Thanks for your encouragement Rick! My knife arrived today and it's absolute perfection. The side benefit to having to return it to GEC is that I got the thrill of opening the package a second time. Now if I can just avoid a serious puncture wound...
Hang in there, Bill. I only got the notification that mine shipped because I have a USPS Dashboard account. It automatically notifies me when a package ships to my address. Even if I don't know about it in advance.
GEC did not notify me that my knife shipped. USPS notified me of a package from Titusville and nobody in my household bought anything from there so it has to be my knife.
That doesn't necessarily mean yours shipped too of course, but at least we know they are working on the returned knives.