Actually, my Apple email says "Delivers by June 24th." My actual FedEx tracking page says "delivers June 23rd by 10:30AM" Granted, I've been through this before, I don't expect my phone until Thursday. But it seems a LOT of FedEx numbers are indeed currently showing the 23rd.
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Actually, my Apple email says "Delivers by June 24th." My actual FedEx tracking page says "delivers June 23rd by 10:30AM" Granted, I've been through this before, I don't expect my phone until Thursday. But it seems a LOT of FedEx numbers are indeed currently showing the 23rd.
Darn Newbies..... jk Mark...
Dear Apple Store Customer,
You recently received a Shipment Notification email from Apple advising you that your iPhone has shipped.
This email is to confirm that your delivery will occur on June 23rd. Although Apple and FedEx tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the FedEx website the morning of the June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep.
In the event that you will not be available to accept delivery on June 23rd, it may be more convenient to use our pre-sign delivery option by visiting our Order Status website at http://www.apple.com/orderstatus. <http://www.apple.com/orderstatus>
Sincerely,
The Apple Store Team
I just got an email directly from apple saying its coming on the 23rd...
Dear Apple Store Customer,
You recently received a Shipment Notification email from Apple advising you that your iPhone has shipped.
This email is to confirm that your delivery will occur on June 23rd. Although Apple and FedEx tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the FedEx website the morning of the June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep.
In the event that you will not be available to accept delivery on June 23rd, it may be more convenient to use our pre-sign delivery option by visiting our Order Status website at http://www.apple.com/orderstatus.
Sincerely,
The Apple Store Team
Edit: Seems like TW!SM got the same email, I can only take one day of work off, so if this email is inaccurate I will be very annoyed.
I'm confused now. I just got this email as well. Mine has said the 24th the whole time. I hope the email is accurate when it says the 23rd. My phone is currently about 2 hours away from me in CA so it could very well arrive by the 23rd.
I received the same email as the one posted above.
"Although Apple and Fedex tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the Fedex website the morning of June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep."
It's a shame people are so stubborn and won't even be open to the fact that Apple *might* have it arrive a day early.
"Although Apple and Fedex tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the Fedex website the morning of June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep."
It's a shame people are so stubborn and won't even be open to the fact that Apple *might* have it arrive a day early.
I got this email, too. Normally, I wouldn't think this was a big deal...so it comes a day early. But I think it's a bit odd that Apple is actually acknowledging it. Why not just let the orders arrive early?
I think they saw the meltdown with preordering and are going to let people get them a day early to ease up on the activation servers for the 24th.
It lets people plan to be home to sign for their respective packages. It encourages people to activate a day early, keeping some of the load off of the 24th activation. It paints Apple as having a plan in place, rather than being early but unreliable.
And so on...
I think that's exactly why they are doing this, it makes the most sense, and considering they had a meltdown with activation last year, this would be the easiest way for them to do it.
+1 on receiving the email. I LOVE it!! Going down to the AT&T store Wednesday afternoon and casually shop for cases with it in my hot little hand. Maybe I'll even run into a few early birds waiting in line.....
I also received the email from apple (about 15 minutes ago). I've never received such an email in earlier iPhone launches. I understand when FedEx tracking says an earlier date and then a 'delivery exception' comes in at the last minute to hold to Apple's date - but this time Apple seems to be saying that it will be here a day early.
The only thing that was odd to me was the wording of the Apple email:
"of the" seemed odd (should just be "of" IMO). I thought maybe it was a scammer (with poor grammar). But mail headers look good (to me).
BTW: My FedEx tracking info still shows June 24th.
Okay, now you got me thinking too. My BS sensor was just activated. The email came from donotreply@apple.com. I've never received an email from that address. Order information always comes from orders.apple.com.
Maybe a MR user has culled email addresses from recent posters in order to play a tiny joke on us? If my iPhone comes on the 23rd, GREAT! If not, not harm done.
Looks like it's a legit email, after googling it for a minute.
http://www.hax-revolution.com/ebalch/blog/files/c8051d5d99b5667ec02729fa51dd977a-14.html
I don't know how 'spoof-able' mail headers are nowadays. But, if anyone is interested, here's the mail headers ("view source") for the email I received from Apple tonight:
Code:
X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTE7YT0xO0Q9MTtTQ0w9MA==
X-Message-Status: n:0
X-SID-PRA: donotreply@apple.com
X-SID-Result: Pass
X-AUTH-Result: PASS
X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+WPnpVLEyMwq+T5m9aoe+ztNx36Bm/hO1j7xmbTMjZw+DxJI8OWSsH9pTdsNnsTncz3PhS3kAQU3IpaKucHYLQ0=
Received: from mail-out3.apple.com ([17.254.13.22]) by col0-mc2-f31.Col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675);
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:49:13 -0700
Received: from relay11.apple.com (relay11.apple.com [17.128.113.48])
by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632C7993BB9D
for <MY_EMAIL_REMOVED_BEFORE_POSTING>; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
X-AuditID: 11807130-b7cd0ae00000795d-b4-4c204ed96933
Received: from biweb (bi22.corp.apple.com [17.104.172.202])
by relay11.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with SMTP id 4A.7C.31069.9DE402C4; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by biweb (Postfix, from userid 70)
id 1C3641531E40; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:49:23 -0500 (CDT)
To: MY_EMAIL_REMOVED_BEFORE_POSTING
Subject: Apple Store - Your iPhone will deliver on June 23rd
From: donotreply@apple.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_xc8b4b3e00332c956cf5ee395436e2d49x"
Message-Id: <20100622054923.1C3641531E40@biweb>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:49:23 -0500 (CDT)
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAZE=
Return-Path: www@biweb.corp.apple.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jun 2010 05:49:13.0810 (UTC) FILETIME=[A4ECAB20:01CB11CE]
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--==Multipart_Boundary_xc8b4b3e00332c956cf5ee395436e2d49x
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Dear Apple Store Customer,<br><br>
You recently received a Shipment Notification email from Apple advising you that your iPhone has shipped.<br><br>
This email is to confirm that your delivery will occur on June 23rd. Although Apple and FedEx tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the FedEx website the morning of the June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep.<br><br>
In the event that you will not be available to accept delivery on June 23rd, it may be more convenient to use our pre-sign delivery option by visiting our Order Status website at <a href="http://www.apple.com/orderstatus">http://www.apple.com/orderstatus.</a><br><br>
Sincerely,<br><br>
The Apple Store Team
--==Multipart_Boundary_xc8b4b3e00332c956cf5ee395436e2d49x--
</I also noticed that although it was sent to my email address, they never referred to me by name (or listed my order number).
The headers above really do look like they come from Apple, though (IMO).
Like you said, if it does show up on the 23rd, that'll be great. But, I'm not counting on it...
According to FedEx, my iPhone just touched down in Oakland. If he wants to come to his new home a day early, I'll be waiting. Assuming this email is legit now.
My Fed Ex says the morning of June 23rd at 10:30am and I just got the email from Apple confirming the morning June 23rd ship date. We'll see I guess.
Normal or not, delivery exception at the last minute is lame. Add to that an email that specifically says it will arrive on the 23rd and the fact that you have to sign for it...I would imagine some people aren't just sitting home for the next 2 days and are planning on taking time to be home to receive it.