Well you have the 1-2 days, and you have workflow notifications running?
I am not sure on what you can do about it, and that is a good point I may raise as better updates to orders to easily handle this.
It would be nice, rather then deleted right the way, these went into a form of log with options to turn them back into orders etc.
In BC you have Quote, Order and Invoice basically. I think a 4th option for things like this that would keep for a week etc may be handy.