**UPDATE:  Fed Ex shows  that it picked up my XPS computer on the 7th (today) & that it is delayed in Fort Worth--not sure why it is delayed.  This at least establishes that the computer has been built and that Fed Ex has it.  Projection now is that it is expected in Houston about the 12th.  Given that Fed Ex says they have the computer, I can live with that.
  What a difference a year (2021) does not make (2022). I am in the same boat in December 2022. I placed an order with Dell for an XPS computer November 20, 2022.  Production start November 22/ Est ship date December 2/ Est delivery December 8.   Now, December 4, 2 days after it was supposed to have shipped, I received a Dell email revising the estimated ship date to December 19 and the estimated delivery date to December 23. Almost 2 weeks later than the original estimates. No stated reason, just that it is delayed. Given that the 23rd is 2 days before Christmas I am doubtful that it will even be delivered then. I am sitting on a monitor in a unopened box delivered November 25. Fortunately the computer system is not a Christmas present.  Over the years I have had good service from Dell and as far as I recall this is the first delayed product. It seems the options are either to cancel, wait or see what others has and can deliver.  In contrast the Chinese built a 57 story office building in 19 days, Tesla builds an entire car in about 40 seconds and after 35 or so years building computers, it takes Dell more than a month to make and deliver a computer?
Order delay for XPS