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iPhone 7/7+ - UK Orders & Dispatches Thread

Had a deeper look and it appears that UPS flights are going from Shanghai and Shenzhen to Anchorage, and then onto Louisville and after that to Philadelphia and then to the U.K.

If this is the case no wonder people have to wait for them.
 
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kjm18 said:
Had a deeper look and it appears that UPS flights are going from Shanghai and Shenzhen to Anchorage, and then onto Louisville and after that to Philadelphia and then to the U.K.

If this is the case no wonder people have to wait for them.
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Nice digging 😀
 
Never changed anything but my 7+ Black order has changed from 27-29th to 20-22nd. Seems like all these orders will get changed during the course of the day.
 
kjm18 said:
Had a deeper look and it appears that UPS flights are going from Shanghai and Shenzhen to Anchorage, and then onto Louisville and after that to Philadelphia and then to the U.K.

If this is the case no wonder people have to wait for them.
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iPhones actually leave from Zhengzhou airport in China, and usually not by UPS - they use charter planes from other logistic companies (usually someone like Kalitta Air for flights to the US, i'm not sure about Europe)

All Europe stock will fly to somewhere in Europe, probably not direct to the UK. Then shipped via regional operators (DHL, UPS, etc) from Europe to the UK.
 
kjm18 said:
Had a look on flight stats and the only UPS flights that are coming to the U.K. are coming from Philadelphia, the China flights are heading for Anchorage. Unless they are coming through a different airline.
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UPS never fly direct from China to the UK, all my phones direct from China stopped along the way, a couple in Anchorage, a big logistical hub for UPS. And in my experience the phones I've had come direct form China have been the ones that arrived just after launch. I find it interesting to watch the journey all the way from China! 😀
 
kjm18 said:
Had a deeper look and it appears that UPS flights are going from Shanghai and Shenzhen to Anchorage, and then onto Louisville and after that to Philadelphia and then to the U.K.

If this is the case no wonder people have to wait for them.
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Any UK phones coming from China will arrive at Cologne first and then get shipped to East Midlands/Stansted.
 
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RazorD said:
iPhones actually leave from Zhengzhou airport in China, and usually not by UPS - they use charter planes from other logistic companies (usually someone like Kalitta Air for flights to the US, i'm not sure about Europe)

All Europe stock will fly to somewhere in Europe, probably not direct to the UK. Then shipped via regional operators (DHL, UPS, etc) from Europe to the UK.
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I miss tracking planes. I remember how exciting it was for my 5s!
 
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Just found out that changing the delivery address can indeed change the dates for the worst. I'm on 20-22 delivery but changing to central London will push it up to 10-12 October.. so I'll take my chances!
 
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I ask again, anyone who's reserved the iPhone 7 for pickup had any notification or email yet? Mine's still on "Processing Items".

I'd guess we'll either get a notification later tonight or early tomorrow morning.
 
WojWojski said:
I miss tracking planes. I remember how exciting it was for my 5s!
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Haha. Oh man tell me about it. Remember the days we'd get a tracking link from Kuehne + Nagel and have to try and track it around the world?

All these last 10 years have done is make me know way too much about logistics, and trust literally no one who works in customer services when it comes to anything related to an Apple product at launch day.
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SMIDG3T said:
I ask again, anyone who's reserved for pickup had any notification or email yet? Mine's still on "Processing Items".

I'd guess we'll either get a notification later tonight or early tomorrow morning.
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I ordered an iPhone case for pickup today yesterday. I got the "ready for pickup" email this morning at 7:30 after payment was taken last night. (It has a QR code Apple need to scan in store)
 
I haven't been fully keeping track on the thread, but my impression is that most of the Apple-direct preorders posted here that have moved up from 27-29 Sept to 20-22 Sept were either Black or Jet Black, and mostly Plus phones?

We'll likely never know if it was high demand or low supply. I expect that when the un/official figures eventually filter out there'll have been a far bigger ratio of Plus vs Standard orders for the 7 than previously, relative to the 6 & 6S, which you'd expect as people get used to the idea & the dual-cameras may have accelerated this.
 
Ooh! Now Sep 20-22! First time I've looked for a couple of days, bravo. Prompted to me to visit here and, hey hey, others are same 🙂

7+, 256gb black
 
All of you getting dates moved forward are probably getting the devices that Apple aren't shipping to carriers like O2 and EE. We are getting fed all sorts of horse **** about when phones will turn up.
 
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SMIDG3T said:
I ask again, anyone who's reserved for pickup had any notification or email yet? Mine's still on "Processing Items".

I'd guess we'll either get a notification later tonight or early tomorrow morning.
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Mine is same, still processing. pick slot 09:00 - 09:15am
 
privateryanuk said:
From Philly though... surely if any iPhones were coming in to stock up Apple UK they'd be inbound from China?
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UPS packages stop off at sort facilities all over the place, don't forget our pallet full of iPhones might be sharing a plane with regular packages
kjm18 said:
Had a deeper look and it appears that UPS flights are going from Shanghai and Shenzhen to Anchorage, and then onto Louisville and after that to Philadelphia and then to the U.K.

If this is the case no wonder people have to wait for them.
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It's still amazing to me how UPS works, logistics today is just amazing
WojWojski said:
I miss tracking planes. I remember how exciting it was for my 5s!
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Yea, Apple don't seem to do it for UK people anymore, I think the 6 may have been the last time for me.
 
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Checked my order, was still saying 27th-29th. Read a few posts on here, checked again, updated to 20th-22nd.

128GB 7+ Black. Ordered at 8:07.
 
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