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I ordered some tires and a set of fenders (for an upcoming September tour) from Germany on July 6. Typically I get shipments from them in about 2 weeks, or less. This time the shipment made it to Frankfurt by July 8...and stopped dead. No tracking updates/progress since then. I contacted the vendor a couple weeks ago and they said if there wasn't any progress in week to let them know. No progress..contacted the vendor again and they put a trace on the shipment...the trace takes 4-6 weeks to get a response. Soo..re-buying what I need for the tour more local (online as LBS have nothing that I want), at higher prices. So much for trying to save a couple bucks on July 6.
The article above said the supply chains are "tangled"..good description. Going to be a (long) while before things start to get back in synch.