EUROPE MacBook Pros 14” and 16” inch Pre-orders, Orders and Delivery Status

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ooans said:
My estimate for 16" M1Pro 32GB 2TB heading for Finland has finally shipped today 27th. (Ordered about two hours after event.)

Original time estimate was 4th-9th November, but now the estimate has changed to 01.11.2021. (I feel since this is the Europe thread, it's ok to use DD.MM.YYYY! :) )

(I got "Preparing to Ship" on 23rd of November IIRC, and the money was taken a couple days before.)
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I guess we‘re on the same boat…err…truck…err…flight then!
Mine is also scheduled to arrive on Monday, 1.11.2021.
 
ooans said:
My estimate for 16" M1Pro 32GB 2TB heading for Finland has finally shipped today 27th. (Ordered about two hours after event.)

Original time estimate was 4th-9th November, but now the estimate has changed to 01.11.2021. (I feel since this is the Europe thread, it's ok to use DD.MM.YYYY! :) )

(I got "Preparing to Ship" on 23rd of November IIRC, and the money was taken a couple days before.)
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At this stage I would think apple delivery estimate is unrealistic since a bottleneck is happening as I type at UPS. I'm also in Finland, ordered immediatly after the event. Planned delivery was today, but the mbp has been sitting in a Shanghai warehouse since Monday... Now in that UPS mechanical failure imbroglio...I doubt UPS will be able to deal with stacked up parcels while meeting promised delivery dates.
 
krapello said:
Another datapoint from the UK. Ordered 16" Max 64GB 1TB straight after the event when the store came back.

"We're processing your order" email received 1859 UTC+1 on Oct 18. Est. delivery Oct 29 - Nov 2.

"Dispatch Notification" email received 1546 UTC+1 on Oct 25. Est. delivery Oct 29 - Nov 2.

DHL Express tracking report:
"Shipment picked up
Monday, October 25, 2021 at 17:31
Origin Service Area:
SHANGHAI - CHINA MAINLAND"
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A few of us are in the same boat. No updates 48+ hours
 
loicsans said:
At this stage I would think apple delivery estimate is unrealistic since a bottleneck is happening as I type at UPS. I'm also in Finland, ordered immediatly after the event. Planned delivery was today, but the mbp has been sitting in a Shanghai warehouse since Monday... Now in that UPS mechanical failure imbroglio...I doubt UPS will be able to deal with stacked up parcels while meeting promised delivery dates.
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I'm sure it's unrealistic as Apple still says I will receive it the 27th lol
 
My 14" BTO with 3-6th November delivery was charged on Monday. I was really encouraged to get it earlier. But after reading about the delays here I think it won't make it this week...
 
What did you all order?

14" Space Gray 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU en 16-core Neural Engine M1 Pro, 32GB RAM, 1TB storage here (International ENG keyboard)

And I need this to be delivered because I keep thinking I should have ordered the silver (as I've always had silver) hahaha.
 
JillStraw said:
Me too … I ordered on the 18th, about an hour after the announcement, 16” Max 64GB 1TB. How about you? I keep hoping apple will pull a surprise earlier delivery time! ??
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I think apple is doing its upmost to ship all their orders quickly and by what we can read around in this forum, mbp's are leaving apple's warehouse a lot earlier than expected, the problem occurs once it's handed over to the shipping company, it's totally out of their hands...Right now, it seems TNT and DHL are doing a pretty good job while UPS doesn't seem to lift up to expectations. "Mind the gap between the expectations and the actual service!"
 
Tb87Bln said:
Well, I certainly dislike that I can’t find any scheduled flights by UPS from Shanghai to anywhere…
(something in the direction of the US wouldn’t help either I guess)
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Looking at all UPS planes around in the area, I guess the only one that might head for Shanghai anytime soon is this one that just landed in Seoul and has no other outbound flight planned yet: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n607up
 
So it could be that they’re in Seoul? Given the UPS plane that was being repaired there. I don’t trust UPS knowing exactly where they are.
 
MLVC said:
So it could be that they’re in Seoul? Given the UPS plane that was being repaired there. I don’t trust UPS knowing exactly where they are.
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The update says the parcels are moving again, but I think it means the issue has been fixed and they can now be forwarded. Not that they are.

UPS requires a departure/export scan. There is no scan for Shanghai. If the MBPs were in Seoul now, they'd be scanned at the facility.

