My Australian experience so far is that I ordered my Pixel XL from Google on 18th October. [EDIT: Oops, was so angry I posted this in the wrong Pixel thread. Never mind]  
El Goog did their bit and despatched it to me - presumably from the Singapore warehouse - on 20th October.  Yay!  Sent on the release date. 
 
Then I saw the courier.  Toll Group.  My heart sank...
My Pixel XL duly arrived in Sydney, Australia on Monday 24th, after a 7 hour flight that somehow took 3 days.
Here we are Friday night, 28th October, and I'm still waiting to get it.  
Just got off the phone to Toll Group after a 40 minute queue; they tried to deliver it yesterday to my home address.  I'm fairly sure I was home at the time they said they attempted delivery but oh well, benefit of the doubt and all that.  It was carded in my letterbox so when I got home again I redirected the parcel yesterday afternoon via their website to my work address.  Never came today.  Toll Group say I should get it Monday 31st October.
But who knows.  Would've been fun playing with it over the weekend.  I thought I was doing the right thing ordering through the Google Store rather than going to a local retailer.  Toll Group let me and Google down 
 
Note to
 El Goog - you might want to take a look at the couriers you contract.