Sure seems that way.Haha! It's like they don't want us to get our phones... or something!
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7+ Jet Black (128/256) Date Change Thread
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Man, this experience has been an ordeal and a half. To think I could have had any other colour on launch day. But no, I had to have Jet Black. I'm sure this will all be forgotten once it arrives.
Ugh. It's Murphy's law: extreme edition.
I have two jet black pluses that are sitting with you. I called UPS a few times today and got two different people that guaranteed me that they would be here tomorrow. The specialist I spoke to not more than an hour ago assured me that the phones have cleared customs and should see some activity within the coming hours.
I will be genuinely impressed if UPS pulls this off and I can pick up my phone tomorrow. It has to go from China -> Korea -> Anchorage, AK -> Louisville, KY -> My local airport -> Their local hub -> My customer center. I just don't see how that's possible from a logistical perspective in less than 24 hours.
Unless maybe their systems aren't updating or an entire pallet's worth of iPhones skipped a scan? This will be interesting to say the least.
Some of us are watching the planes themselves rather than ups's crappy tracking system.
But there's no way to know what plane a phone will be on without the matching scan times from UPS. It would be speculation as to whether or not our phones are on what plane because there'd be no departure time from UPS to verify.
So you've had activity then past the 11:30 PM arrival scan to ZhengZhou?
I don't have one any more because I requested my phones be held at the customer center. They're no longer providing me estimated dates of delivery. Apple gives a date of 9/23, up one day from 9/22, but UPS insists that I will have them tomorrow, 9/21.
Ups just emailed me back from a previous message saying my package is still set for pick up tomorrow pending customs clearance . I'll believe it when I see it lol
Sounds like BS to me. 'Pending customs clearance' is just the same limbo as most of us have been experiencing.
That's what I'm saying. I just don't see how they think it's possible for me to pick up my phones tomorrow when they're still sat in China. Either they're flying them out on supersonic Blackbirds, they've missed scans/their tracking system is overwhelmed or not working, or I'm not getting my phones tomorrow. And I think it's the latter
Definitely wont be coming tomorrow for those stuck in China (Im stuck there too ). From all the posts Ive seen in this thread, almost everyone who has received their phone has had a departure update from China, KR, Alaska, etc.... The people who were supposed to get it today will most likely get it tomm, the people who were getting it tomm will most likely get it Thurs. It seems everything is backed up by one or two days.
). From all the posts Ive seen in this thread, almost everyone who has received their phone has had a departure update from China, KR, Alaska, etc.... The people who were supposed to get it today will most likely get it tomm, the people who were getting it tomm will most likely get it Thurs. It seems everything is backed up by one or two days.
Google shows UPS flight 99 left at 4:17 local time, it's been in the air for about 15 minutes now with an estimated landing time of 2:10 AM local time.
Have we gotten any customs scans or import scans yet? That would indicate their movement into the US here soon
Just search Google for "UPS flight 99" and it will show a widget of all of the relevant flight information.
From what the "specialist" at UPS told me, she said we would not see customs clearance on tracking. So who knows.
