It's better to receive a working and fully tested machine on 15 of July than receive a new not fully tested machine on 15 of July.
The question is not if it's better to have a new not fully tested machine on 5 of July versus having a fully tested machine on 15 of July.
The date of shipping doesn't matter in the context of the conversation, and the reason for the shipping date has already been attributed to BITMAIN not having production PCBs in house until tonight. Further, what exactly constitutes "working and fully tested"? Your proposition is that BITMAIN should hold your unit for 10 days to burn in test because then you're likely to receive a good working unit. My argument is that burning in for 10 days vs 1 day does not greatly decrease the probability that you receive bum HW. Wasting 9 days burning in the machine costs you, the end-user, hugely. If you don't agree then how about BITMAIN sends me your barely tested HW and I'll burn-test it for 10 days before sending it off to you.
yeah, HW can fail on 1st day, 1st month, 5th month... or never... who knows when its going to fail