18 working days is still well within their current estimated lead times. If you email them, they will openly admit to you that their current lead times are 3-4 weeks, possibly longer. Keep in mind that we are in the middle of the biggest pandemic of this century and there are currently lockdown...
After the announcement of what is essentially a lockdown by Boris Johnson, will those of us expecting new PC's actually get them? I feel his announcement that all "electronics" stores should close was too vague to ascertain an answer to this, or maybe I'm just in denial that I won't get a pc...