When I ordered my last one in January it took less than 2 weeks to arrive. I wanted to order mine so that I got the hard plastic card and since it expires in January 2009, and that is when we'll be there, the expiration was OK for me. Normally you would want to crunch the numbers. (We used or will use our card for January 08, April/May 08, August 08, October 08, January 09) so we got our savings out of it.