Update 10/19/2012 - Received email that it shipped via UPS on 10/18 and the phone will arrive on Monday 10/22! PISSED! Nice 24 hour service huh?
For anyone else reading this, I went to the apple store and they told me that you can go to apple.com between 10pm and 4am every day and try to find the model iphone that you want and choose pick up in store option. The thing that pisses me off about this is that this means there are PLENTY of phones to go around, and they aren't fulfilling the pre-orders on a first come, first serve basis. I have a friend at work that got her phone 3 weeks ago by doing the 10pm to 4am trick.