I made a deal from Hong Kong to Hawaii and suface mail took a month and few days.
My experience may differ from other countries:
If Insured, Sender needs to contact his/her courier and fill out paper work. Process takes about 3 weeks to receive any answer from courier.
Not insured, hmmmm Out of luck buddy! :-(
I always try to have my parcels sent with a Delivery Confirmation Receipt. That way we can both track the parcel in the event it does get lost.
Made a deal with you and it took about 3 weeks surface mail ;-)
Good Luck Chriss! I hope everything works out.
Darren