I am posting this for the benefit of anyone out there who thought (as I did) that it was now either impossible or else too late to get the geniune official Obama-Biden yard sign in advance of election day.
I ordered four yard signs at $8 each from the official Obama store on 10/16/08, and I got them via UPS today.
Now, here is the all-important trick to getting your Obama-Biden yard sign before election day that I want to pass along here, which I learned about by talking to a person at the Obama store:
You need to ask for UPS 2nd Day Air shipping, because then your order will receive priority processing within the Obama store and will go out the Obama store door within just a few days, and of course your order will then only have a 2-day UPS transit time. If you do not ask for the UPS 2nd Day Air shipping, your order may not even leave the Obama store door for 1-2 weeks.
It cost me $18.40 for UPS 2nd Day Air shipping for a box with 4 yard signs, but like I say, I then got my yard signs in a timely fashion, well before election day.
Please note that the Obama yard signs have never been just given out for free anywhere (which is most unusual for a well-funded political campaign); the local Obama campaign offices were also selling the yard signs, but here in CT they ran out of yard signs and have themselves been waiting for 2 weeks to get more.