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2016 Macbook Pro, Order/Shipping Thread
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I did request in store pickup. I do see that the status shows "Shipping to store" but with other products I have had shipped to an Apple Store I have been able to track it with my phone number as reference since for store pickups we are not given an actual UPS/FedEx tracking number. If our MBPs are truly en route, then either my past ups.com experience doesn't hold or they are on a FedEx flight, which I hadn't though of until now... Still, I'm not holding my breath. Apple will send out a pickup read email when it is ready.
It is quite easy to play the "protectionism" or "favoritism" card, but it's all unsubstantiated speculation and frankly has *NO* bearing in reason until evidence is presented.
More reasonably and rationally (and substantiated by logistical considerations) I would suggest the timings have more to do with customs clearance processes and the like.
So, first, it is easier to clear things in bulk. By the TEU (or in air cargo by the container), but better yet, by the entire damn aircraft. So what they likely did was take a given tranche of orders and divvied them up into buckets across points of delivery and packed them all together to clear customs in bulk and shipped off the largest bucket first (e.g. if their first batch of machines was 10,000 machines for example, and 75%/7500 of these were US shipments [e.g. one shot customs clearance per freighter flight] and only 25% were non-US and distributed across, say, 20-25 countries [many, many more customs clearance processes for less units/revenue], isn't it self-evident why a for-profit company would prioritize as such?).
I don't think this is a "we like the US more" or "we are a US company", I think it's about going after the largest number of fulfillments and logistical optimization.
I am willing to bet if you saw EU countries put down more orders it'd be the other way around!
More reasonably and rationally (and substantiated by logistical considerations) I would suggest the timings have more to do with customs clearance processes and the like.
So, first, it is easier to clear things in bulk. By the TEU (or in air cargo by the container), but better yet, by the entire damn aircraft. So what they likely did was take a given tranche of orders and divvied them up into buckets across points of delivery and packed them all together to clear customs in bulk and shipped off the largest bucket first (e.g. if their first batch of machines was 10,000 machines for example, and 75%/7500 of these were US shipments [e.g. one shot customs clearance per freighter flight] and only 25% were non-US and distributed across, say, 20-25 countries [many, many more customs clearance processes for less units/revenue], isn't it self-evident why a for-profit company would prioritize as such?).
I don't think this is a "we like the US more" or "we are a US company", I think it's about going after the largest number of fulfillments and logistical optimization.
I am willing to bet if you saw EU countries put down more orders it'd be the other way around!
Well this restore from time machine back up is taking forever... I just wanna play with my baby
When I did a time capsule transfer to my rMBP 2012 it took 48 hours via wifi :-(. Now I know a little more, have got the dongles ready for migrating directly from the MB my new MBP
Ordered a 13" space gray Touh bar MacBook Pro 512 GB with 8 GB of RAM about 5 hours after the event. I am in the 3-4 week delivery window with an ETA of Nov 25-Dec 2nd. Still no charge so far. Any 3-4 weekers get charged yet?
The wait is killing me. Especially since a bunch of other people are getting theirs.
The wait is killing me. Especially since a bunch of other people are getting theirs.
Imagine being one with a delivery date earlier than most and still not getting it...
Stock 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Touch ID. Ordered 30 minutes after keynote.
I just tried tracking a FedEx shipment by reference number using my phone number and the zip code of the Apple Store for ship dates 11/12, 11/13 and 11/14 and got nothing. I'm not getting anything from ups.com track by reference either. Try tracking by reference on either site with your phone number.
I'm in the 4-5 weeks (7th December - 15th December) because I canceled my order to get the $200 student discount. Mine says processing.
Anyone with the same delivery range move to preparing for shipment?
Anyone with the same delivery range move to preparing for shipment?
I'm sorry, but the 'buy more computers' argument doesn't hold. Even if the total number of computers coming into Australia equalled only one US state, it is still, as you yourself stated, easier to ship them in larger lots. This would mean that it is easier, cheaper, quicker, to ship all the Australian (or EU) orders at the same time. Since they all go through a single port of call anyway, any discrepancies could be accounted for by local transport. But, this is not the case. There are people in the US who had ship dates in December who are receiving their orders today or tomorrow. It is absolutely favourtism.
I haven't seen any FedEx people reporting departure scans, IIRC, including those whose ETA is 11/15 or 16 (mine is 17). So hopefully "in transit" is the FedEx version of UPS's departure scan. I think it's a good sign that they cleared customs right before. Hopefully we don't have to wait till it lands tomorrow AM to find out!
Yeah I don't think we'll be able to track it by phone number any time before they alert us. Like you said it could be shipping by FedEx or any other shipping method (what I thought when the phone method others told me about didn't work). That's why I'm asking what the rest of the 13 in people are seeing when tracking their package. Especially if it's in NYC. Have you been charged yet?
To bring it up to eye level when I am using it at my desk, and to get it up off of my desk. The great thing about the 15" model and it's performance is that it will work both as an ultraportable laptop; and as a powerful "bridge" desktop, because it has the power to drive a pair of 4k displays and run heavier software but is still portable enough to pick up and keep working.
Also ordered October 31st. No charge/authorization yet. Don't know when the US Thanksgiving is, but if it's in the last week of November, I agree that's a good target date for us to see any action. My (arbitrary) target date is November 28th, exactly 4 weeks from date of order. 'Course I'd be thrilled if something happened sooner!
ETA: Am also keeping an eye on these two threads - just to share the pain, misery... and hope:
Nov 25, 2016 - Dec 2, 2016 Deliveries Thread
Dec 6 - Dec 12 MBP Deliveries
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Hmm I haven't. Well I was, but they took too long and so the charge disappeared. This has really been a mess
Store pickup is so weird, mine went down to 21 instead of 25, but my mac left california for canada yesterday, there is no way it's gonna take a week ! i'm fairly certain my mac will be available at the store tomorrow, but still, I find it weird that the date updated from 25 to 21 and not 16 or 15