If you are hoping to receive your Kindle before December 24th then you better order today. In the last 24 hours shipment dates have moved from December 5 to December 17.

From an Amazon email reply when asked if an order could be processed next day rather than 2 day shipment:

"any changes made to your order will result in the order being reprocessed by our systems, which would cause your order to be moved to the end of the line, resulting in a December 18th delivery date."

This is very good news for Amazon. I look forward to Amazon releasing the actual number of units shipped.