Glad it turned up but I am not surprised.
When I saw the original date on the post, I thought immediately of my daughters who were in London a few years back. They both posted identical sleeping bags home at the same time, same cost, same postal worker.
One bag arrived within the week.
The other one arrived about 3 months later, a couple of months after the girls were home. We had given up on it.
So when I saw you had originally posted about this in Sept, I was thinking... give it another 3 months, you never know.
@lyndal1838 wrote:It certainly sounds like it, doesn't it.
At least you now know how long Surface Mail takes from the UK.....about the same as it was taking 12 years ago when a seller sent several items by Surface Mail because they had under quoted the airmail postage.
Some years ago I was at a local post office waiting to post a parcel to a friend for Christmas. The lone AP staffer was in a very bad mood as she slammed down items and franked letters so heavily it was a wonder the ink didn't go through the paper.
My turn and she sighed loudly , measured the parcel, weighed it a couple of times then gave me a customs form to fill out. When I started to protest she gave me a nasty look and made it clear it was fill out the form or no service at all. I didn't know how much postage was and it wouldn't have fitted through the outside post box so I gritted my teeth, filled it out and stuck it on the parcel. She told me the postage cost and I handed over the money.
And after that off went my parcel......to Canberra. 
