I can understand that sentiment, and I'll try to improve communications from this end. What happens is, sometimes, rarely, a particular order requires a tube which needs adjustment, so it's back to the machine shop for repair. That can cause an out-of-queue phenomenon, whereby an order which, by all rights, should have shipped (according to its #), doesn't. Consequently, some later numbers get shipped before the earlier ones. We're trying to keep this to a minimum, but we can't always predict when it will happen.
That said, we're working on 1980 upwards right now, so the next shipment (after this Tuesday's) will be (approx.) 1980-2005. That's approximate since there are some earlier numbers which haven't gone out yet due to the above reasons. So by the beginning of the following week we should have most everything up to 2005 shipped, and possibly more. That's not a firm promise, but it's our goal. In any case, lots of people will be receiving Futuras. And nice ones too.