I once lived in Ankara, Turkey and had my family send me a cassette with the latest album of my favorite band from Gdańsk, Poland. Never got it and moved on (and moved out).

I got a message from my former neighbors 9 years after the tape was sent, informing me, it has arrived. (It was around early 2000s)

AliExpress has been really good with refunding late broken or missing things for me.

Lucky one, I'm still waiting for stuff...

The article is garbage

A few years back I got something from Etsy after like 4 months because it had to clear Russian customs. It was a handknit Doom monster plush.

And i thought shipping in spain was bad(i had to wait one and a half months for something)