My 12" went from Taiwan to EDC which I believe is in Luxembourg, then on to MDC in London the next day, I got it the day after.
The courier dumped in on the reception desk like it was a box full of 'something he didn't care about breaking'.
Call Apple, they were very helpful, even called the courier company for me (they are not so helpful now that I want the copy of iDVD that failed to ship with my SD equipped mac).