Summary
5 Sep 14 81 jackets pre ordered and paid for
8 Sep 14 Pakistan and India suffer widespread flooding each year during the monsoon season, which runs from June through September.
(
http://www.weather.com/news/news/pakistan-india-monsoon-rains-floods-landslides-20140907)
10 Sep 14 More than 700,000 villagers have been forced to flee their homes.
(
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29137789)
16 Sep 14 Health problems in the aftermath of the floods (The Guardian)
29 Sep 14 ETA of the Jacket is 2nd to 3rd week of October delivered to you.......at this stage
13 Oct 14 The cut out and embroidery was confirmed as completed last week on all garments
(NB. Jackets were supposed to have been completed and delivered by about now)
23 Oct 14 The devastating floods that went through the area (in Pakistan on 8 Sep) have delayed production
13 Nov 14 they are due into OZ any day now....
14 Nov 14 ... in the last stage of production ...go to quality control ...will be delivered very soon.
9 Dec 14 ... on our doorsteps before xmas ...
10 Jan 15 Jackets landed in Melbourne.
12 Jan 15 DELIVERY WILL BE WEDNESDAY 14/1
Based on the above timeline gleaned from our Forum and the web it would seem plausible that the "devastating" floods could have only delayed the start of jacket production. I've seen nothing on the web that indicates further flooding past 8 Sep.
The way I see it, the spin is that the devastating floods (in Mid-September) some how affected production 10 or more days after the "cut out and embroidery was confirmed as completed" the week before 13 Oct. How does that compute?
I'm not impugning the motives of people on this side of the Indian Ocean, some of whom have worked hard on our behalf to acquire our jackets. But the lawyer in me is starting to smell a large rat at work. I hope I'm wrong.
After all I have the most to lose as I ordered the largest jacket.