I looked back on a few posts, because I had believed time and again it was stated that units aren’t built until someone responds to the “Shipping” e-mail. This of course sounds absurd to most everyone. Especially when there are that many waiting for delivery. I can see this approach used later on, after they get through the pre-orders, and are partway through the post orders. They certainly don’t want to produce more than they need. They need spare parts on hand, and possibly a few whole unit swaps from production as spares and testing.
I can’t imagine the line getting held up for even 5-10 minutes if there was a pause in e-mails.
In the process of doing some research, I came across this little Gem. If you think you have been waiting a long time for your Glowforge, this may be why, We have been conditioned on delays for a long, long time.
I’m sure the product we will receive is quite a lot different from the one we thought we would get in Q1 2016. In many, many ways I’m sure we are all pretty happy we didn’t get what would have been produced Q1. Even with the delays and time to get stuff right, one of the biggest items, camera alignment, is by reports, not where I thought it would be, certainly by now.