and main depot in the UK, so it makes sense for updates to come from there. At a guess I’d either say Taiwanese customs like you say, or possibly they are starting the customs process in the UK early to try and expedite it. I see quite often with Amazon Logistics that the customs process in the UK often starts before the item arrives in the country so that it can be flagged through as quickly as possible on arrival.
Shame they don’t provide an estimated delivery schedule though
I must say I am getting rather impatient to get a tracking number!
@Jason_Hottelet@Colin_D I got my last update at the exact time as you. Initial shipping was on 16th though.
Also something I just noticed: I get different statuses from almost every tracking website, it’s even different when I use the international DPD Website vs. the German one.
Just a Question to those of you in stage 4. How long have you been there?
I have been in stage 4 since the 11th of february and it seems kind of long, since they said, it would be shipped a couple of days later.
Off-topic but in anticipation of UK deliveries being shipped; what is the consensus of the forum, or to put it in another way, a popular recommendation for an eGPU to use with this laptop?
