I'm in NoCal, and I also get mine in the latter half of the month. I've been sub'ed since January, and have never received a delivery confirmation number. As for the products....I think the quality is getting better, but I'm not particularly jazzed about receiving their proprietary brands of makeup...especially since the gloss was made in China last time around. I'm usually a little wary of food and beauty/skincare related products that are manufactured there, I don't think the controls are tight enough. The brushes in the earlier bags were kind of in the same boat....I didn't know what the bristles were made of...and that made me a bit wary....