I've also had a few hardware only orders from China come through for me with no problems. One of them took only 8 days and sat in Customs for just 5 hours. I was impressed at the description of goods that the company used on the package--they didn't lie about the contents at all, but it wasn't obvious what was inside either. I have a juice order from China sitting in in Customs right now (Ry4)--fingers crossed.