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Originally Posted by worth
Why it took 4 months, I have no idea. Sailing from Halifax to Iceland is only a week or two. So it must have got lost somewhere.
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Just from sending things overseas, I see this misconception all the time. You are assuming that once the package reaches the ship they start the engines and get underway.
In reality they wait until they have a shipload before setting sail. So that might be waiting until a shipping container is full to take that container to the dock; and waiting until the ship is full of containers before heading out. Or they could be taking the ship elsewhere to load or unload cargo. It is quite possible that ship went to the UK or even mainland Europe before heading north to Iceland.
I will agree that 4 months is way too long; but 1 week is also way to short of a time frame to expect something to arrive by ship.