I find it interesting that some people have a ship date as early as 10/10, even though it just showed up today. Others have 10/11, and others (like me) have 10/12. Seems like they're all actually shipping today, though, or the shipping services would have the tracking numbers active for 'earlier' shipments. The tracking number almost always becomes active once the package is picked up and scanned by the shipping company.
I didn't notice that. It looks like all the orders with early dates are being shipped through FedEX. Mine is shipping via UPS and has 10/12 as the ship date. I saw another screen shot of someone's order being shipped though UPS with 10/12 as the ship date as well.