For anybody who ordered recently and is wondering (like I was), I ordered 09/12/2009 22:00 and just got status change to ready for despatch. So it looks like they have caught up with all the preorders and are not far off up to date with recent orders. Sounds like I may get mine tomorrow, or should be by Monday.

When I was a postie, Special Deliveries were made on Saturdays, just not guaranteed to be, and van drivers took anything the size of a shoe box and bigger (but this depended on how nice your van driver was - got lumbered with some bigguns to walk about with on several occasions). Rest assured though if yours gets stuck in a delivery office over the weekend, it should be safe with Special Delivery because it is tracked at every part of its journey and is kept locked away separate from normal mail.

Good luck getting yours tomorrow everybody.