When people were imported into the new system, everyone was put in express shipping. Express shipping wasn't available prior to February, so everyone has been moved back to where they should have been. No ones shipping was downgraded.
That's REALLY important, if true, and I hope/assume it is.
Josh - please, please keep posting this kind of factual stuff, rather than nipping at the heels of your tormentors.
You all know this, right?... "Never wrestle a pig in a mudhole. You both get dirty, and the pig enjoys it."
My corollary is "From the outside, it always looks like two pigs are wrestling."