good for me, bad for my budget

I got two separate shipping notifications from Amazon Japan last night (one for one(!) item, one for three items--both, btw, coming from the same facility in Chiba) from an order that I wasn't expecting to ship until April. Have they changed their "group items in as few shipments as possible" policy or something?



Is there any point in trying to understand Amazon's policies?

PS

In case anyone might be interested, I have a couple auctions going at help_japan (here, here, and here), which I mostly mention because the Tohru Pinky is going for SO CHEAP OMG BID ON HERRRRR. I am sort of surprised at how the bidding has gone so far, but whatevs, I'm going to have tons of fun putting together the Michigan Box.


I am totally not telling you guys what I'm bidding on because I WANTS IT