Also their UPS airplane was scheduled to leave Seoul and fly to Shanghai. It turned back to Seoul and still is there. Unless some plane flies to Shanghai now, it is impossible for UPS to ship them to Seoul for further transit :(

EDIT: According to historical flight data, the plane from Shanghai to Seoul should leave between 2 and 4 AM CEST. If not, probably another 24 hours of waiting time.

You may check UPS 5X10. If the plane from Seoul to Shanghai does not move between 8 and 10 PM CEST, it won't start today which makes it not come back to Seoul to fly to Cologne.

The plane starts as 5X10 from Seoul to Shanghai and then is named 5X11 from Shanghai via Seoul to Cologne.
 
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It has been almost a day now. I am baffled by the fact that UPS hasn't released any update about this mechanical issue to customers or the press. Very shady indeed.
 
alexqndr said:
It has been almost a day now. I am baffled by the fact that UPS hasn't released any update about this mechanical issue to customers or the press. Very shady indeed.
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These kind of delays incidents happen everyday, for them it's probably just an other day in the office, coincidently it happens the day / week apple finally start shipping long awaited new mbp...:)
 
Macusercom said:
The update says the parcels are moving again, but I think it means the issue has been fixed and they can now be forwarded. Not that they are.

UPS requires a departure/export scan. There is no scan for Shanghai. If the MBPs were in Seoul now, they'd be scanned at the facility.

Also their UPS airplane was scheduled to leave Seoul and fly to Shanghai. It turned back to Seoul and still is there. Unless some plane flies to Shanghai now, it is impossible for UPS to ship them to Seoul for further transit :(

EDIT: According to historical flight data, the plane from Shanghai to Seoul should leave between 2 and 4 AM CEST. If not, probably another 24 hours of waiting time.

You may check UPS 5X10. If the plane from Seoul to Shanghai does not move between 8 and 10 PM CEST, it won't start today which makes it not come back to Seoul to fly to Cologne.

The plane starts as 5X10 from Seoul to Shanghai and then is named 5X11 from Shanghai via Seoul to Cologne.
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Thanks for the research! Sounds plausible to me…


But still… I want a plane to appear right now in Shanghai to transport those MacBooks to somewhere else that’s not the other end of the world… (imagine me stomping with my foot..) ??
 
loicsans said:
These kind of delays incidents happen everyday, for them it's probably just an other day in the office, coincidently it happens the day / week apple finally start shipping long awaited new mbp...:)
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I highly doubt that. Major Apple products releases are planned events in coordination between Apple and UPS. Apple is paying money for the service and they expect a certain quality in return.

I am pretty sure this is being discussed by both Apple and UPS management. Confirmation of that is that despite the delays the expected delivery dates haven't been changed. That signals to me that they are scrambling to find a way around the problem. If it was just another day at UPS, they would have moved the expected delivery by several days for thousand of customers, without a second though. And yet, here we are after a day with no status update.

Apple knows that if the online pre-order experience sucks, due to shipping delays, people will be deterred to do it again. So their image is at stake too.
 
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Macusercom said:
The update says the parcels are moving again, but I think it means the issue has been fixed and they can now be forwarded. Not that they are.

UPS requires a departure/export scan. There is no scan for Shanghai. If the MBPs were in Seoul now, they'd be scanned at the facility.

Also their UPS airplane was scheduled to leave Seoul and fly to Shanghai. It turned back to Seoul and still is there. Unless some plane flies to Shanghai now, it is impossible for UPS to ship them to Seoul for further transit :(

EDIT: According to historical flight data, the plane from Shanghai to Seoul should leave between 2 and 4 AM CEST. If not, probably another 24 hours of waiting time.

You may check UPS 5X10. If the plane from Seoul to Shanghai does not move between 8 and 10 PM CEST, it won't start today which makes it not come back to Seoul to fly to Cologne.

The plane starts as 5X10 from Seoul to Shanghai and then is named 5X11 from Shanghai via Seoul to Cologne.
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If I understand Flightradar24 correctly the flight Seol to Cologne today got canceled…
 
God waiting/refreshing like a maniac is annoying XD. I ordered less than 10 mins after the keynote thinking i'd get it early. Alas - "Mechanical breakdown bullcrap... Meanwhile a couple of my coworkers who had no idea about the new pros till monday, strolled into the local Apple store on Tuesday afternoon and picked up their new 16' M1 Pro MBPs. Never using preorder again.
 
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