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Homestretch: The UPS Import Scan @ Louisville

It's important to remember that UPS is a 24 hour operation. They have people running around all night. While we are dreaming of our new gadgets, these guys are loading the planes and trucks.

It's all good guys, just one more day.

Unless you're in my boat- I'll probably be at work until 10pm tomorrow and won't get to play with my new toy until 11 or so haha.
 
My black 64GB:

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The wife's white 64GB, which has been sitting in KY for a couple days:

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AML225 said:
From the information I've gathered from other posts during NORMAL operations UPS in Louisville starts to get very hectic and ship things out at around 2 or 3am each morning. Additionally, due to the anticipated increase in volume workers are being asked to start their shifts several hours early tonight/tomorrw. Because of this I anticipate that somtime between 10pm and 3am tonight/tomorrow morning we will see departure scan from Louisville. Should make it to our regional hubs fairly early in the morning tomorrow then finally to our local UPS warehouse to be put on the truck for delivery by about 7-9am tomorrow morning.

Again this is just my best guess based on information I've gathered. I am by no means an expert. I certainly hope I'm wrong and they start flying out of Louisville within the next few hours! Just wanted to share.
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Seems like an awful lot of work to be done in just 8 hours, including travel distance. I hope Brown can kick it into gear! Very insightful.
 
I work off-duty at the Louisville UPS hub, including working tonight, and it is truly amazing how it all works in there. Planes usually leave out between 2:15 and 5 am at the latest. The west coast planes leave earlier due to flight time but as you west coast people know they gain three hours back during flight.

Like I have said in a few other posts, they have this down to a science. 99.9% of you will be holding your phones tomorrow even though they are sitting 5 miles from me right now.
 
kycophpd said:
I work off-duty at the Louisville UPS hub, including working tonight, and it is truly amazing how it all works in there. Planes usually leave out between 2:15 and 5 am at the latest. The west coast planes leave earlier due to flight time but as you west coast people know they gain three hours back during flight.

Like I have said in a few other posts, they have this down to a science. 99.9% of you will be holding your phones tomorrow even though they are sitting 5 miles from me right now.
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So are you hand picking out yours tonight? :D
 
kycophpd said:
I work off-duty at the Louisville UPS hub, including working tonight, and it is truly amazing how it all works in there. Planes usually leave out between 2:15 and 5 am at the latest. The west coast planes leave earlier due to flight time but as you west coast people know they gain three hours back during flight.

Like I have said in a few other posts, they have this down to a science. 99.9% of you will be holding your phones tomorrow even though they are sitting 5 miles from me right now.
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Nice to hear my phone is in good hands! My question is are there planes leaving throughout the day as well or do they only run at night? Maybe I should check flightaware.com
 
moetownslick said:
Some of the screenshots posted show "special instructions: signature required". My tracking info doesn't show this. does this mean i don't have to be there to sign?
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You know even when they "require" that, it's up to the driver, it's their discretion. If you leave a note saying you authorize them to leave the package and take full responsibility and put your tracking number, name, and signature, they will (have always in my case) take the note and leave the package.
 
iBreatheApple said:
You know even when they "require" that, it's up to the driver, it's their discretion. If you leave a note saying you authorize them to leave the package and take full responsibility and put your tracking number, name, and signature, they will (have always in my case) take the note and leave the package.
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If there is a signature required and the UPS delivery driver makes a decision to leave it without a pre-sign release or some note on the door (the note never worked for any Apple orders I've ever had delivered), then the driver will be held responsible if something were to happen. The investigation would result in there being no proof of signature or waiver. They don't get to exercise their own discretion. If they choose to do this they're going against policy and could find themselves in trouble. Some schmuck's iPhone is hardly worth a job. Notwithstanding, UPS drivers may take this risk but again, it's not as though they have some free discretion card that they get to waive around.
 
