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Carrier iPhone 7/7+ Sprint Pre-Order Thread
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I didn't get this information directly from the inventory system, just a DM notifying me that their district warehouse took in 22,000 7 Plus
For reference, I received my confirmation email at 2:59 a.m. (the presale actually went live early if you pretended to be a new customer, then logged in) and my number starts 803427XXX.
Buy one outright on launch day while I wait on mine to eventually arrive...hmmm...
It sounds good but not necessarily how that work. The iPhones wouldn't sit in Louisville for a day. iPhones are considered high values in the ups system. So they wouldn't sit in the Louisville hub because they don't want any theft of the iPhones and every year they have a release, people always try to steal them. As I stated earlier, it's a slim chance they will come in tomorrow but have a higher chance of come in Thursday so they'll be available for Friday. Once the shipment hits they try to get them out as fast as possible so it's no downtime and no opportunity for theft. Off the plane and loaded into air cans. Cans are loaded into the correct planes and off to airport of your local hub.
That's... pretty much what I said. Except for the fact that they are currently being gathered at Worldport, and there are many, many more yet to come. There are 6 aircraft in the air, right now, carrying a couple hundred thousand phones each. And massive logistics companies like UPS have the whole security thing pretty well figured out. You kind of need to when you ship pretty much everything. So theft isn't really of immediate concern for them. Keeping things organized and staged for their final delivery is a major concern.
If you'd like to see how Worldport operates- in the international airport that also houses a military base and has its own, very dedicated police force- Google it.
Do you work at Worldport?
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Because if you did work there, you'd know that attempted thefts go so awry that they're caught and the story even makes it to the local news stations. At the major hubs, security is incredibly tight. Theft from unsecured locations is more common. But not from someplace like Worldport. Or FedEx Superhub. Or DHL's hub at CVG.
Whoa. 803449XXX So your order number is low so did you get in at midnight or when the servers came back around 1:20A?
My orders show nothing yet.
803451XXX - 1:25A Jet Black 7+ 128GB 10/7
803452XXX - 1:29A Rose Gold 7+ 128GB 9/30
Don't work at worldport but I've been there on training. Worked at the airport for a couple years and I'm currently working in the preload sort been with the company almost 11yrs. Now I'm not debating what you're saying. You hit on some of the things but security always have issues. We'll start seeing a heavy security presence Thursday for sure.
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There's no debate on security there, but that don't mean people don't try it. So do you work at worldport? Because when they do get you on theft, well let say they catch you, you get two options jail or resigned. Story, I'm in management, this one supervisor that worked at the airport was stealing iPads, iPods when they were a thing, and iPhones. Was turn around and reselling them. He left to go back to the hub, did the same thing, and then transferred to another hub doing the exact same thing. Security finally put two and two together and I think the guy is in jail for 15years
It has been my experience that even one missing piece from such a high dollar account like this is too much a margin of loss. They've been very quick at detecting the problem and then working back to the source. Last year, a woman tried to take 4 phones and over the course of about 6 months this year, some guy stole maybe 17 phones... but they were both caught. And they were caught because the missing devices were immediately flagged and the hunt was on. I know it happens on outside locations... especially on or from trucks. Which is really bad, because if someone yanks a few boxes from the truck while the driver is dropping a package off at someone's door, it is so difficult to find out who did it
What time zone are you talking?
Mine is 803427..., but it was 2:59 a.m. EST (11:59 p.m. PST).
And I haven't heard anything, and I've tried tracking by reference, calling Sprint, etc.
256GB Jet Black Plus
So the orders are held in the store and matched to whatever arrives Thursday evening? I wasn't sure if the orders were computer sent off to the warehouse/distribution center and attached to phones there, first come, and shipped to the store with names on them. Guess only a couple days to find out. And I'm guessing people ordering online at night would ask for shipping directly to them not for store pick up. I was the first order in store.
If I don't get it Friday, I'll kind of wish I had wait in line Friday morning, I'm not expecting Sprint store crowds to be too bad.
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But let's remain optimistic, there's still a pretty good chance we'll get our phone on launch.
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Completely agree, had I known there's a possibility that we wouldn't receive our phones until the end of the month, I would have tested my chances of getting the IPhone 7p at one of the many Sprint/Best Buy/Target retailers in my area.
But let's remain optimistic, there's still a pretty good chance we'll get our phone on launch.