I’m afraid we’re not offering any such evidence or guidance.
I can confirm that this is incorrect. Receiving your product has no impact on your forum status.
Absolutely, literally thousands - parts delays, sick days on the assembly line, and more. And furthermore, we reserve the right to reorder deliveries as we see fit. For example, if we should discover that the temperature of delivery trucks in some region was causing damage in transit, we might pause delivery to that region. (This is a fictional example, as we’ve already run environmental tests that meet UPS and FedEx delivery guidelines).
More broadly, I would say: if you are not satisfied with the current schedule, which only indicates “on or before” delivery dates, you should request a refund.
The statement we’ve made about order date is that it’s how we determine shipping date all other things being equal - it is, and remains, the tiebreaker among orders in a similar category.