FedEx Planning for 'Surge Volume' Event September 21-24, Coinciding with Rumored iPhone 5 Launch Date

[Technarchy]

Is this really front page news?

Anyone planning to pre-order, this should be a factor to them since they don't want to get their phone a week late because Fedex couldn't deal with the additional volume.

 

[Blorzoga]

I can't understand why people are already dead set on pre ordering without even seeing the device officially. I have the 3GS, 4S, and new iPad and can't bring myself to buy another idevice with only upgrade (allegedly) a .5 inch bigger screen. iOS 6 is not a huge upgrade and honestly I'm just tired of using the same os. I love iOS but I think ios 6 should have introduced a different UI.

Good luck with that.

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Something I got to thinking about the other day.. They're only at iOS6 beta 4. AFAIK, there hasn't been a GM release. While I realize they could drop the GM any day now, don't they usually have a 2 week windows from GM release to full blown roll-out? Wondering how they're going to get iOS6 finished in time.

Of course the new iPhone will ship with ios6.

 

[ixodes]

lol...we're even down to the shipping carrier now?

Actually this is nothing new.

I know my FedEx driver very well since I buy something from Apple online, Lenovo online, Newegg, J&R or Amazon nearly every week. I'm such a tech addict.

FedEx has had special procedures for Apple since iDevices drove up Apples shipping volume so high. In addition being smaller packages than laptops & such, FedEx must guard against theft, a huge task in itself.

So, I'm a bit surprised they're reporting this now, since it's no secret, every iPhone launch has been very busy.