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iPhone SE (2016) iPhone SE 2020 Pre-Order Thread

As of 9am ET shipped, arrives tomorrow!
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lkalliance said:
Aaaaaaaaaaand we’re in Louisville with everyone else destined for the US! Slowly but surely getting closer to Wisconsin! Which is close to my home state!
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Not slowly, not really, they will go air from Louisville today or tonight in time to be loaded in local delivery trucks tomorrow morning.
 
lkalliance said:
Now instead of looking at a map I look at a clock:

*wake up at 6:15*

“Hmmmm...says here it was scanned in Louisville, Kentucky at 12:21 this morning, I wonder when it will leave there?”

*check at 8*
*check at 9*
*check at 9:45*
*check at 10:15*
etc.
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UPS and FedEx do almost all of their flying during the night. It's pretty much guaranteed that the phones will remain in Louisville until the Thursday night flights take off, although the departure scan from the sorting center will occur earlier.
 
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I pre-ordered mine via AT&T Premier (business) and just got an email stating it's shipping via FedEx. Scheduled to arrive tomorrow (the 24th). Coming from Irving, TX and heading to Arkansas.
 
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Bob Coxner said:
UPS and FedEx do almost all of their flying during the night. It's pretty much guaranteed that the phones will remain in Louisville until the Thursday night flights take off, although the departure scan from the sorting center will occur earlier.
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My info says it left KY at 1200 this morning.
 
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Arcade24 said:
Just checked mine again and you're right, it says no contact delivery, not no signature.
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You are right, this is the guidance on UPS website for signature required packages (not sure if it applies here):

In the interest of employee and customer safety, UPS’s Signature Required guidelines are temporarily being adjusted such that consignees will no longer need to sign for UPS Signature Required deliveries. Despite this adjusted process the driver will still need to make contact with the consignee. The consignee must, at the time of delivery, acknowledge that UPS is making a delivery and, if applicable, show government issued photo ID.
 
Bob Coxner said:
UPS and FedEx do almost all of their flying during the night. It's pretty much guaranteed that the phones will remain in Louisville until the Thursday night flights take off, although the departure scan from the sorting center will occur earlier.
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Exactly. They are usually next day air packages, so a lot happens between tonight and the time it is delivered tomorrow. With that said, people should not be surprised with delays because of everything going on.
 
HobbesInVA said:
My phone has been in Louisville for almost 36 hours. Did your tracking stated where it cleared customs?
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This is weird. Yesterday I saw an arrival scan in KY. This morning around 7 EST I saw a departure scan FROM there at 12 am. Now that departure scan is showing as an arrival scan. I saw that it arrived during the day yesterday and posted that above in this thread. How could it now just arrive this morning? Obviously a glitch somewhere.

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Edd70 said:
This is weird. Yesterday I saw an arrival scan in KY. This morning around 7 EST I saw a departure scan FROM there at 12 am. Now that departure scan is showing as an arrival scan. I saw that it arrived during the day yesterday and posted that above in this thread. How could it now just arrive this morning? Obviously a glitch somewhere.

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It could be a glitch or it could be the container your phone was shipped in. Last fall when I was tracking my phone shipment, it went from China to Alaska back to China and then back to Alaska. When I call UPS about this, they said the movement was based on the container and not the actual phone. The actual shipment tracking for the phone doesn’t start until it clears customs or something like that.
 
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pierino84 said:
As soon as the item is collected by DHL, tracking page on DHL will reflect the expected delivery date. They usually collect items at 5-6PM.
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Item started moving in the DHL network: it was collected at 4:28PM. A second SE I ordered is still awaiting pickup, but it should be delivered tomorrow as well. Guess thay are now loading up the trucks to spread shipments all over Italy.
 
Got an email that the phone was shipped today... but UPS tracking reveals that the shipping actually started a while ago; deliver tomorrow:

In Transit 04/23/2020 10:59 A.M. Louisville, KY, United States > what I see today (I checked yesterday too)
Past Event Shipped 04/19/2020 8:00 P.M. Kunshan, China
Past Event Label Created 04/21/2020 2:12 A.M. China
 
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Tracking shows "Import Scan" in Louisville as of 12:03PM 4/23 (I'm assuming local time to Louisville, as it's only past 11am here in IL)
 
JakubWrobel said:
Tracking shows "Import Scan" in Louisville as of 12:03PM 4/23 (I'm assuming local time to Louisville, as it's only past 11am here in IL)
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I just noticed exactly the same thing. "Import Scan" in Louisville at 11:58 am. I note the same thing on the time zones, it's not yet that time here in Minnesota.
 
I'm in the U.S. Midwest... Finally got shipped notification emails from Apple for my 64gb black and 64gb white! Yay!

FYI...I ordered about 5 minutes after preorder started.
 
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DHL tracking shows it originated in Netherlands and is now in Brussels. If it goes the same route as my case earlier this week, it will be in Copenhagen very early tomorrow morning and delivered in Helsinki early afternoon. Very efficient service.
 
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I got an email saying my phone has been delayed. The status in the UPS app says this:

Your package has been delayed due to events beyond our control. We're adjusting delivery plans as quickly as possible.​

But the tracking also said my phone left Louisville, KY at 3:49 pm today.
What are the chances I get the phone tomorrow?
 
Jro29 said:
I got an email saying my phone has been delayed. The status in the UPS app says this:

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Your package has been delayed due to events beyond our control. We're adjusting delivery plans as quickly as possible.​


But the tracking also said my phone left Louisville, KY at 3:49 pm today.
What are the chances I get the phone tomorrow?
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Just saw the same on the UPS app that my phone left Louisville today a few minutes after yours; I have not yet gotten the email you have though. Louisville is about 750 miles from my area as the car drives.
 
No such email here, but the ups website has always displayed the delivery date as tentative. Also, since I live in the Chicago area, phone is still in Louisville so I’m still at ease that I’ll have my phone delivered tomorrow.

EDIT: Phone departed KY about a half hour ago😁
 
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JakubWrobel said:
No such email here, but the ups website has always displayed the delivery date as tentative. Also, since I live in the Chicago area, phone is still in Louisville so I’m still at ease that I’ll have my phone delivered tomorrow.

EDIT: Phone departed KY about a half hour ago😁
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Though I had "Tentative" listed briefly on the UPS app, now I no longer have it. Just "In Transit." I wonder if it left Louisville if it was by truck or by plane. If by plane, then I expect to hear in not too long a time that it was scanned in my metro area. If by truck, well...it would get here in the wee hours if it was driven directly. Fingers crossed!
 
JSRinUK said:
Mine seems to be going the long way around.

It started out 120 miles away from me. Now it's just gone 200 miles north, so now it's 300 miles away from me.

I hope it enjoys the scenery.
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That's just the seemingly crazy business model for UPS and FedEx. You ship a package from NYC to Philadelphia and you assume that's the short route it will take. However, it actually makes more business sense for the package to go from NYC to Kentucky, be sorted and then shipped to Philly. If you send *all* packages to the central sorting center (Kentucky or wherever) it's cheaper than having to sort out single packages that are going a short distance. It means you only need 1 sorting center rather than one in every town.

It's often similar with the USPS. There is no USPS sorting center in my town. If I mail a letter to my next door neighbor it has to go 100 miles north, be sorted, and then sent back 100 miles to my neighbor.
 
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