Yep, that's my shipment. Makes no sense to me, unless they are backlogged. It was originally supposed to get here tomorrow, we'll see what happens overnight tonight.
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Yep, that's my shipment. Makes no sense to me, unless they are backlogged. It was originally supposed to get here tomorrow, we'll see what happens overnight tonight.
I have the same last scan as you. And UPS still says delivery today 10/1... but im in northern CA lol.
Mine is also in Louisville and scheduled to be delivered to my home in OKC today. Stranger things have happened, but it would still need to go to a regional hub before getting to OKC. So I would not be shocked to see that delivery estimate change...again.
WTF - most impressive screw up yet - somewhere I think they for the tracking numbers in the manifest screwed up. If the phones are shrink wrapped on pallets, I doubt the unwrap them to scan each item every time, so their computer must handle it my manifest data. And that's screwed up thir tracking.It is really weird trip:
Location Date Local Time Activity
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 10/01/2014 7:27 P.M. Departure Scan
10/01/2014 4:08 P.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 10/01/2014 1:51 P.M. Departure Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 09/30/2014 8:30 P.M. Arrival Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/30/2014 7:18 P.M. Departure Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 09/30/2014 7:17 P.M. Arrival Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/30/2014 4:19 P.M. Departure Scan
Louisville, KY, United States 09/28/2014 6:33 A.M. Arrival Scan
Anchorage, AK, United States 09/27/2014 8:25 P.M. Departure Scan
09/27/2014 6:37 P.M. Arrival Scan
Shanghai, China 09/28/2014 2:05 A.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/26/2014 11:21 P.M. Location Scan
09/26/2014 6:29 P.M. Origin Scan
China 09/27/2014 7:50 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
This is my third iPhone pre-order and I so agree. In the past, it's been funky and hard to wait it out, but never to the extent this has been - shipments being "stuck". It sure seems there's a plug in the system that's backing up the entire flow and my guess is that the location is Louisville. My phone has been there since Sunday as well.
Also I'm mystified as to how 10/2 delivery has become the magic number for many orders in transit, even those ordered as much as a week after the pre-orders went live. I ordered at 3:30 am on the first day with a 10/2 delivery date that was scaled back from 10/13-20.
If anyone actually GETS their iPhone, would you please post that here so we know that deliveries are actually being made? Those of us in limbo would really appreciate any encouraging word.
Yeah if they scanned every phone that would take for ever. I would think each pallet has a tracking number and all the items in the pallet are linked to it.
You guys are not alone... I am addicted to watching, and watching and watching and watching and watching. LOL
I'm in the "stuck in Zhengzhou" club for my 6+ 128GB, shipping to Maryland.
Location Date Local Time Activity
ZhengZhou, China 10/01/2014 4:30 P.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/30/2014 5:15 P.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/26/2014 11:31 P.M. Arrival Scan
09/26/2014 10:54 P.M. Location Scan
09/26/2014 4:18 P.M. Origin Scan
China 09/26/2014 8:22 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
A lot of us on the 5:15pm and 4:30pm departure scans, I'm not lucky enough to have made the mystery mileage run to Incheon yet, if that's even in the cards for my phone.
There's gotta be something screwy going on with UPS, either their capacity or their tracking. They're showing me a Monday 10/6 delivery, which still beats the original expectation of 10/13-20, but I ordered within 6 hours of the opening bell, which was a letdown to begin with. But now it's an extra letdown to know that it was shipped and is somewhere on its way but has been rotting in a warehouse in Zhengzhou for five days now.
Do you have a source on this, or is this sheer speculation?
I cannot imagine it would be true. I can't imagine what the business rationale for this would be. You want to underpromise and overdeliver, not underpromise and then purposely underdeliver when you could have overdelivered. In the meantime, holding shipments would create a colossal logistics, storage, and sorting nightmare for UPS that would be immensely costly. If they did want to do that, it would make much more sense for Apple to hold them themselves. And why would anyone, at Apple or UPS, invite the PR nightmare inherent in that ever getting out?
"We told UPS to hold shipments that could have been delivered to our customers who paid hundreds of dollars for a phone, just because, no reason really, just we wanted to make them wait longer."
