I received my Farnell Electronics (http://www.farnell.com) order in three whole days.

Sounds rather unimpressive until you consider the fact that it was shipped from the U.K.

Farnell has a lot of stuff that the big U.S.-based distributors don't.

If it's a Euro-centric (Siemens, Phillips, Plessey, etc) part which I'm after they'll likely be getting my business from now on.