Automatic?
This could merely be an automatic response to the 30-day limit drawing close, as most OLPC donors (who pay more for their laptop in order to give one to a needy child in another country) expected something of a delay. It appears delivery of the OLPCs is on its way this week, with the necessary WEEE Certification for the UK having been secured, so fingers crossed for all those children out there waiting to get computing.