I've heard bad things about the Chicago hub.That Chicago hub is the worst place to have a package sent to on the planet. Luckily yours is just passing through and maybe it won't be too bad. They get paid whether they work or not. And you guessed it, most of the time they don't feel like it.
This is some sort of anomaly - shipping from the UK to Aus with Royal Mail normally takes a week or so and is direct to Sydney. So far it's been 9 days from England and is now in America. Who knows where/when it will turn up.
I've never had a package from the UK routed through the USA before and it makes no sense.
I emailed Stealth vape and asked them to send me a new one directly. We'll see how they respond. They are a really good business - well known for their CS