My delivery date was 2nd to 8th October, but since I'd pre-ordered only 10mins after the pre-order page went live, I was a bit miffed.
Spoke to Apple - good news (at least for me). I had also ordered an extra USB to Lightning cable, this is due to ship in October, and hence the date for my whole order was October, but thankfully, the iPhone 5 will in fact arrive 21/9 as I'd hoped.
Yippee!
Not posting here to gloat (much), but thought other might be in a similar situation.
3 sleeps to go....
PS Imagine if that UPS plane (linked above) gets delayed how many upset US iPhone 5 customers there would be...