8 wks for test to hit FTDNA, how long for results?

[Dixieau]

I but the bullet on 29 Oct 2012 and ordered a test kit for my Uncle, it's taken almost 8 weeks to get test out to Australia, do test and return. Just received notification that its been received. In your opinions, (allowing for Christmas) when do you think I should see some results?

[nathanm]

Your Genetic Genealogist has an informative blog post about possible problems with mailing kits back to FTDNA. The postage rates increased recently, which resulted in several kits being delayed at the post office. So if you returned a kit in the past month or so, and its receipt wasn't acknowledged...

Any chance of getting Y markers from a stamp licked 60 years ago?

The male line I am researching, "daughtered out"; there is no living male descendant. However, I have a letter with a stamped envelope that my maternal gr-grandfather wrote, just before he died in 1946. It...