Good point, I sure hope you're right! I would love to be surprised in a few hours to see that my package has landed on an "invisible" flight!
Good point, I sure hope you're right! I would love to be surprised in a few hours to see that my package has landed on an "invisible" flight!
. Mine cleared customs too btw!
It's exciting to see people having their package in the U.S. so close to delivery!
My theory is that those of us who are still "stuck" in Shanghai with the 3:20am time stamp are on the West Coast, and thus our batch is scheduled for the Anchorage flight, or some other unknown flight that lands somewhere closer to the West Coast than Memphis. Is there anyone out there with the 3:20am time stamp who's not on the West Coast, cause that would pretty much disprove my theory.
It's exciting to see people having their package in the U.S. so close to delivery!
My theory is that those of us who are still "stuck" in Shanghai with the 3:20am time stamp are on the West Coast, and thus our batch is scheduled for the Anchorage flight, or some other unknown flight that lands somewhere closer to the West Coast than Memphis. Is there anyone out there with the 3:20am time stamp who's not on the West Coast, cause that would pretty much disprove my theory.
I have that same time stamp..and I live in the midwest. Tenessee is def closer to Illinois..wish mine would've caught that flight
New Poll....How many times an hour do you hit refresh on tracking info
I don't. I have an iPhone app that push notifies me when there's a change in status.
I don't. I have an iPhone app that push notifies me when there's a change in status.
It's exciting to see people having their package in the U.S. so close to delivery!
My theory is that those of us who are still "stuck" in Shanghai with the 3:20am time stamp are on the West Coast, and thus our batch is scheduled for the Anchorage flight, or some other unknown flight that lands somewhere closer to the West Coast than Memphis. Is there anyone out there with the 3:20am time stamp who's not on the West Coast, cause that would pretty much disprove my theory.
If it makes you feel better, mine is expedited (although I didn't pay for it, Apple service rep upgraded it for me), so I'm not sure expedited would have made a difference. Our delay is really odd.
Yes, we are assuming that we have more information about specific FedEx flights than their tracking system *provides to us*. Certainly their internal tracking data is far more revealing than what fedex.com shows, but they don't share most of that with us. We've quite successfully inferred things like "in transit" scans in Shanghai that match flight times meaning the package was on that flight; a bunch of folks, including me, just had their MBPs arrive in Memphis on the flight that they were assumed to be on.
Also, various folks have already reported getting their shipments a day earlier than the "scheduled" delivery date. It's actually possible to get to about anywhere reasonably close to a major US city in 1 business day from when the flights depart Shanghai.
The airports outside of FlightAware's service area are of course a minor problem. However, for flights to/from their service area, they're generally pretty accurate. E.g., all the PVG-ANC and PVG-MEM flights that have been used so far showed up on FlightAware, and we matched people's tracking info to those flights. There are some things going via routes that would take flights that can't be tracked there, but the majority are not.
Basically, this is just a fun thing to do to pass the time while we wait for our new MBPs to arrive. Think of it as a game; I assumed my laptop was on the PVG-MEM flight when its second "in transit" timestamp exactly matched the PVG-MEM flight yesterday...and found out that assumption was correct about an hour ago.
