I remember ordering edible frankincense and myrrh (labdanum) resin from Crete three or four years ago. It took a lot longer than I'd hoped, and I did send off an email to the guy in Crete after a couple of weeks to check on the order status, how it had been sent, etc.
He replied back that it had been sent by airmail but without tracking. I mentally shrugged my shoulders and resigned myself to waiting. I knew that if the resins didn't arrive, I could initiate a chargeback, but I also knew how long postage/shipment from Crete could take. (Ages.)
My resins arrived - too late for what I'd planned, but never mind... I'll just host another Georgian Christmas party one of these days and use the resins to flavour some ice-creams made from authentic 17th/18th century recipes. I'd also managed to get hold of some genuine ambergris (obtained by the seller before 1979) for a "wow" experience! I have most of it still, which is good as we are now not permitted to import ambergris into Australia, darn it.
My stance on ordered items coming from overseas is... don't sweat the postage time. It takes however long it takes, and there are many things that can affect the shipping time. I set a generous maximum time, and don't become worried until that time has been reached. (It's a little different if the item is being sent tracked, by a fast method, from a location that isn't notorious for slow postage times, of course... I would probably check on its progress intermittently, eager to see the parcel come into my waiting hands.)
