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If you're not home for UPS on Friday, does that mean you have to wait 'til Monday?
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It probably depends on where you pre-ordered from. I pre-ordered from the Apple store and so they have a 'pre-sign' option that prints out a form giving UPS permission to leave it without my signing for it and I have to sign the form and leave it on my door. If you ordered from somewhere else, you can try just leaving a note giving them permission and signing that.
Oh, never knew you could do that. But I don't want them to just leave it on my door step unprotected. That's a disaster waiting to happen.
Does UPS deliver on Saturday? Do they have a warehouse open where I could potentially go pick it up on Saturday?
You can ask them to leave it somewhere else like your back door if that's an option. I'm not sure if they're doing Saturday delivery. You may also be able to use your tracking number and go on the UPS website and ask them to hold it at the local distribution center for you to pick up.
Leave the note...or make sure you will be home. I just took my day off for the month..Can't think of a better reason to take a random friday off..
UPS will absolutely NOT leave a package that is marked Signature Required without an actual person signing for it, signed release form or not. The Apple forms only work for FedEx, not UPS. Someone has to be there.
keep thinking that... my 4 came ups i heard the truck pulling up so i was at the door he gave me the package and didnt ask me to sign anything
With my iPhone 4, UPS not only left my phone on the doorstep w/o a signature, it was on the WRONG DOORSTEP down the block.
Nothing against UPS, but in my area they are not very good. I am so happy that AT&T uses FedEx in my town. Each year mine gets here before 10am, and the last two years including this time, the phone was one day early. It's nice to get that out of the way.
The apple form I printed out specifically says UPS release form and specifically states that if you sign this release and leave it on your door the UPS man will leave your package at a place of your choosing (front, back, neighbor).
My girlfriend uses this same slip for UPS frequently and says it never fails.
It could be a geography thing but if you have the option to print it and it specifically says UPS I am fairly certain they will leave it.
Just call into your local UPS or FedEx hub and tell them to hold your package there. Then just drive there and pick it up after work.
I know, but I tried on something coming from Apple before and UPS wouldn't leave it. I called UPS and they said they never release on a door tag. Lucky me, my local UPS branch must be nazi's about Signature Required.
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I called today and asked about this. UPS will try 3 deliver attempts throughout the day, after the third they will take my phone back to the hub. I'll get home around 3pm, and she said that the third attempt would be after that. So, looks like there is no way I'll miss it.
I called today and asked about this. UPS will try 3 deliver attempts throughout the day, after the third they will take my phone back to the hub. I'll get home around 3pm, and she said that the third attempt would be after that. So, looks like there is no way I'll miss it.
It's 3 attempts for 3 days, not 3 attempts in a day. The phone goes back to the hub at the end of every attempt. After the 3rd attempt, it goes back to the sender.
Actually the UPS system has updated status for Red deliveries that say Friday, 10/14/2011, by 3:00 P.M.(by end of day for residential deliveries)
Dave
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Not what I was told, but I think that sounds right. Either way, I got someone to wait for me.
rockyroad55 said:
Not what I was told, but I think that sounds right. Either way, I got someone to wait for me.
Almost correct! The sender (Apple or AT&T) is able to request that a package be held at the depot, however you as the receiver can't until after the first delivery attempt.
Note: Prior to the first delivery attempt, contact the sender to request a change in delivery instructions or to correct your delivery address. Don't expect Apple or AT&T to make this request.
Dave
Note: Prior to the first delivery attempt, contact the sender to request a change in delivery instructions or to correct your delivery address. Don't expect Apple or AT&T to make this request.
Dave
This. Although I'm technically "working from home".
And knowing my UPS guy's totally random schedule it'll be delivered long after I would be home from work anyway. But if he does deliver early, say before noon, I'll take the opportunity to meet up w/ my lady for lunch and deliver her new phone too.
Both of our phones are sitting just a couple hours away now. Hopefully they are delivered in the AM.