I was annoyed at the tone of the response from Solarguy17. I realize that this is just a phone and have been through this with Apple for more years and products than I care to admit. I understand people's excitement about getting a new product but I would never take it upon myself to tell someone that they were wasting time - or a place in the Apple phone queue - with a question that I did not feel was "important".
The "tone" I had/have toward threads like this is mostly annoyance. Because EVERY year the type of thread pops up. People get worried about the phone not changing to Shipped and being stuck in Preparing to Ship for Week. And yet you never learn. 99.9% of the phones will be delivered on time. They are processing millions of shipments as we speak. There will always be some people who have the orders updated before others.
I know it's rough but you will get your phone and bugging Apple Support about it won't help you get you phone any earlier.
That being said, there are thousands of others concerned enough to choke up the lines that you don't matter all that much.
But seriously you will get you phone in time. Calm down and be patient.