Pretty sure my iPhone is on this flight as well....it has been stuck in Alaska too according to my tracking. I think it just wanted to stop and take a look at Russia from Sarah Palin's house.
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iPhone Stuck in Alaska since 1:50 PM Yesterday?
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I am in the same boat, mines been in Alaska since 150 yesterday. But, I do believe even on the east coast that they have plunty of time to get it to a local area truck and to my door tomorrow. Specially since I live 5 minutes from the Airport where a UPS hub sits
I am in the same boat, mines been in Alaska since 150 yesterday. But, I do believe even on the east coast that they have plunty of time to get it to a local area truck and to my door tomorrow. Specially since I live 5 minutes from the Airport where a UPS hub sits
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I ordered just a few minutes after the keynote, and my tracking has been stuck on Alaska at 1:50 yesterday since, well, yesterday. I hope I get it tomorrow. I'm going to be irritated if I don't.
Just curious, how did you know which flight it was?
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I've seen this tool used before and this specific flight was noted multiple times in the "mega mega delivery" thread. Knowing that it's this particular flight is really just based on the few that follow this flight path and connecting it to when others have seen their updated tracking times. This flight came in from HK to AK and now to KY.
There is a flight from PANC to KONT, UPS61, in the air now. I thought all the packages had to go through Louisville, but I guess not. Hard to believe it would take 24 hrs to transfer from the CN flight, but we're just doing a lot of guessing based on tracking vs flights/times.
Could be west coast iPhones are on their way to Ontario?
Could be west coast iPhones are on their way to Ontario?
I'm an Industrial Engineer for UPS, and hopefully I can provide a little color for some of you waiting on iPhone shipments due tomorrow. The Apple Shenzhen distribution is a very tightly controlled movement that has different flow depending on the final delivery point, and UPS is obligated to throttle each shipment to ensure they are not injected into the network prematurely. I can assure you that wherever your shipment is located right now, it is either at the hub it will be sorted through tonight, or is about to fly to that hub within the next 3 hours. For most of you in the midwest and east coast, you will most likely see your shipment move through the Louisville WorldPort hub between the hours of 11 PM and 3 AM tonight, many flying in from Anchorage which is the jump-off point to/from China for many cargo airlines. They will be automatically sorted to your city's flight along with all other Next Day Air shipments. All U.S. domestic flights leave in a tightly choreographed schedule to arrive in your destination city by 6:30 AM. If the service level is NDA, you can expect your usual UPS driver to deliver by 10:30 or 12:00 depending on where you live, or by end of day(usually before 6:30) if the service is NDA Saver. Hope this helps clarify a little of what you all are seeing...
Thanks for the info. I didn't really think UPS was lagging in updating so many tracking reports - they're usually very responsive to real time updates.
Still having loads of fun trying to track my iPhone, though. Now, back to the last few hours on my 1st gen running 3.0. I still have a few of those "100 improvements and features" to check out before the "real" 3.0 phone shows up.
Thanks for that. I saw your post in the larger thread also. One question you might be able to help me with, but I realize it would be your best guess. I'm in Alexandria, KY. Apple had it correct on the order and when UPS provided updates tracking updates in China and also at the Hong Kong stop it still listed Alexandria, KY. However, at the point where it updated in the US at Anchorage, AK, the City name stayed correct (Alexandria) but the state changed to the wrong state (Ohio). I called this AM and I think the person I talked to was fairly disinterested and sort of blew this off as an issue. She said the zip code was still listed correctly as 41001 (correct for where I live in KY) but also said that if it happened to go to OH they would have to see the delivery attempt fail at least once before they could change anything. So, what do you think the chances are that it will be delivered correctly based on a correct zip code but an incorrect state listed?
Thanks for all that info guys.
So the plane lands about 1 AM. I can see that shipment then moving to New Orleans very quickly.
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So the plane lands about 1 AM. I can see that shipment then moving to New Orleans very quickly.
This made my day
Zip code is by far the most important piece of information on the label. That will get it to your local delivery center, and beyond that all that matters is the street name and number. Other than that, our systems frankly don't care...rest assured!
If our phones are headed to Louisville as you say they are then how is mine going to land in my hands on time in NYC by tomorrow?
I'd assume Apple is losing a lot of money on shipping these things out. There's no doubt that if these phones get on a plane from Louisville headed for NYC, it'll be there before you wake up tomorrow. It looks like UPS has everything under control.
I wouldn't worry.
Great info Kadman, thanks. Just curious, how did you get the flight number for a UPS flight? Would be cool to know for future gadgets I can't wait for!!
It would be harder to do, but still possible for your typical domestic shipments as there are many more flights to wade through. It's easier in this scenario because you have the same flight going from HK, to AK, to KY. Narrows it down to a handful of flights a week.