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iPhone 3G S Shipments to Arrive Early, Video of iPhone 3G S

tobyringle said:
I feel bad for all of you when you realize your iPhones are not arriving early. I think Apple is pretty gifted when it comes to marketing. When Leopard was available for pre-order....they all arrived the day they became available in the store. For your sake, I hope you get it early. But don't hold your breath.
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Uh no, some arrive one day early.
 
twoodcc said:
didn't apple do this last year with the iphone 3g? if not, i know they've done it with some products in the past. glad to see this though
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Do what? The iPhone 3G launched solely from brick & mortar stores, both Apple's and AT&T. There were no pre-orders or shipments of any kind for that launch.
 
Nocaster said:
The packages will be cleared through customs as if it's one big shipment, at one time, on one set of customs docs.
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You Sure? I think they are cleared by plane. There's no way their going to hold planes on the runway at Customs till they all get there. Plane lands, gets cleared, takes off.
 
AtlasBoy said:
Bingo. We have a winner.
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That's correct having family that works for UPS the package should and knowing apple will have a label saying do not deliver prior to june 19th 2009 say it will be in the destination city by tomorrow or thursday but there aren't high hopes of it getting delivered before friday. UPS could risk getting slapped with a huge lawsuit from apple and risk losing any future business from them that would be a huge huge lost to their pockets. Highly doubt we will see any iphones before friday although i hope myself i could get mine early. I order monday morning from apple and mine now says prepared for shipping :apple:
 
Upcoming UPS departures from Anchorage

FYI - packages currently in Alaska will be leaving on one of the following:

5X 71 Anchorage 3:41 PM Louisville 1:32 AM Scheduled
5X 65 Anchorage 4:13 PM Ontario 9:51 PM Scheduled
5X 81 Anchorage 4:28 PM Louisville 2:19 AM Scheduled

I'm doubting any of these are made - even though updates on the UPS website are delayed a little, our phones would have to be taking off anywhere from 20 minutes ago to 20 minutes from now.

Also - this also confirms that I cannot get mine before the previously posted date of Thursday.

R
 
hbenitez09 said:
That's correct having family that works for UPS the package should and knowing apple will have a label saying do not deliver prior to june 19th 2009 say it will be in the destination city by tomorrow or thursday but there aren't high hopes of it getting delivered before friday. UPS could risk getting slapped with a huge lawsuit from apple and risk losing any future business from them that would be a huge huge lost to their pockets. Highly doubt we will see any iphones before friday although i hope myself i could get mine early. I order monday morning from apple and mine now says prepared for shipping :apple:
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In addition, people gave shipping addresses based on where they would be on Friday. UPS could run themselves to death trying to deliver early and finding no one home. Can you say multiple delivery attempts per phone. That would be costly for UPS. They will be busy enough on Thursday delivering to Apple and ATT stores.
 
zacheryjensen said:
As for the loss of scheduled delivery time, it occurs to me that UPS would not be able to make any estimates during the times where the delivery process is not under their control, such as during the stages where clearing customs occurs.
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Keep in mind that UPS and Fedex deal with Customs daily. They just back into the schedule based on the delivery date.

Apple told UPS that delivery was on 6/19.
UPS tells Customs they need them cleared and in the US by x date.
Customs tells UPS to have them in Customs by x date.
UPS tells Apple they need to pick them up in China by x date.

It happens like that every day. They have known for weeks that this was coming, so all that was worked out. Customs will happen very quickly.
 
gehrbox said:
Could it be that those that ordered early are seeing later order processing because theirs will be shipping from stateside warehouses with shorter ship times and no customs involvement?

While those that ordered later are getting early ship dates because the US supplies were exhausted by the early buyers, so the later phones are coming straight from China?
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I think it's safe to assume that Apple has a supply at their distribution centers in the US and can fill orders through their standard process. At some point, it will be impossible to get phones here from China for the 19th, but Apple could still ship from the US and make it.
 