"We allowed Apple to tell us to slow down our package deliveries; they didn't really tell us why but we figured it was OK to be complicit in screwing our customers over, even when it cost us extra money and headaches, because, hey, we're UPS, and we hate our customers, and don't mind if you know it."
I know people love to hate on business, but this just doesn't make any business sense at all.
Location Date Local Time Activity
ZhengZhou, China 10/01/2014 4:30 P.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/30/2014 5:15 P.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/26/2014 11:31 P.M. Arrival Scan
09/26/2014 10:54 P.M. Location Scan
09/26/2014 4:18 P.M. Origin Scan
China 09/26/2014 8:22 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
A lot of us on the 5:15pm and 4:30pm departure scans, I'm not lucky enough to have made the mystery mileage run to Incheon yet, if that's even in the cards for my phone.
There's gotta be something screwy going on with UPS, either their capacity or their tracking. They're showing me a Monday 10/6 delivery, which still beats the original expectation of 10/13-20, but I ordered within 6 hours of the opening bell, which was a letdown to begin with. But now it's an extra letdown to know that it was shipped and is somewhere on its way but has been rotting in a warehouse in Zhengzhou for five days now.
Do you have a source on this, or is this sheer speculation?
I cannot imagine it would be true. I can't imagine what the business rationale for this would be. You want to underpromise and overdeliver, not underpromise and then purposely underdeliver when you could have overdelivered. In the meantime, holding shipments would create a colossal logistics, storage, and sorting nightmare for UPS that would be immensely costly. If they did want to do that, it would make much more sense for Apple to hold them themselves. And why would anyone, at Apple or UPS, invite the PR nightmare inherent in that ever getting out?
"We told UPS to hold shipments that could have been delivered to our customers who paid hundreds of dollars for a phone, just because, no reason really, just we wanted to make them wait longer."
"We allowed Apple to tell us to slow down our package deliveries; they didn't really tell us why but we figured it was OK to be complicit in screwing our customers over, even when it cost us extra money and headaches, because, hey, we're UPS, and we hate our customers, and don't mind if you know it."
I know people love to hate on business, but this just doesn't make any business sense at all.
Then it must be in Louisville that they break up the pallets into individual packages? What a nightmare that must be.
So according to this
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS59/history/20141001/1315Z/VHHH/PANC
My phone is on route to Anchorage
With a scheduled delivery of the 6th and UPS choice saying the 2 nd
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UPS59/history/20141001/1315Z/VHHH/PANC
My phone is on route to Anchorage
With a scheduled delivery of the 6th and UPS choice saying the 2 nd
I've probably dug my own grave, but I just tweeted a couple of tweets to Tim Cook about this mess. He'll probably ignore it, but what the hey.
WTF I thought once I made it to Incheon I'd get to go to Anchorage? Now I'm back in China, this time Hong Kong, delivery date pushed from Friday to Monday.
Meanwhile the protesters in Hong Kong are talking about calling for labor strikes.
Meanwhile the protesters in Hong Kong are talking about calling for labor strikes.
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I too have made the second mystical departure from ZZ. Same rubber time stamps as yours. I too am in Maryland. You know what they say about misery.
It might have missed some scans . I am in the same boat as you waiting on mine down here in Alabama
How do you get the custom window delivery on your ups page. Did you pay for the ups choice?
So, I got an email this morning from UPS:
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The UPS site says another:
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Which is it, man??? LOL
LOL. I got the same email.
I see your point in requesting proof that Apple has requested UPS to withhold deliveries until specified dates and/or date ranges. Apple has done this in the past for release day of new iPhones. So, we do know that they do collaborate with UPS as well as Fedex to withhold shipments. I'm not sure if there is any specific evidence that would indicate Apple requesting UPS to withhold deliveries now. However, there is a ton of circumstantial evidence. I have seen way too many people on this forum indicate that UPS is delaying delivery of their iPhones to match Apple's expected delivery date range instead of what UPS initially indicates.
Same here, but that has to be a tracking problem. I can't imagine they would take them back to China after finally getting them moved forward.