My experience is that the macbook pros travel from Shanghai to Anchorage, then to Indiana (customs I think, though that seems weird), and then to the final destination.
If its 2-3 day shipping option, then Fed-Ex seems to keep the package moving 24hours/day. In my case (twice actually, both 2-3 day shipping), my package went from Anchorage to Indiana and arrived in Seattle within 24 hours. Pretty amazing.
MBP 2.0GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)