I order from them all the time and every order took 12 days or less. Not bad at all.
Not unless they could get it here in less than a week, for less than $3. The $26.99 came from California, free shipping, and got here in 5 business days. Life's too short for the kind of waiting FT offers. I order stuff sometimes from a place in hong kong, but it's like 3 wks, not 5+. I've seen some stories of fast shipping from FT, but they're by far the exception, mostly I see horror stories of just order and forget about it, it'll be like xmas when it gets here... whenever it gets here.
Andria