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Did the track by reference trick on UPS, and now seeing movement...My order status on Apple still says "Preparing to Ship"...


Suzhou, China
09/17/2018 6:49 P.M. Departure Scan
09/17/2018 6:13 P.M. Origin Scan
China 09/16/2018 5:11 A.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
 
Did the track by reference trick on UPS, and now seeing movement...My order status on Apple still says "Preparing to Ship"...

It’ll stay that way for a while. Apple only updates it to “Shipped” status two or three days before the delivery date. I’ve had that happen with all my previous launch day deliveries.
 
Since I have a multiple orders, one of which is just a phone case and two lightning-to-stereo dongles, I'm going to run a little experiment with UPS. That order shipped Friday from Ontario, CA and was originally scheduled to be delivered today. I requested that it be delivered to my nearest UPS store instead. When I initially did this the website popped up a dialog saying it would be delayed to tomorrow. But what do you know, it's now out for delivery and should be delivered to the store today.

Not sure if I'll have the guts to do this for my phone and watch orders, but this is encouraging. Like I said before, FedEx can handle this stuff without issue, so it really surprises me that UPS makes such a big deal out of it.
 
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Still annoyed I am in the September 28- Oct 2 grouping, hope these move up a bit.

Hey, could be worse.... 2 hours after the order availability time gets you 12-19... even now I could order and get 15-22... Just sucks... but I'm happy for the folks getting their watch on Friday.
 
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Hopefully, my watch will be prepared to ship soon
 
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Glad to hear i'm not the only one. My CC has a pending charge on it since saturday

Pending charge is a good sign. I ordered a SS 44 milanese loop in same order as an iPhone XS Max. My CC had a pending charge early Friday (that eventually dropped off) for just the phone but cleared this morning. Says preparing to ship since Saturday in my order history but I can find the tracking on UPS with order number.

Watch though is still in processing status. Never a pending charge yet for it, no movement at all. :( Still says delivers 9/21 so keeping my fingers crossed.
 
Will we be able to have the watch held at a distribution center? What’s the process to do that?
 
Will we be able to have the watch held at a distribution center? What’s the process to do that?

Depends. In Calgary whenever I've called UPS they've always insisted that they need to do 1-delivery attempt before holding it at the distribution centre. Your region/area may have different rules. I usually call as soon as I get a tracking # to see what I can do.
 
Over the course of the last 36 hours I got all my UPS tracking numbers.
Everything for a delivery on the 21st and in time.

Now I just that UPS changed that for the 2 Watches:
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I don’t like the exception triangles and the tentative.

The phones on the other hand still say a firm 21st and on time.
 
Same here. Living in Calgary.
Still showing 9/21 but processing, CC not charged
Ditto here from GTA in Ontario. Trying to remember other times I’ve ordered for del’y on launch date. Pretty sure status went to PFS sometime on the Monday afternoon.

Monday night China to Anchorage.
Tuesday Anchorage to Louisville.
Wed night/Thurs AM Louisville to Hamilton, then by road to their Vaughn DC
Friday on a truck to me (I hope - if not I’ll survive until Monday)
 
Over the course of the last 36 hours I got all my UPS tracking numbers.
Everything for a delivery on the 21st and in time.

Now I just that UPS changed that for the 2 Watches:


I don’t like the exception triangles and the tentative.

The phones on the other hand still say a firm 21st and on time.

I have the triangles and tentative, as well.
 
I have pending charges for all my orders (Xs delivering Fri, 40 SS Milanese delivering Friday, Xs max pick up fri morning.) However I don't have anything in my UPS yet (the 4 different cases I ordered are all showing up in fedex)
 
Finally on the move...

Shanghai, China 09/17/2018 7:04 P.M. Arrival Scan
Suzhou, China 09/17/2018 6:49 P.M. Departure Scan
09/17/2018 6:13 P.M. Origin Scan
China 09/16/2018 5:11 A.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
 
Since I have a multiple orders, one of which is just a phone case and two lightning-to-stereo dongles, I'm going to run a little experiment with UPS. That order shipped Friday from Ontario, CA and was originally scheduled to be delivered today. I requested that it be delivered to my nearest UPS store instead. When I initially did this the website popped up a dialog saying it would be delayed to tomorrow. But what do you know, it's now out for delivery and should be delivered to the store today.

Not sure if I'll have the guts to do this for my phone and watch orders, but this is encouraging. Like I said before, FedEx can handle this stuff without issue, so it really surprises me that UPS makes such a big deal out of it.
Well my experiment worked. Initially UPS said it would be delayed until tomorrow, but my package was delivered about an hour ago to the store. Again, not sure that I'll be bold enough to try this with my phones, but it is encouraging.
 
Here in Italy the ups “trick” didn’t work. No tracking information available. Maybe the us watches are shipped earlier.
 
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