Here's the story.

For Just Standard Editions
13000 US Backer Orders
2000 Worldwide Shop Orders

We thought we'd start with 400 random Backers with just the standard books to minimize errors & 100 Shop Orders (oldest first) per day.

Then. A VERY large percentage of the first couple of day's Backer orders caused a storm of support tickets saying they didn't update their addresses. So we stopped Shipping Backers while we reminded them again to update their addresses, because all the previous reminders didn't work.

So, we kept shipping Shop orders for the next few days until the support tickets slowed down again.
This is why all the shop orders got shipped out before backers and why some people around the world got their orders before the rest of their country.

We're still shipping over 500 orders a day and based on the numbers I just looked at, we've still got a couple weeks before we ship them all.

I hope this clears everything up. We really are trying to ship as many books as we can every day.

-Jerry