On 2017-03-14, slate_leeper wrote:

Some of the items are shipped by the seller or distributer, and do not
come out of Amazon warehouses. If the shipper is overseas, delivery
can take weeks.

I ordered an ink brush pen from Japan. It took 10 days --from Japan!
I ordered a used book from someplace in the Deep South (USA). That
took 4 wks. Both were NOT shipped from an "Amazon warehouse".

nb