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It's certainly not unheard of Neil, but it might be best to start looking into it. I have never lived in that part of China, but where I am there are often very long delays in the delivery of mail from abroad.
The address has to be exactly right, and preferably written in Chinese as well as English. There was one time I waited 3 months for delivery of an item before I finally tracked it down. It took many, many phone calls and trips to the sorting office, constantly being told they had never received it, before it was finally "found". One line of the address had been written wrongly, and hence the "postal service" simply didn't trouble to sort out the problem.
You have to bear in mind that many (if not most) parts of China still have the mindset (and infrastructure) of a third world country, regardless of how the Chinese government tries to present China in the world media now, (Olympic games etc.)
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