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To clear up the tracking number/waybill number mystery:

The waybill number on the e-mailed invoice (located near the entry date, order date, etc summary just after the detailed summary of the machine) is the tracking number for the batch pallet the machines are on. Most people will notice the destination for this number is not your hometown, but rather a hub near your hometown.

Apple ships several machines at once from Shanghai to the states, where it gets broken down and then shipped off to the appropriate destinations once inside the US. This is a feature of IP Direct Distribution, the method Apple uses to ship via FedEx. Most of the machines will then get upgraded to expedited delivery once they enter the states and get broken down, which is partially the cause for such erroneous estimated delivery times given by FedEx's website.

Class dismissed.
 
stillwater said:
I seem to be one of the few people to order on the thirty-first or the first who hasn't gotten any love from Apple. :(

After all, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and gosh darnit, people like me. ;)
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You are not alone...

we feel the pain together.
 
Tracking Numbers

zarpman said:
To clear up the tracking number/waybill number mystery:

The waybill number on the e-mailed invoice (located near the entry date, order date, etc summary just after the detailed summary of the machine) is the tracking number for the batch pallet the machines are on. Most people will notice the destination for this number is not your hometown, but rather a hub near your hometown.

Apple ships several machines at once from Shanghai to the states, where it gets broken down and then shipped off to the appropriate destinations once inside the US. This is a feature of IP Direct Distribution, the method Apple uses to ship via FedEx. Most of the machines will then get upgraded to expedited delivery once they enter the states and get broken down, which is partially the cause for such erroneous estimated delivery times given by FedEx's website.

Class dismissed.
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Then maybe the reason some of our orders have been stuck in 'Left Sorting Facility in Subic Bay' status is because that's where the bulk shipment was broken up and went its different ways. I'll take my 2 gig memory to work tomorrow just in case. :cool:
 
i just noticed that the mac ads i usually get are missing on this thread and have in fact been replaced by courier ads... goes to show google really does work ;-)
 
The tracking says my computer is still in transit from the PH. *sigh* The estimated time of delivery keeps changing on me. First it was Oct. 11 by 10:30am, then yesterday it was Oct. 11 by 6pm, and now it says Oct. 11 by 8pm! Ack! :(
 
I don't know what is worse, waiting for my iMac to get here or waiting through another hurricane. This one seems to have much stronger winds than Frances.
 
AndiePandie said:
The tracking says my computer is still in transit from the PH. *sigh* The estimated time of delivery keeps changing on me. First it was Oct. 11 by 10:30am, then yesterday it was Oct. 11 by 6pm, and now it says Oct. 11 by 8pm! Ack! :(
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Now it's back to Oct. 11 by 10:30am. Not that I'm complaining but I don't understand why it keeps changing like that.
 
melchior said:
i just noticed that the mac ads i usually get are missing on this thread and have in fact been replaced by courier ads... goes to show google really does work ;-)
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Ha! You're right! I hadn't noticed that, but somehow find it really funny. Let's hear it for Google.

On topic, my iMac appears to be having a grand time in Shanghai, as it's been sitting there for two days now. I just hope the dock workers change the language back to US English when they're done!
 
melchior said:
i just noticed that the mac ads i usually get are missing on this thread and have in fact been replaced by courier ads... goes to show google really does work ;-)
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When I login the ads are trying to find me my Soul Mate...
Is my computer trying to set me up?
Maybe I just need to get out more and spend less time with my Mac!
 
Just called Apple Store - Shipping in 12 hours

Finally fed up, I had to call the Apple Store. I noticed that configurations very similar to mine, ordered after mine, had already shipped.

I didn't expect Apple to have any more information than I saw on the website, but they told me my order would be shipping in 12 to 24 hours.

Again, I have 20" / 1GB / 250GB / BT / wireless k&m.

I'm feeling a bit of relief, finally.
 
Why so far away?

I got an email saying my iMac had shipped on Friday Sept 24..... and it says it's not expected to arrive until October 13. Why so long? Isn't FEDEX supposed to be able to get anything anywhere in a matter of a few days? It's almost more frustrating knowing it's shipped and won't get here for 3 weeks, than when it was just sitting in a warehouse in Shanghai. :confused:
 
Waybill to China

So for those of us waiting in Shanghai, who has this waybill number?

671002551636

Just curious since we were specualting that ours were being shipped together yesterday.

I thought it was interesting that FedEx is sending it to Indy and not Memphis since I live in New Orleans.
 
meridotz said:
I got an email saying my iMac had shipped on Friday Sept 24..... and it says it's not expected to arrive until October 13. Why so long? Isn't FEDEX supposed to be able to get anything anywhere in a matter of a few days? It's almost more frustrating knowing it's shipped and won't get here for 3 weeks, than when it was just sitting in a warehouse in Shanghai. :confused:
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Have you checked FedEX's tracking page ? Are they saying that you will have to wait for 3 weeks ? That would be some amazingly bad service, since they are able to ship in 3 days... :eek:
 
toti said:
Have you checked FedEX's tracking page ? Are they saying that you will have to wait for 3 weeks ? That would be some amazingly bad service, since they are able to ship in 3 days... :eek:
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Yup, right on the FEDEX tracking page it says "Estimatede delivery date October 13, 2004". So frustrating!
 
Perhaps all the planes are full, and theyr'e shipping it by mule ? :confused:

I'd wait until tomorrow when the FedEX paperpushers are in, check then, and if nothing has changed by then, call them and give them a nice piece of your mind :cool: :D
 
meridotz said:
Yup, right on the FEDEX tracking page it says "Estimatede delivery date October 13, 2004". So frustrating!
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ditto mine shipped saturday and said the same thing... :( thats almost ten days later then apple said it would be delivered (the 5th)
 
MacinDoc said:
Was that the date Apple said it would be shipped, or the date Apple said it would be delivered?
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hmm i dont know... but i would feel really stupid if it was when it was supposed to be shipped... ah well your probably right, anyway its still in shanghai so ill just have to wait like everyone else :)
 
toti said:
Perhaps all the planes are full, and theyr'e shipping it by mule ? :confused:

I'd wait until tomorrow when the FedEX paperpushers are in, check then, and if nothing has changed by then, call them and give them a nice piece of your mind :cool: :D
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I intend to, right after I get my $30 expedited shipping credit from Apple.
 
Folks, before you have an aneurism about the estimated shipping date please read back about a page or so for an explanation of how shipping works.

You'll probably see it wednesday or thursday this week.
 
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