If any of you are doing holiday shopping via Amazon, I suggest you start yesterday. I wanted to start early because of everything in the news about shortages, and I'm already too late.
The whole reason I buy anything at Amazon on the holidays it to ship stuff to family using the gift wrap feature so I don't have to have it come here first where I wrap it, then spend another $50 to send it to CA.
I ordered some stuff for my grand niece and sister last week. What was even available (half was out of stock) already showed that Prime shipping was a week out. Now I'm tracking everything that has shown as "shipped" and EVERY package is late. Now three of them are showing that they haven't shipped, after showing that they did ship. At this point I have no idea when the stuff will show up, or if it was even in stock to begin with. Let alone if it will show up, because several items showed they were being shipped via some weird ass third party shipper called AMAUS, which can't even be tracked.
This might be regional, as I have a few things from Amazon coming to me, and while shipping slower than usual, it's all via Amazon or UPS and tracking shows normal progress.
Anyway, sounds like holiday shipping might be a mess this year.