I had ordered my UHR double eagle on the first day it was available on the mint's web site and finally received it on Friday, March 6.

Of course! I rushed it overnight to NGC to beat the March 9 deadline. Just saw the post from David Fischer that he had ordered on the second day and received his coin almost 10 days before I got mine. I did go through a similar experience of getting 'delayed' e-mails from the mint and had nearly lost hope of being able to obtain the 'early release' designation. To think that could have happened simply due to the mint not honoring the order in which orders for the coin were placed. Add that to U.S. mint's lousy service. How do they decide whose coins to ship out next?