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Oct. 1 to 6 2014 Delivery Date Orders (Update) Delivered earlier!

DanerMax said:
Has anyone else noticed that there are no departures currently scheduled to leave louisville between 1:50 and 5:20 am. Odd huh? That's when the anchorage flights were arriving last night
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Apparently they are scheduled/filed a couple hours before. History could help you predict. (Went thru all this last night)
 
I'm stuck in Louisville too...waiting on a Import Scan. EOD 9/25

Louisville, KY, United States 09/23/2014 9:05 A.M. Arrival Scan
 
Rafterman said:
Shenzen is a second factory.
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Has anyone on this thread had a package coming from Shenzen? It seems the majority are coming from ZhengZhou. I would find a factory outside of China. Competition might help with flight slots and airport access.
 
So UPS says it will be delivered tomorrow, Apple said it would be delivered on Friday. Should I get my hopes up for tomorrow or not? My phone is half way to KY now.
 
chemdawg said:
When do you usually get the notification that your package is ready to pick up at the UPS center?
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It will say your request was 'completed'. It may also say 'out for delivery' but I think that's because they don't have a 'ready for pickup' phrase. Hopefully I'll find out first hand tomorrow.
 
Joshua Moore said:
You're not the only one man
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lapril said:
You and me both brother. :p
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I am chick :p

I called Apple and they told me, I am sorry for all the inconvenience but we haven't done anything wrong on our part and be happy you are getting it the 25th instead of mid Oct, because they are a lot of customer that are not as lucky as you!. Because their site crashing is not their fault, not having enough phones to at least cover the first 5hrs of pre orders is not their fault. This keeps happening year after year and they still haven't been able to get their act together to the point their site works and they have enough inventory to cover the first 3-5hrs of pre-orders!.
 
rfc1918 said:
I can't believe Apple is only producing these phones in ZhengZhou. That's the real issue. That's the bottleneck.

The supply chain is constrained. UPS can only add so many additional flights and airplanes. They don't control take off and landing slots. They can't take over extra space at the airport. It's not feasible to lease extra airplanes for one event per year.

Even if FEDEX, DHL, and UPS were all being used as shipping companies in ZhengZhou, they are squeezing this one city's limits for the supply chain. An American shipping company can only do so much to deal with the extra volume. This is why many US companies build their depots around Memphis and Louisville. These cities and airports have spent decades building to support the constant volume of FEDEX and UPS. This includes the 3rd party inter-model companies that move freight between air, train, and truck.

It's terribly complicated and we're not seeing delays because UPS wants to torture their customers. There is absolutely no upside if this were true. There is a constraint somewhere in UPS's system and it's not easy to grow your operation in one Chinese city for an event that happens once per year.

If Apple produced these phones in 2-3 cities, the burden would be distributed and we would not be here right now.
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They were talking about manufacturing/storing the apple devices from different locations but it's probably hard for other companies to compete with Foxconn's bid per device and the infrastructure they have in place.
 
rfc1918 said:
Has anyone on this thread had a package coming from Shenzen? It seems the majority are coming from ZhengZhou airport. I would find a factory outside of China.
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Foxconn has one in Brazil too, but I'm not sure if they are producing iPhones and iPads or just parts.
 
RiverSong said:
I am chick :p



I called Apple and they told me, I am sorry for all the inconvenience but we haven't done anything wrong on our part and be happy you are getting it the 25th instead of mid Oct, because they are a lot of customer that are not as lucky as you!. Because their site crashing is not their fault, not having enough phones to at least cover the first 5hrs of pre orders is not their fault. This keeps happening year after year and they still haven't been able to get their act together to the point their site works and they have enough inventory to cover the first 3-5hrs of pre-orders!.
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Oh sorry. You're not the only one madam :p
 
Desmondhuz said:
They were talking about manufacturing/storing the apple devices from different locations but it's probably hard for other companies to compete with Foxconn's bid per device and the infrastructure they have in place.
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You hit the nail on the head. It all comes down to money. :)
 
Thenicknology said:
Who's still in Incheon?

Tempted to just go to bed and see what tomorrow morning brings us since I know I won't be getting it tomorrow. Oh well.

#Team520
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Still in Incheon...

I "preordered" on 9/15 between 9:30pm and 10pm EST; Gold/iPhone 6/64GB.
 
RiverSong said:
I am chick :p

I called Apple and they told me, I am sorry for all the inconvenience but we haven't done anything wrong on our part and be happy you are getting it the 25th instead of mid Oct, because they are a lot of customer that are not as lucky as you!. Because their site crashing is not their fault, not having enough phones to at least cover the first 5hrs of pre orders is not their fault. This keeps happening year after year and they still haven't been able to get their act together to the point their site works and they have enough inventory to cover the first 3-5hrs of pre-orders!.
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The first fix is to split the deliveries equally between UPS and Fedex instead of the current 90/10 split, as its clear that UPS is incapable of keeping up on its own.
 
Rafterman said:
Foxconn has one in Brazil too, but I'm not sure if they are producing iPhones and iPads or just parts.
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At this point, I would have paid extra to have an iPhone 6 made in Kentucky. It would have been here by now and we could have given some folks a good job.
 
Oct. 1 to 6 Delivery Date Orders (Update) Shipping earlier!

okay I've come to terms that my phone may not get here till Thursday . Just to be safe I asked off work for Wednesday and Thursday lol. So what am I suppose to do tomorrow! First world problems
 
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