[quote name='coolfelix']
Ordered "LeapFrog My Pal Violet Learning Toy" for a relative (baby) on 03/22, it just shipped 04/19. That was fast...[/QUOTE]
Congrats on getting your prize...
But, I am not sure if I would say
"that was fast"... I mean, if you had to wait 29-to-32 days for an Amazon.com order to ship, I doubt you would call that fast...
In this case it was 28 days... So, one day early... That happens from time to time...
For the past year, almost all of my prizes have shipped in the 29-to-32 day window. Every once in a while, a prize ships at 28 days. And from time to time there are prizes that take a bit longer (voted prizes, a few back-orders, etc). Although, there have been quite a few more 28 day prizes reported recently, so I may need go back and adjust that to 28-to-32 days for future orders.
Arvato (the current Bing drop shipper) has been very good a keeping up with the orders since they caught up late 2008. This month they have been shipping an average of 230 prizes each day, which is nothing compared to the 2000+ prizes they were shipping during the peak times last year (all 1500
Black and Decker Drill Sets shipped on 4/23/09 for a total of 2508 Bing prizes shipped that day).