iPad Can someone explain iPad tracking process?

[Elbert C]

Why does my refurbished iPad tracking show it came in to the US, back out to Asia, then right back into USA and then back out to Asia?
Destination is Alaska.

 

[XTheLancerX]

Wow I have no idea, to be completely honest. Could be botched scans, could be some sort of issue that they ran into with shipping, etc... I remember I ordered an iPod touch 5th gen back in September of 2012 and it went from anchorage to Nashville, to somewhere in Pennsylvania, back to Nashville, then into Kentucky. Then it eventually made its way up to New York. Took forever.

 

[minimo3]

Time zones/crossing the international date line. Hong Kong/Taiwan are 10 hours ahead of PST and Japan is 11 hours ahead I believe. A flight from NRT-SFO is around 9hrs so you could leave Tokyo at 10am on Thursday and arrive in San Francisco at 8am on the same day going back in time.

The scans on the tracking page don't adjust to GMT, they are just showing local time in where ever it was scanned.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Not unusual. I have seen crazy stuff like that when getting Apple products from China.

Just relax and when it hits stateside tracking is much more dependable

 

[Elbert C]

Tracking shows it's in AK on it's way to me via USPS.
I had no doubts it would eventually get to AK. Fedexs tracking is really odd that it showed it originated from CN then on to HK > CA > TW > CA > JP > TN > AK.

Wow I have no idea, to be completely honest. Could be botched scans, could be some sort of issue that they ran into with shipping, etc... I remember I ordered an iPod touch 5th gen back in September of 2012 and it went from anchorage to Nashville, to somewhere in Pennsylvania, back to Nashville, then into Kentucky. Then it eventually made its way up to New York. Took forever.

I once ordered a couple iPods that both arrived in Anchorage at the same time. One of them went for a ride around the states while the other waited in Anchorage.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

As others have mentioned, the international date line is fooling you. The times listed are *LOCAL* time. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are UTC +8, Japan is UTC +9, Oakland is UTC -8, Alaska is UTC -9.

So the actual path was (all converted to Alaska time):

Date/Time			Activity						Location
12/8/2014 10:01 PM	Shipment information sent to FedEx	China?
12/9/2014 9:27 AM	Picked up				Shenzhen, China
12/9/2014 1:03 PM	Left FedEx origin facility		Shenzhen, China
12/9/2014 1:55 PM	In transit				Lantau Island, Hong Kong
12/9/2014 7:42 PM	In transit				Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong
12/9/2014 11:42 PM	In transit				Ta Yuan Hsiang, Taiwan
12/10/2014 3:12 AM	In transit				Sennan-Shi, Japan
12/10/2014 3:22 AM	In transit				Sennan-Shi, Japan
12/11/2014 5:29 AM	Arrived at FedEx location		Oakland, CA, USA
12/11/2014 8:42 AM	International shipment release - Import	Oakland, CA, USA

You'll note that in your screenshot there is a "Select time zone" drop-down that defaults to "Local Scan Time", which can make it confusing when things cross the international date line as it sorts based on the date/time *DISPLAYED*. Switch that drop-down to "Destination" and it will show everything in your time zone. (Which will reorder items to the proper order!)

 

[Elbert C]

As others have mentioned, the international date line is fooling you. The times listed are *LOCAL* time. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are UTC +8, Japan is UTC +9, Oakland is UTC -8, Alaska is UTC -9.

So the actual path was (all converted to Alaska time):

Date/Time			Activity						Location
12/8/2014 10:01 PM	Shipment information sent to FedEx	China?
12/9/2014 9:27 AM	Picked up				Shenzhen, China
12/9/2014 1:03 PM	Left FedEx origin facility		Shenzhen, China
12/9/2014 1:55 PM	In transit				Lantau Island, Hong Kong
12/9/2014 7:42 PM	In transit				Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong
12/9/2014 11:42 PM	In transit				Ta Yuan Hsiang, Taiwan
12/10/2014 3:12 AM	In transit				Sennan-Shi, Japan
12/10/2014 3:22 AM	In transit				Sennan-Shi, Japan
12/11/2014 5:29 AM	Arrived at FedEx location		Oakland, CA, USA
12/11/2014 8:42 AM	International shipment release - Import	Oakland, CA, USA

You'll note that in your screenshot there is a "Select time zone" drop-down that defaults to "Local Scan Time", which can make it confusing when things cross the international date line as it sorts based on the date/time *DISPLAYED*. Switch that drop-down to "Destination" and it will show everything in your time zone. (Which will reorder items to the proper order!)

Got it. Thank you. I got confused with "Local Scan Time" thinking it was the same as AK time.

 

[rigormortis]

i heard about this

this is what i was told


FEDEX makes up scans and pretends to scan your item

they put all the known iPads in one big giant crate
scanning the crate scans all the individual ipads at once

the crate shows up short and your iPad is missing

it turns out it was in a different crate and that is why you see this

china does not send out iPads individually to be scanned once at a time by fedex. fedex scans the container