make sure it arrived local facility and then call fedex to ask them keep it. you go over to pick up---bring ID.😀
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Can we pick up 17" MBP Unibody from FEDEX Facility?
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make sure it arrived local facility and then call fedex to ask them keep it. you go over to pick up---bring ID.😀
Outrigger
macrumors 68000
I don't think anyone here can answer OP's question. Your only way is to call the FedEx to know for sure. From my experience, 99% of the time you will not be able to just go and pick it up without them attempting to deliver first. You already waited this long, whats another couple of days?
mikes70mustang
macrumors 68000
Exactly, what r u gonna tell them? Im very impatient and would like to pick it up now?
xilni
macrumors member
My problem is I have a flight out of here on Sunday. So Monday delivery means further delays.
Im waiting on my mbp due this monday at 10:30, but rite now its on its way to alaska. hopefully it gets here (long island, ny) tmw. Im in the same "boat" as fishermanbb lol. im def going to pick it up sat if it gets here in time!!!!
The Samurai
macrumors 68020
I'm pretty certain that you can only pick it up once they have atleast attempted delivery once.
Best to call your local depot and confirm. Its how UPS work, not sure about Fedex.
Best to call your local depot and confirm. Its how UPS work, not sure about Fedex.
ok so i did a little reserach on my package. Its has 2 hours left to arrive at PANC, Alaska. its currently 1:39 pm EST. Anyone know if Fedex does direct flights from PANC to Memphis?
wait i just realized the 24th is tuseday 🙁 i thought it was monday. so im supposed to get my mbp tuseday 🙁. but it landed in alaska already i just need customs to clear it so it can get shipped out today 🙁
My package still says "In Transit" from Indy....Can't be as it left at 3:40 this morning....Ive found sometimes they need to play catch up in the tracking screen....I'll check later but if it makes it to the local depot tomorow I'm GOING to pick it up....My local depot is in Calverton and if it's there all I can say is " MAC Me baby!"
Repo
macrumors 6502a
Seriously! Is the OP so impatient that he can't wait a few days for his laptop to be hand delivered to his door? Save the gas, and be patient.
sickmacdoc
macrumors 68020
So what does yours say for "Expected delivery" at the top of your tracking results??
Nikos
macrumors 68000
My laptop just arrived in Newark, NJ. If it makes it to Long Island (my location) by tomorrow, I'm hoping to be able to pick it up. I've picked up other things at FedEx before, but I believe that was after a first delivery attempt.
I'm patient, but if I can have it early why wait? 😛
I'm patient, but if I can have it early why wait? 😛
Mine has been in Indiana from Feb 20th at 1:03 AM till Feb 20th at 6:37PM. Sitting there for over 17 hours. Finally its departed, but still has no update of it arriving anywhere yet. So its been in transit for the last 8 hours!!
Its supposed to be here in NY.. don't know if I can go to a facility Saturday and pick it up! :-(
infernohellion
macrumors 6502
I am having the same problem right now but in Melbourne, Australia. It arrived here Saturday morning into their local depot here. The thing is that it take about the same amount of time of shipment from China to Melbourne to have them delivered from their depot in Melbourne to my house which is also in Melbourne.
:'(
:'(
mine also arrived at Newark 1:30am today. They can't leave it at the airport till Monday can they? Will they bring it to their facility today?
I'm wondering the same thing....mine is at Newark now as well. Next stop is Jamaica (I sound like the LIRR) and then Calverton. It usually only takes about 2 hours from the time it gets to Jamaica until it gets to Calverton but that is on a weekday. However, from Newark to Jamaica can take anywhere from 3 - 12 hours. (Basing this on the other 4 shipments I received from Apple this week)....So...My guess is I won't see it until Monday which at this point is no big deal......
Fedex and Apple Contract is unfair
If you didn't talk to Apple before Friday about picking up your package you are out of luck if you want to pick it up on Saturday. You'll have it Monday. I'm in the same pickle with my MBP17Unibody. It's sitting at a Fedex location only 5 miles from my house; it's been there since 8:42 this morning and I have to wait 'til Monday by 10:30am. I just don't believe Fedex will be on time.
My MBP17Unibody order shipment should have been at my doorstep last Monday, but something went wrong in China. Someone at Apple should have had the hindsight to make arrangements so that customers with delayed orders would be able to pick up packages on Saturday. I have a small business and I am likely to lose work because of the delay. Apple doesn't seem to care. I've been a loyal apple customer for 10 years. Things have really changed there. Now they call themselves geniuses and look down on their customers. But it's the users who create the genius. Apple seems to have adopted an arrogant corporate model that it didn't have before. Is Apple the new Dell?
