From Jamey Stegmaier's post on BGG Forum on 10/16:
"My freight shipping company called me today to say that the containers will be offloaded into our warehouse on Tuesday/Wednesday this week. So it's feasible that some of those same games will ship out to distributors on Thursday Friday, meaning retailers in the US will get them the week of October 24. "
So, I'll wait until next week to see if we get shipping notices. If not I'm cancelling.