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💻 👨‍💻 🌎 MacBook Pros 14-Inch and 16-Inch Pre-orders, Orders and Delivery Status Thread - USA & Other Countries (2021) 👩‍💻 💻 🌏

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What size screen MacBook Pro (2021) did you order?

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UltimateSyn said:
Well my 14” and 16” flew together until now. My 16” has a departure scan from Louisville, but my 14” does not. Oddly the 14” is the one that Apple quotes as arriving tomorrow. UPS still says both are arrive by tomorrow.

Do they ever miss scans ie. is it possible my 14” made the trip and didn’t get a departure scan?
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It’s possible that they are on separate pallets and just haven’t been scanned yet.
 
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beach bum said:
It’s possible that they are on separate pallets and just haven’t been scanned yet.
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Yes, they definitely miss scans all the time. Typically within the operation a package or pallet is scanned many times, but only one or two of those events are made public. If the package missed just one of those scans that it won't show on the tracking. I see that all the time, it is not uncommon.
 
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Canada gang rise up, mine finally scanned in the Caledon, ON hub :D

Looks good for tomorrow!

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rnizlek said:
Yes, it almost surely is. Mine is currently traveling from Louisville to Washington, DC by ground - over 600 miles. UPS has always run a very tightly integrated operation. Anything traveling within 500 miles is usually trucked if the time exists. On a Second Day Air service, UPS can truck a package between nearly any two points east of the Mississippi, or up and down the West Coast.

FedEx, by contrast, historically ran a very fragmented operation. That's for a few reasons - it was mostly built through acquisition, whereas UPS grew organically, and FedEx was also designed from the ground up to be difficulty to unionize (only their pilots are unionized, versus nearly every aspect of UPS's operation). But a FedEx Express package traditionally never traveled via their ground routes, except in particular corridors where they ran dedicated Express trucks. UPS will put Next Day, Second Day, Three Day Select, and Ground all on the same truck if it makes sense, and they all go through the same sorting facilities. FedEx has separate facilities for Ground and Express. FedEx has been doing some integration of their two small package divisions over the last few years but it is nowhere near as integrated as UPS is. Few realize that FedEx Ground is almost entirely built on contractors - neither your FedEx Ground driver nor the driver who drives FedEx Ground trailers you see on the highway are FedEx employees (Express workers are all directly employed).
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Interesting info! When I worked at Apple Retail, we used FedEx Freight. Everything was palletized, both incoming and outgoing. It was always 2 days from their distribution warehouse, I believe, based on our store location. Only service parts were overnighted, for obvious reasons. The pricing was ridiculously cheap...

Occasionally for launches of products, they would dropship items directly from China within a single day. Literally had iPhones arrive on a launch day at 3am using a private truck from the airport, and the items had left China earlier the same day. These items weren't visible in our store inventory system until they showed up at the store, so I could not track them. The purpose of this was to prevent employees from seeing unannounced products. At the time, we'd occasionally get products the same day they were announced by Steve. The only employees who had access to this inventory system were the inventory specialists (just a couple per store) + managers (who had no idea how to use it.)
 
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So, funny thing. I was at the Apple Store today along with a bazillion others. Two specialists at the table. I said, ”Tomorrow's a big day with new MacBooks launching.”. They nod. So, will there be any in stock to come in and buy, I ask. They look at each other. They smile. They say, in perfect unison, ”We won’t know until tomorrow.” And grin again.
 
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Tikatika said:
So, funny thing. I was at the Apple Store today along with a bazillion others. Two specialists at the table. I said, ”Tomorrow's a big day with new MacBooks launching.”. They nod. So, will there be any in stock to come in and buy, I ask. They look at each other. They smile. They say, in perfect unison, ”We won’t know until tomorrow.” And grin again.
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They are either not informed by their inventory specialists or not allowed to disclose this, but there's a 99% chance the new MBP are sitting in the back and the inventory people have already scanned them in and put them on the rolling racks in prep for overnight/early morning in store pickup reservations.
 
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