w00t. Got an email, my 13/11 preorder will allegedly be shipped by the 8th, and will be in the safe hands of my US dropbox sometime after the 10th.

About bloody time too; by the end of the year Bongo will start charging me $5/day for storing the bloody iPod that Amazon helpfully shipped seperately (despite asking NOT to), and two weeks after that they'll probably invoke the clause allowing them to set fire to my goods and sell the charred remains on eBay.