Review by potato9369 about YANWEN international express package LP0***********78

Order was despatched December 17th, arrived in USA Dec 23, but then took until Jan 6 to get from New Jersey to me in WV. A total of 20 days for AliExpress is acceptable, but the more premium of small package shipping like e-packet and AliExpress Standard Shipping (as this was, I don't know why these are marked "Yanwen", which are usually free and take 25-50 days, and my actual Yanwen orders are marked "AliExpress Standard") used to take just 9-14 days total to reach me in WV. The change occurred around September 2019 & the delay is almost always once it arrives stateside, with the exception of e-packet which now sits at a waypoint (accepted by airline) for 14-21 days before suddenly moving again, hitting the US and getting delivered in just an additional 2-3 days. AliExpress Standard Shipping, what this site is calling "Yanwen", is my current favorite shipping for my AliExpress orders. Because I order beads, I place hundreds of <$10 orders and have a ton of experience with Chinese shipping and can, at least, say out of 300 orders, I've only never received 2. That's pretty good.

— Jan 12, 2020, posted by _susieb_

Dispatched Dec 12th, on December 16 it was in "Dongguan", no further movement til January 11 when it showed up in New York, USA and then took 10 days to get from NY to WV. At 42 days, this is close to the longest something has ever taken to ship to me from China. Any order that went longer than 45 days just didn't show up at all, but of >400 orders, that's only happened 3 times. Lately all shipping takes approx 2x as long as before 9/19. I did receive yesterday a Yanwen order that only took 12 days, but that's the exception these days.

— Jan 25, 2020, posted by _susieb_

Small package of beads ordered Dec 28, dispatched Dec 30, received in mailbox in WV, USA on Jan 21. This same day I received 6 other small packages, all separate orders from AliExpress, most sent china post small packet plus, some Cainiao (flyt) and a couple Yanwen. This time last year I would only choose Yanwen as a last resort, but now it's often faster than china post (which used to take 12-20 days & now takes as long as 40 days).

— Jan 29, 2020, posted by _susieb_