Originally Posted by drewguy

They'll wait. Practice seems to be that if you qualify for a higher status than your current they will send a kit within a few weeks, up to some cutoff point around November, at which point they wait to see what happens by the end of the year and then send it out in the big batch in early January.

(the year I hit 1K made for a nice double kit - one when I hit plat in Sept. and another in the new year after hitting 1K in Dec. - extra drink coupons!)