Now, Fusion Garage tells us that JooJoo units are actually in Los Angeles, where they've just been released from a paperwork-related customs delay, and that the "absolute worst case" is that they'll arrive to customers via overnight shipping on April 2nd, although FG is hoping for the 1st.

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"Just two weeks before we launched the airline in March, we were advised by the French authorities that there would be a short delay of a couple of weeks before a customs and immigration port of entry was in place at Paris Pontoise, " he said.

BBC: Let-410 aircraft

U.S. Customs Service spokesman Jim Michie said the agency had no data on the delay times at various crossings.

CNN: Long delays reported at U.S.-Canada border

Those involved a customs post 200 kilometers inland manned by a very small team, designed to cause delay where France could not impose an outright ban on Sony.

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