You are not alone. It works both ways. A friend there sent me a package and my beard grew mightily by the time it got here. I'm waiting on an order from, I think, the only shaving supplier that takes PayPal, to arrive. I've been told it's not our respective postal services but the carriers in between that they contract with to move the goods. Remember you are way out there from a lot of the world and even planes take a bunch of time to get to and from Australia.