If you ship a package with DHL or UPS from the USA on Friday it's guaranteed to arrive on Monday in Brussels. France should not be any different. That is 4 days max (Friday evening pickup, Monday noon delivery)
The closer it gets to Christmas the more you can throw any express delivery dates out the window unfortunately.
Sadly true but after Christmas is a different story and that still gives them a couple days. None of this excuses HashFast blatant lying on shipping timelines. I am now convinced they knew from day 1 they had no chance of shipping before late late late December and simply lied to secure sales at a higher price point. Hashfast would still have gotten sales but not at >$10 per GH/s if they were honest and gave a realistic shipping timeframe of mid to late Dec for Batch 1. They lied in order to profit from their