I can feel my hopes rising again, but i can only see that as possible if they got on a plane yesterday afternoon straight to the UK. To be fair though, those times on TNT i am assuming are Chinese times, thus it has been almost 36 hours since:
12 Jun 2007 09:00 Pudong International Airport Potential Linehaul Delay Due To Technical Problems
I believe those times are local to the 'event' so your assumption makes sense to me. I just had an email from the Apple rep I spoke to this morning confirming it's still in Pudong and they're trying to get it shipped 'as soon as possible'.
In response I sent quite a long email expressing my dissatisfaction with their choice of carrier (as well as cheap shipping for a premium product), and the repeated misinformation.
The more people that complain to them the more likely they are to do something about it. UK customers should at least be offered an option to upgrade their shipping when paying for one of the more expensive products on the market. We need to let them know this is NOT acceptable.