>Right now, shipping is being held up while I find suitable packaging
>to protect the units as they sail through the postal system and onto the floor.

Okay, I've got shipping containers: 100 thick cardboard boxes (kinda like the ones I used to buy punch cards in), a large roll of bubble wrap, the weekend newspaper, and a few rolls of packing tape and a gun (not the USA-ian variety, though..).

Just add some glue and solder, and more of these might actually ship soon!