As I mentioned in the first post, we ordered three 64BG gold AT&T phones. Two were ordered on my wife's AppleID and one was ordered on mine. My wife's orders were confirmed first and third while mine was in the middle. The middle order shipped for Sep 26 delivery and the first and third orders shipped for Sep 27 delivery.
We have te same address and it seems that order time and shipping time do not exactly correlate.