Christmas ordering on Amazon.

I was wondering why I hadn't received an order from Amazon that I'd placed on December 7th. How long can it take? I checked my account and saw that the predicted delivery date was in 2005. In my many years of Amazon shopping, I've never seen this kind of problem getting Christmas orders out before. I had to cancel the order, of course, but not before printing out the page to make a shopping list to take to my local stores.