HOLIDAY NOTICE
Our office and factory closed from 30 April to 2 May 2022 for Labour Day. Production and shipping stopped for three days; quotations and drawings did not.
The three days
Labour Day in China falls on 1 May, and the statutory arrangement in 2022 gave three days off from 30 April to 2 May, with work resuming on 3 May. For a factory that is short enough that no order changes month, but long enough that a shipment booked for the first days of May slips into the second week.
What stopped and what did not
| Activity |
During the break |
| SMT and assembly |
Stopped |
| Final test and ageing |
Stopped |
| Packing and forwarder handover |
Stopped |
| Email, quotations, drawings |
Continued |
| Customs paperwork prepared in advance |
Continued |
Why the paperwork matters more than the pause
Short breaks rarely cause delay by themselves. They cause delay when the export paperwork was going to be prepared on the first working day and the forwarder has already closed its cut-off. Preparing the documents before the break is what keeps a three-day pause from becoming a nine-day one.
Ordering around May
◆ Place the order at least two weeks before the break if the ship date is in early May.
◆ Ask for the forwarder cut-off, not just the factory ship date.
◆ For a self checkout kiosk rollout, book installation after the second week of May rather than the first.
Check the range
The models discussed here are listed in our collections, from industrial panel PCs and kiosk hardware to retail pos hardware, with port maps and panel sizes on each product page.
◆ industrial panel PCs
◆ self-service kiosks
◆ POS terminals
If you need a drawing or a port list for a specific model, send the requirement and we will reply with the document rather than a brochure.
