Sloooooooow(er) Processing of TR-100 Orders

[DoubleActionCHL]

I'm in the same boat. We ordered 100 TR-100s and Packets the first week of March. Got the TR-100s in two or three days. Still waiting on the packets.

[Greybeard]

Order for 20 packets submitted back in March finally arrived last Saturday (May 17).

They had used a box from some other shipment and had not removed or redacted the prior shipping label. The new label said "Time Sensitive Material" and evidently had been floating around in the mail since shipment in late April - somewhere between Austin, Oklahoma City and Minnesota ...

And this one was back to "assembly required".

[Greybeard]

Packet order from March 30 finally arrived today. Reeeeeeediculousy! Assembly required, again.
Their delays put the scare on me a couple of months ago and I started putting more orders "in the system". Still waitin' for 20 from 4-18-08 order, 20 from 4-21-08 and 20 from 5-9-08 ...

[Greybeard]

April 18 order arrived yesterday. Right at ...... 8 weeks, so hey, they may be getting "unburied". Even completely assembled this time.

[Greybeard]

April 21 packet order arrived yesterday. Back to "Assembly Required".

[neal6325]

Is there anyone with current estimates on orders or experience? I placed one today and am trying to gauge when they will arrive.

[Crossfire]

Well, you can't get much more recent than Greybeard's experience of June 21.

My last order was in May. TR100s arrived in about 10 days. Still waiting on the packets....

[Greybeard]

The packets for the order on Friday, May 9 has still not arrived. Assuming they got it in the mail on Monday, the 12'th, my calendar indicates that order has been "in the system" for 7 full "work weeks" - so far.

[lrb111]

TR-100s ordered Saturday June 28, online. Received July 8th. So 4 work days one week, and two in the next after a holiday weekend. 6 work days.
packets? we don't need no stinkin packets....

[neal6325]

Ordered mine online June 30 and got them July 8. No packets however yet.

[Greybeard]

Neal -

Lotsaluck with that one, especially if it's your first and you have no "back-up" inventory of packets. Thankfully, I'm not in a bind just now as it's been a full 2 months today on my May 9 order and they are still not here. Your best bet in the meantime will probably be to try and get your students to obtain the packets directly from DPS.

I put in another presently unneeded order a few days ago for another 20 of each "just in case" - and to hopefully get packets delivery in ... August? September? October? FWIW, I sometimes find need to "canabalize" a few packets each month to take care of renewal students who, for various reasons, do not yet have their packets in hand on the day of class.

Front page article on yesterday's Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 1afcb.html
so we ain't the only ones waitin' and waintin' and waintin' ...

[Greybeard]

"Normal" size box (not a bunch of air in this one) with 20 packets left on doorstep last Friday. May 9 order? If so, an even 10 weeks from date mailed until date received.

[neal6325]

Got enough stuff to build 20 packets today, ordered June 30.

[lrb111]

50 packets that were ordered online June 28 arrived Tuesday July 22, About a month.
Short one fingerprint card.