This is Windows time to take advantage of Apples arrogance and knock 'em down. When windows comes up with an operating system that feels good to the creative market, then I might have to switch. Apple dumped me big time and I not going to run after her and beg her to take me back. See, I'm already having fantasies of switching to an Windows PC. Apple could woe me back, but at this point I just don't see how.
Broken-hearted but will survive,
ManuelAppleSeed
If you didn't talk to Apple before Friday about picking up your package you are out of luck if you want to pick it up on Saturday. You'll have it Monday. I'm in the same pickle with my MBP17Unibody. It's sitting at a Fedex location only 5 miles from my house; it's been there since 8:42 this morning and I have to wait 'til Monday by 10:30am. I just don't believe Fedex will be on time.
My MBP17Unibody order shipment should have been at my doorstep last Monday, but something went wrong in China. Someone at Apple should have had the hindsight to make arrangements so that customers with delayed orders would be able to pick up packages on Saturday. I have a small business and I am likely to lose work because of the delay. Apple doesn't seem to care. I've been a loyal apple customer for 10 years. Things have really changed there. Now they call themselves geniuses and look down on their customers. But it's the users who create the genius. Apple seems to have adopted an arrogant corporate model that it didn't have before. Is Apple the new Dell?
This is Windows time to take advantage of Apples arrogance and knock 'em down. When windows comes up with an operating system that feels good to the creative market, then I might have to switch. Apple dumped me big time and I not going to run after her and beg her to take me back. See, I'm already having fantasies of switching to an Windows PC. Apple could woe me back, but at this point I just don't see how.
Broken-hearted but will survive,
ManuelAppleSeed
Pick up Fedex shipment Saturday, Feb. 21
If anybody is able to pick up a Fedex shipment from Apple this Saturday, Feb. 21, please let us know how you made that happen.
Broken-hearted but will survive in Corpus Christi, TX,
ManuelAppleSeed
If anybody is able to pick up a Fedex shipment from Apple this Saturday, Feb. 21, please let us know how you made that happen.
Broken-hearted but will survive in Corpus Christi, TX,
ManuelAppleSeed
The Samurai
macrumors 68020
So your pis*ed off because Fedex wouldn't let you pick your package up, and this gives you the notion that OSX sucks and Windows will do a better job in the future?
Sweet.
Technically, Apple can't do much. It's up to the carrier whether or not you can come for collection. It depends on their staffing levels i.e. how many, if at all, staff work on Saturdays at your local facility. They can't just wait around because some guy feels its ok to pick their consignment up early.
Sorry, but thats a flawed argument.
pickup
Hey dudes, first post. I, too, am an impatient guy. Mine is scheduled to be delivered here (Austin, TX) on monday, like a lot of you. I called fedex, and at least the story here in austin is, the package is here in town, but in a sealed container that they get off of their airplane. I called twice to their line (different tactics each time) to get them to open it up, but they said they don't have the man power to go through the whole thing on a Saturday, and that they have to scan every package in the container if they open it. The one person I talked to said the containers hold hundreds/thousands of packages.
How much of that is true, I dunno, but the second person I talked to sounded pretty genuine about the whole thing.
Hey dudes, first post. I, too, am an impatient guy. Mine is scheduled to be delivered here (Austin, TX) on monday, like a lot of you. I called fedex, and at least the story here in austin is, the package is here in town, but in a sealed container that they get off of their airplane. I called twice to their line (different tactics each time) to get them to open it up, but they said they don't have the man power to go through the whole thing on a Saturday, and that they have to scan every package in the container if they open it. The one person I talked to said the containers hold hundreds/thousands of packages.
How much of that is true, I dunno, but the second person I talked to sounded pretty genuine about the whole thing.
Just Venting
If you don't own your own business or make a living as a freelance artist then you wouldn't understand why I would be upset about this delayed shipment from Apple. Obviously, I will get over it. I was simply venting. I do have a life. And yes, this weekend I do have a lot of time on my hands.
I forgot about the senators with knives in the Forum.
When I get my MBP17Unibody2.9 I might think it was worth the delay and all the trouble it caused.
Just venting in Corpus Christi.
If you don't own your own business or make a living as a freelance artist then you wouldn't understand why I would be upset about this delayed shipment from Apple. Obviously, I will get over it. I was simply venting. I do have a life. And yes, this weekend I do have a lot of time on my hands.
I forgot about the senators with knives in the Forum.
When I get my MBP17Unibody2.9 I might think it was worth the delay and all the trouble it caused.
Just venting in Corpus Christi.