Originally Posted by
adambrau
So the flight gets in at 7pm tonight, then the bag has to clear customs, then delivered to UA who then gives it to whoever they subcontract delivery to (Not exactly the A team) and then they deliver it to your home. I guess mine will be delivered around 3am tonight, fortunately live in a doorman building.
You'll need to be lucky. Everything will depend on whether your 7pm-arriving bag reaches the delivery distribution point by about 9:30pm, since the drivers do not pick up after that and the entire delayed baggage facility closes at 10:00pm and everyone goes home. If your bag doesn't get there in time, it won't be sorted or picked up for delivery by a driver until 7 or 8 am and probably not leave the airport before 9am. Such are the vicissitudes of delayed baggage at LHR since they instituted closing the service at 10pm each night.

I hope you are lucky.