No problem here in UK. I placed an order at 7.30pm last night. The delivery guy was hammering on the door at 8.30 this morning. I do appreciate the UK is geographically and logistically very much smaller than the USA.

Fascinating video from which I learned a great deal. Highly recommended.

I agree with f8lee regarding the EPSON FF-680. I have one and find it a worthwhile investment. A ditionally it will scan printed documents and convert them into PDF format. Searchable, if required. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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No problems here in the U.K. Occasionally we get same day service.

Get the latest iPad Pro 2020 12.9”. With the Retina display you will be astonished at the clarity of your photos. Add an Apple Pencil and you will find that editing in Lr and PS Is very precise. The USB C is much less of a pain than the other connectors. I have hooked up a 4Tb drive just for the hell of it but it is an indication of its versatility. Then there are approximately 2 million apps to use for a multitude of tasks. Every day I am astonished with what I can accomplish. Be a leader not a follower.

I bought the FF 680 W in April in order to use some lockdown time productively by scanning the multitude off photos taken over many years. I have shared many with family members together with details relating to people and places, as far as I can remember them. I have catalogued a large number of B&W photos taken by my father with his folding Kodak during the 1930s, 40s and 50s many of which are of me and my sister during our formative years. The FF 680W has proved to be invaluable in getting the photos into my computer rapidly and reliably enabling me to concentrate on the important aspects of the photos rather than tedious manual scanning. I highly recommend this piece of equipment. The only downside is the cost here in the U.K. it is about £500 ($633) which means I need to scan over 5000 photos to break even with a commercial service.
In addition it can be used for document scanning for archive purposes and with OCR enable the editing and layout of documents to be made.
If you can afford one than buy one you won’t regret it.

I remember my trip to Washington with happy and moving memories. In the Korean War memorial, top photo, one statue is different from the rest. It is of an unarmed soldier - the Medic, a Quaker.
We were told at the Tomb of the Unknown in the Arlington National Cemetery that there will never be an unknown US service person ever again. The reason - all personnel have a DNA sample taken and safely stored so identification can be made accurately.
We were given this information by our excellent and knowledgeable tour guide. Perhaps a member of UHH can verify?

I have thousands of B&W photographs many inherited from my parents and taken in the 1930s and the immediate post 2nd WW period. Plus huge number of colour photos taken from from the 1960s. Having made a estimate of the time and effort required to sort, digitise, catalogue and process in Lightroom I decided to buy an Epson FF-680W scanner. This will digitise batches of about 40 to 50 photos at the rate of one a second (300 dpi) or slightly slower at 600 and 1200 dpi. It will also scan, digitise and OCR documents and save them in a variety of formats including Word and as searchable PDFS.
I highly recommend it but it is pricey.

Here in the U.K. I receive, each Saturday morning, my print copy of Amateur Photographer. It was first published in 1884 and still going strong. I suggest UHers Google the title and see what you are missing.

A friend of ours ‘Leeds birder’ has an excellent introduction to the art and science of Photoscoping. It has full details of technique and equipment needed together with many of his photos taken here in the UK and Africa. We highly recommend it.
www.photoscoping.org

I have one and I love it. Very versatile, made by an engineer in the U.K. not in Asia

We live in Yorkshire and never was a truer phrase spoken.

Last I heared it was shredded cabbage with mayo.

MS Word can be used to open a PDF. The document may then be edited in Word and subsequently saved as a PDF.