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JLCPCB shipping backlog?

Anybody else noticed that recently JLCPCB shipping seems snafu'd? The board makes it through the production process at the usual blazing speed, and the delivery by ePacket or DHL is normal speed. But in between it sits in "Waiting for Carrier to pick up" at JLCPCB for several days. Now I'm watching my finished order, with DHL shipping, about to hit the Chinese mid-Autumn holiday without making it out of JLCPCB's shipping dept.

Or was I just unlucky with my last few JLCPCB orders?

Posted Sep 11, 2019, 4:32 PM UTC

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mikeshemp•

I think they might lie about having completed the board when in fact they haven't.

I've made a couple dozen orders from PCBway. Recently, my order made its way through the production process but then got stuck on waiting for shipment for days. I kept writing and they finally admitted that only 3 out of the 5 boards I ordered had passed test and they had to do a second production run for the other 2.

I asked "Then why does it say production is complete" and got no answer.

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toybuilder•

I've had this happen before, too. Similar story. Because I just need two boards out of the entire batch, I told them to ship what passed. (In my case it was PCBWay)

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flaminggarlic•

This week is a Chinese holiday and there tends to be some delay during factory down time. I waited over a week last time but that was for a major holiday (whole week off) this is a minor one (3 days off).

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markus3141•

My order from last week shipped nice and fast, but those suckers at DHL are holding my package back saying "I’m not allowed to import such shipments as a private person“. Yeah sure.

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Xenoamor•

What on earth does that even mean?

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Baashriek•

I ordered 500 pcbs from jlc and they've all come very quickly, 2-3 day production time and 2-3 day shipment time. I just got some yesterday.

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stuartlea1•

I've heard that the unrest in Hong Kong is delaying boards. Well, that's what I heard when my boards from PCBWAY were delayed a few weeks ago.

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askingforeafriend•

Did you have a mix of board types? 2 layer and 4 layer, different colors, impedence matching, etc... I've been wondering if they have multiple locations or outsource for certain runs and have to gather them up from the various locations. My current order took a bit longer but they also had some questions about my order so it's understandable.

I have to hand it to DHL though my boards were in HK yesterday and are going to be on my doorstep in the next couple of hours. I'm in the US.

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rom1nux•

My last order (~1 week) processed as usual 3 days production, 3 days shipping to France (Stencil came 1 day after PCB package)

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lobsterlimits•

They better up their shill game on YouTube some more but maybe banggood is hogging up the airtime recently.

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hikoka•

Got my latest order last tuesday, ordered the tuesday before that. All went as expected.

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e3b0c442•

My experience was somewhat different -- my order sat in Chicago for more than a week, I assume awaiting customs clearance. Annoying as hell.

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quadratictoast•

They just opened their assembly service internationally so they might have some delays while they work out the kinks, additionally its a holiday soon so that might complicate things. Overall I had one order take like 3 days extra but mostly its been pretty timely.

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bside2234•

Made a order on the 10th and the tracking says it was picked up this morning (the 12th) by the shipping carrier. Seems to be moving.

I have another order placed on the 11th that says waiting for carrier to pick up.

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