For those of you waiting on more then one iphone how did you guys order i thought i read somewhere they were limiting orders to one per name or household or something along those lines
 
For all of you who have shipments already in Anchorage, I would be curious to know when they depart. I'm guessing they will only be there a few hours. If you don't mind, please post back with arrival / departure from Alaska.
 
AtlasBoy said:
You Sure? I think they are cleared by plane. There's no way their going to hold planes on the runway at Customs till they all get there. Plane lands, gets cleared, takes off.
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They are cleared by shipment, not by plane.

And this does not happen on the runway - lol
 
How come no one is talking about how fast the phones look... wow... going in and out of programs is super quick...
 
Interesting...looked at the status again and it has gone from having a delivery date of tomorrow to not having one at all (it's in Anchorage though).

So maybe UPS caught the fact that they aren't supposed to be delivered until Friday and is backpedalling...
 
jimbonator said:
I see most of you ordered online, so I figured I'd add my info.

I ordered mine Tuesday the 9th in the evening at a AT&T store.

Yesterday evening sometime it went from In Progress to Shipped.

Although there is a UPS tracking number, it's yet to show up in UPS's tracking system.

This is being shipped to the store and not to me, so I'm not sure what that means. :) I guess it will be there on the 19th.
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bothanspy said:
I'm in the same boat as you. Ordered 2 on the 9th. One marked shipped on the 12th and the other on the 15th. Hope both are there on Friday and ATT doesn't pull any backorder nonsense on me. I plan on doing nothing but playing with my first Iphone on Friday night after a long day at work.
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Sweeettt....my status changed this evening. On UPS, Billing Information has been received! Woo Hoo! lol
It's now says to be shipped/billed on the 17th using Next Day Air Saver.
So I guess mine will be at the store on the 18th or definitely on the 19th.
Looks like I'll be out bright and early on Friday :).
And after looking at it, the status just changed 8 minutes ago! I guess I checked at the right time.
I'm sure yours probably have just changed too bothanspy. :)
 
quick question guys about pre orders and all i already pre ordered mine but was thinking about also getting one for my gf i dont know if she is under contract still but i think she is actually nearing the end of it. I was wondering say i order her one under my name could she then activate it under her account with her current att phone number or will the iphones be already under contract with a phone number when they arrive here friday. I remember for the 2g iphone we had to connect to itunes severs to activate as well as the 3g iphone they connected to them but instore now that they are shipping straight to your home how does it work?
 
hbenitez09 said:
quick question guys about pre orders and all i already pre ordered mine but was thinking about also getting one for my gf i dont know if she is under contract still but i think she is actually nearing the end of it. I was wondering say i order her one under my name could she then activate it under her account with her current att phone number or will the iphones be already under contract with a phone number when they arrive here friday. I remember for the 2g iphone we had to connect to itunes severs to activate as well as the 3g iphone they connected to them but instore now that they are shipping straight to your home how does it work?
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you will activate it at home. you cannot order 2 phones with one number. if 18 months have gone by on her contract, she can buy an iphone 3g s. have her dial *NEW# and see if she is eligible for an upgrade.
 
They deleted the delivery date on the tracking page. Looks like this won't be happening tomorrow.
 
i guess the whole enough about shipping times didnt work...where are the sample pics and video from a wild iphone
 
Package Progress
Location Date Local Time Description
ANCHORAGE,
AK, US 06/16/2009 1:48 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
CHEK LAP KOK,
HK 06/16/2009 11:14 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
06/16/2009 7:49 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
SHENZHEN,
CN 06/15/2009 10:33 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
CN 06/16/2009 1:15 A.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED


:p
 
ataboc said:
Package Progress
Location Date Local Time Description
ANCHORAGE,
AK, US 06/16/2009 1:48 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
CHEK LAP KOK,
HK 06/16/2009 11:14 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
06/16/2009 7:49 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
SHENZHEN,
CN 06/15/2009 10:33 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
CN 06/16/2009 1:15 A.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED


:p
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Our iphones are on the same shipment. I am from NYC.
 
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