As an FYI to interested parties - if you ordered more than 30 days ago and used a credit card, then the order lodged by MPD with your card company will have expired - so they (MPD) are obliged to reconfirm card details with the card holder. This probably explains why so many people appear to be "jumping the queue" - if their order was within the last 30 days then any credit card stuff will still be valid and so their order will have gone out. The "early birds" have to be phoned up which takes time - my conversation took 5 minutes (according to my phone) so multiply that by 200 (best case) or 500 (conservative worst case) and divide it by 3 (number of people handling the orders at MPD) and you can see where the delay comes from. So if you think the above applies to you make sure you are near the contact phone that you gave to MPD on your original order.