I just posted this in the other thread:

If you check on flightstats.com, it looks like UPS has a whole bunch of flights leaving from Louisville between 2-5 AM today and a few more from 2:30-6:30 PM. The one that makes the most sense to me left at 4:16 AM today, but maybe it's really not going to leave until tomorrow morning.
 
jessica. said:
If there is a signature required and the UPS delivery driver makes a decision to leave it without a pre-sign release or some note on the door (the note never worked for any Apple orders I've ever had delivered), then the driver will be held responsible if something were to happen. The investigation would result in there being no proof of signature or waiver. They don't get to exercise their own discretion. If they choose to do this they're going against policy and could find themselves in trouble. Some schmuck's iPhone is hardly worth a job. Notwithstanding, UPS drivers may take this risk but again, it's not as though they have some free discretion card that they get to waive around.
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Even though I've signed many in the past and it's always worked, I talked to my UPS guy the other day to ask and he said hand-written notes are up to the driver in terms of if one takes it or not. I've done this in every part of Florida that I've lived in because I always work 12 hour shifts and I've never had an issue.
 
Yep mine was stuck in Louisville for nearly 24 hours for what I do not know, but I hope I will get it tomorrow otherwise I will be pissed because Apple doesn't pay for Saturday delivery so the next delivery time is Monday, so working from home just in case :rolleyes:
 
rockyroad55 said:
They fly it to CA. Do you think a huge shipping company would not be able to do that?

They will have it flown overnight and out for delivery by tomorrow morning when the drivers come into work.
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Well, I live in Hawaii, and my iPhone finally made it to Kentucky this morning. According to UPS, it's still on time for delivery by tomorrow night, but until I have it in my hands, I'll still find it a little hard to believe. Of course, you gain hours as you travel west, and with HST being six hours behind EST, they may make it to me OK. Still, it's around 9-10 hours flight time alone to get here from the east coast, not counting sorting time en route.
 
Both of my phones left Louisville today at 1:10 pm - Seems about right - should arrive in Akron this evening, then out for delivery tomorrow!

Not leaving the house until it shows up:D
 
HawaiiMacAddict said:
Well, I live in Hawaii, and my iPhone finally made it to Kentucky this morning. According to UPS, it's still on time for delivery by tomorrow night, but until I have it in my hands, I'll still find it a little hard to believe. Of course, you gain hours as you travel west, and with HST being six hours behind EST, they may make it to me OK. Still, it's around 9-10 hours flight time alone to get here from the east coast, not counting sorting time en route.
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Relax guys, jeez. If you have confirmation saying you'll get it tomorrow, you'll get it tomorrow. UPS isn't some fly-by-night operation. The Louisville Worldport is a pretty incredible operation where most packages only stay there for an average of 15 minutes (ours are obviously being held on purpose). They work around the clock. We'll all soon have our toys.
 
Same here. Origin scan in Louisville at 9:40 this morning. Now just waiting for the departure to SLC baby
 
I still think it's BS that they won't hold these for pickup.

I'm going to be stuck driving to a UPS center to get my phone anyway since I work all day -- the least they could do would be to let me get it in the morning BEFORE work rather than fighting rush-hour traffic after work to pick it up.
 
I live in Indianapolis which is pretty close so it had an arrival scan at 12:57 pm and a Destination scan at 1:38pm. That was 5 minutes ago. Does that mean I'll get it today?
 
kycophpd said:
I work off-duty at the Louisville UPS hub, including working tonight, and it is truly amazing how it all works in there. Planes usually leave out between 2:15 and 5 am at the latest. The west coast planes leave earlier due to flight time but as you west coast people know they gain three hours back during flight.

Like I have said in a few other posts, they have this down to a science. 99.9% of you will be holding your phones tomorrow even though they are sitting 5 miles from me right now.
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HA! When trying to figure out how quickly my package would be getting to me in California, I completely spaced and forgot to account for the time zone change :rolleyes:
 
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