Some people have been asking... It took four weekends to sort out parts, bag and pack, assemble and otherwise get the sabers ready for packing. Way more time than I thought it would/should have taken (partially because of the amount of hand trimming, cleaning and thread chasing I had to do to each one). I have all the sabers ready to go and about 1/3 of them boxed now. As far as shipping, I am going to wait until after the new year to ship. I have seen a lot of TCSS packages go missing, get damaged, etc and USPS is not easy to deal with for claims. I haze ZERO extra sabers so if one gets lost or damaged, there are no replacements which mean some people won't be getting sabers. As a side note, every year, I spend time with family in another state for the holidays, so no packages will ship in the last two weeks anyways. Rather than rush and have loss/damage issues, I am going to wait until after the new year. This is why you have not received shipping notices. I will start getting notices out in the first week of January and start shipping then. Thanks.