I've had 12 miners stuck in China UPS for past week as well, after a number of emails to and fro between myself and UPS and myself and Bitmain .. the latest response from Bitmain is:
Thanks for your consultation!
Chinese customs is very strict with Antminers these days. We are preparing the new documents they required recently. We will do our best to make the packages be released as soon as we can. Sorry again for this situation.
Please let us know if you have additional questions or concerns.
looks like a whole shipment from last batch release has been held up.
That's unfortunate, I had some issues with my package and UPS but it still arrived within the window of shipping dates for the batch. I got mine in the last few days of the August 28th - Sept 11th batch, is yours still within the shipping date range of the batch?
No this batch that is on hold was from the earlier batch which should have been here by end of august ... I have had machines delivered without an issue from the august 28th -sept 11th batch as well.... Apparently the issue is with China as they have restrictions on exporting of certain items and if paperwork is not 100% then they can apparently hold the shipment ... the proper pisstake in all this is that I have already paid the customs duty to UPS for this shipment as they pre-bill you prior to it even reaching the UK so that they don't have any "hold-ups" at this end.