Yes pick it up at your local ups store. Call them and ask where it being sent and also if you can meet the driver they let you do this somtimes
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Yes pick it up at your local ups store. Call them and ask where it being sent and also if you can meet the driver they let you do this somtimes
My Cousin who works at the Miami Destination Sort Facility told me a bloddy chaos over there. Multiple Same Adress packages going on different trucks. They actually rented some trucks to deliver because there so many i think he said there was 8,000 iPhone's
Twas the night before iPhone
and all through the house
not a peripheral was stirring
not even a Mighty Mouse
Tracking data was displayed
on four devices with care
with hopes that Big Brown
soon would be there.
Then, out in the street
there arose such a clatter
I jumped from my chair
to see what was the matter.
Out on the lawn
much to my joy and surprise
a rectangular box appeared
in front of my eyes.
"But, tomorrow's the day!"
I exclaimed with some worry,
"That's ok", he responded
"I'm in too much of a hurry."
Then, like a flash he was gone
more deliveries to make
and with that box in my hand
I actually started to shake.
But before I could open
my treasure that day
The man in brown had
one more thing to say.
"I'll see you next Fall
for the new iphone delight.
Happy Activation to all
and to all a good night!"
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Still no delivery
. They have 45 minutes before they miss the 10:30 deadline.I wish I lived in your cities
11:47AM no iphone 5. Still says "by 3 PM"
Please post when it arrives. I'm waiting for mine by 3PM as well.
My phone that was originally supposed to arrive Oct 5th is now in "preparing to ship" status, so looks like I will get it earlier...
When did you order?
Just got mine. Had given up and left for work. Checked the status at a light and it showed delivered. Got back home and now restoring
Unfortunately, you should double check what delivery says. Mine says " by 3:00 P.M.(by end of day for residential deliveries)", which, for residential deliveries, apparently can mean anytime between 9:00AM and 7:00PM...
I'm in the same boat, though, was hoping to leave the house early today for the weekend, but my wife's phone has the same delivery time frame, so I guess we're waiting (and hoping that it comes earlier!)
It's noticable from the 4s to the 5, but I can imagine moving from the 4 it will be outstanding.
Also, I'm in bad area for AT&T, so won't be able to get a good LTE test until later.
Something about Apple requiring a delivery attempt before we were allowed to pick them up via willcall. In general, they were just not prepared. Took an hour to get them to finally start bringing out anybody's iPhone. The pisser is I was the first one there and it seemed to take even longer to find my iPhone. But I got the process started for the others....
Hope so. Sounds like they didn't code the activations screens to accomodate for this. I can't recall how that all went last year. I may have actually swapped SIMs since they were both micro-SIMs last year.
Yes i don't know why people would restore from backup on a brand new phone.
Just restore contacts and photos on iCloud
I always use an Exchange server, so my contacts come down with my e-mail.
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Still no delivery
Have faith!
Last year with my 4S, it was delivered around 9 am, but it was shipped from China with UPS World Ease. I got a 16GB phone this time, so it came from TN with UPS Next Day Air Saver. Whenever I get one-day delivery with Amazon, they send it with UPS Next Day Air Saver and I have to wait till the end of the day (normally 5 pm).
Annoying to know I likely have to sit by the door for a while, but oh well.
Annoying to know I likely have to sit by the door for a while, but oh well.
Just got my iPhone and it is sexy!!
I might make it mate with my iPhone 4 so I can sell the offspring!
Activating it was really easy!
I used the iCloud to restore everything... I will delete crappy apps that I don't use and photos that I meant to delete when I took them.
I might make it mate with my iPhone 4 so I can sell the offspring!
Activating it was really easy!
I used the iCloud to restore everything... I will delete crappy apps that I don't use and photos that I meant to delete when I took them.
Received mine at about 10:20, I never received an "Out for Delivery" notification. The last thing my tracking said was "Destination Scan". Was pleasantly surprised. I believe they are delivering all the 10:30's before the End of days. My wife had a phone coming to the same address and the driver said she would probably come back to deliver it, all 10:30's were taking priority.
9 am here in Seattle. Getting really excited, mine says delivery by 10:30. My apartment is on the top floor (3rd, double staircases for each floor, no elevator) at the very end of a long hallway. My only fear is that he won't even come upstairs.
Cross your fingers for me peeps!
Cross your fingers for me peeps!
The street cleaner went by and I leaped towards the window at 100mph.
me too....twice
but all is said and done... ups delivered about 40 mins late but i dont mind. activation was a breeze. lady was super nice helping me with the swap. thanks for the entertainment over the last week. enjoy your new phones everybody!!