Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not Apple's fault, it's TNT who are taking (at current estimates) just under a week to ship the iPhones on a journey with lengthy pauses.
Three days from Arnheim to delivery for example - we should have hired a truck and driven to Arnheim and offered to drive the rest of the way ourselves - would have shown the "there's nothing we can do to get them delivered any quicker" to be the lie it was.
But DO send a politely worded e-mail of complaint to Apple saying how unhappy you are with TNTs service and requesting they not use them in future. Hopefully Apple are aware of the magical mystery tour this batch of iPhones has gone on and shouting loudly at TNT. If enough of us complain it may get TNT to pull their socks up, but not sadly in time to resolve this farce.
When the iPad and iPhone launch days occurred, customer reps from the courier services (I think it was TNT but could be wrong) posted on these forums but TNT have been strangely quiet about this, except to tell a different Jackanory to each person that phoned to ask what was going on, and insisting there was nothing they could do to deliver quicker (funny, I thought this was the 21st century and 24 hour global delivery was commonplace) and oh, it's Apple's fault for not realising how slow TNT was.
A couple of years ago I had to put my posessions in storage for a month whilst I moved house. I was stupid. I should have just sent the possessions to my new address via TNT and saved myself a months storage fees.
