How long Does it take HP to ship custom notebooks?

Just posting my laptops journey for benefit of those wondering if their laptops will arrive early and to also find others who have ordered lately to find out if their laptops came early. I ordered on August 1st at around 5 P.M. estimated ship date is August 14th. Currently my order is still in the processing stage. I have hope it will possibly arrive early as the estimated ship date for the same specification system today has a ship date of August 14th too.

HP ENVY - 15t Laptop

• 1TB 5400 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive
• HP Laptop
• Backlit Keyboard
• Security Software Trial
• 8GB DDR3L - 1 DIMM
• HP ENVY - 15t Laptop
• Intel 802.11ac WLAN and Bluetooth(R) [1x1]
• Office Software Trial
• Windows 8.1 64
• 15.6-inch diagonal Full HD WLED-backlit Display (1920x1080)
• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Dual Digital Microphone, Fingerprint Reader
• 3-cell 55.5WHr Lithium-ion Battery
• SuperMulti DVD burner
• 5th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U Dual Core Processor + NVIDIA GeForce 940M 2GB Discrete Graphics

 

ugh. Waiting game!! My hp pavilion shipped the 18th and is in Narita Shi Japan now. Anyone know where it will go next? I thought it was on a plane straight to Memphis (found a FedEx flight on flight aware that I could have sworn went along with the shipping info starting in Shanghai). But in the middle of the flight it was ''in transit Narita Shi Japan"

 

HP 15t Touch Laptop : The waiting game
•8GB DDR3L - 1 DIMM
•1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
•SuperMulti DVD burner
•4-cell 41WHr Lithium-ion Battery
•Backlit Keyboard
•6th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U Dual CoreProcessor + Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
•Intel 802.11ac WLAN and Bluetooth(R) [1x1]
•Windows 10 Home 64
•Natural silver
•HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Dual Digital Microphone (natural silver) (for FHD)
•15.6-inch diagonal Full HD WLED-backlit IPS Display (1920x1080) Touchscreen


Its on its way :

10/20/2015 - Tuesday
1:35 pm In transit SENNAN-SHI JP
1:15 pm In transit SENNAN-SHI JP
8:03 am In transit SHENZHEN CN
7:18 am In transit SHENZHEN CN
5:00 am International shipment release - Import SHENZHEN CN

10/15/2015 - Thursday
9:00 pm International shipment release - Import CHONGQING CN
2:16 am Shipment information sent to FedEx
2:15 am Left FedEx origin facility CHONGQING CN
2:14 am Picked up CHONGQING CN
Package received after FedEx cutoff

My only problem is that the box just sat in Chongqing for like 5 days .

Expected delivery by 10/22 if there are no delays.

 

I am also following a laptop delivery, it sat in Shenzhen from Thursday Oct 15, until Tuesday Oct 20.

 

I guess our laptops are being shipped in the same container or pallet.
The question is why is FedEx stalling deliveries ?

 

FedEx describes the service as "International Economy Distribution" -- I'm guessing they are aggregating a large number of non-priority items until a plane is full.

 

Your guess is on point.

 

My Spectre 360 arrived early.

Ordered 10/13 with a listed ship date of 11/4.. Shipped from China on 10/22 and hit my door in Arkansas on 10/26.

 

Here Goes:

Ordered 2/22 (Saturday) with a ship date of 3/3 (Thursday) and estimated delivery date of 3/11 (Friday).
[Edit]: Today is 2/29. Throughout the entire day when I checked the order status, the HP website said it could not find my order. I assumed this was because it was about to ship, and my suspicions were confirmed a moment ago. Expected delivery is 3/4 (Friday) to Virginia, even with the dreaded "Package received after FedEx cutoff."


2/29/2016 - Monday
9:56 pm At FedEx origin facility SHANGHAI CN
9:52 pm Picked up SHANGHAI CN
Package received after FedEx cutoff
9:50 pm Left FedEx origin facility SHANGHAI CN
7:31 am Shipment information sent to FedEx


Also for those interested, HP Customer Service told me your order status won't change from "Processing" until the order has shipped, in which case it will change to shipped. I saw a few other places where people were worrying that their order status had not changed from "processing" to "building."

Here are the Specs:

• HP ENVY - 15t Touch Laptop

• Backlit Keyboard

• Security Software Trial

• 8GB DDR3L - 1 DIMM

• Intel 802.11ac WLAN and Bluetooth(R) [1x1]

• Microsoft(R) Office Home and Student 2016

• 15.6-inch diagonal HD WLED-backlit Display (1366x768) Touchscreen

• Windows 10 Home 64

• HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Dual Digital Microphone, Fingerprint Reader

• 3-cell 55.5WHr Lithium-ion Battery

• SuperMulti DVD burner

• 6th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U Processor Dual-Core + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 4GB Discrete Graphics

• 1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive

 

I joined this forum just to complain about how long it is taking to receive a Probook 450 G3. Customization was not exotic. Just an upgrade in processor and memory and removal of fingerprint reader. Ordered it May 30. Estimated shipping date was June 14 which didn't happen. I called them on June 16 to find out what was going on. Was told it's still in China and something to the effect that they'd expedite it. As of June 20 it's still being processed with the same ship date and supposed to arrive June 22 which I'm quite sure it will not.

Update: it did arrive today 6/22....damaged have to send it back. It came via UPS not Fed EX. When he handed me the torn box, my heart sank and when I opened and saw the torn plastic wrap and looked to see a dent.
I never got any tracking information link via email like I was told by cust. service. So I guess if you want it sent by fed ex you have to get something other than standard shipping and if you want tracking information you have to set up an account. Which I didn't want to do and get a bunch of spam from HP which is happening anyway. If only Dell had decent laptops with an optical drive I'd of ordered from them. I've never had problems in 3 shipments and I can understand their cust rep people.
update 7/6- Replacement laptop received in 2 weeks. 1 week earlier than the est. del date.
Set up an account. The tracking number was set up for FedEx (invalid number when I click it) but again delivered by UPS with no way to track or know when it was coming