Oh I know. I used to work for UPS as a supervisor. If the pilot is US based they celebrate the holiday no matter where they are.
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Oh I know. I used to work for UPS as a supervisor. If the pilot is US based they celebrate the holiday no matter where they are.
Surprised they wouldn't get a day in-lieu. That's what most 24/7/365 operations do. You work it into the rotation (just like vacation days) so there's less impact.
Both fedex and ups push as much volume through the system no matter the delivery date. That wat as the it turns midnight where ever in the world that American based employee is, the vast majority of the volume will make its delivery date. And it works this way for any country and the respective holiday(s). That way the employee gets to celebrate the holiday. They are 24/7/365 operations just not everywhere, everyday. If that makes since.
Looks like they are closed, just called and it rang like 15 times, no answer!
Sucks!
Not according to flightaware. There's a number of flights in / out.
Fwiw - 2 in the air from China - 5 scheduled for Louisville later today.
Yep. The UPS Hub for U.S. CBP in Anchorage is open M-Sa 7a-3p excluding federal holidays.
Its a federal holiday so if I remember right customs is closed too. But the last Apple rep I talked to said my watch was in their Tennessee warehouse already.
Customs doesn't have to be open for a flight to land. They take it from the plane via bonded transport to a bonded storage location until CBP clears the items.
Ah...likely came in one of the flights earlier in the weekend.
Ooh....this could mean a LOT of activity tomorrow!!!
Flights are not the same thing as customs clearance
Edit: Sorry, see that I crossed posts there!
Cargo can be precleared at the point of origin. It's done just for these type of events. Anchorage became a cargo hub because of airplane not being able to make the trip from China to UPS and FedEx hubs in the states. Now the 777f can so a lot of volume move through fedex goes direct from China to Memphis skipping anchorage all together.
Ok, so they could let it take the next leg to Louisville and just hold it until the paperwork clears?
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Most people have already answered that at some point.
...and he's an :04. The last of the May window to get his watch.
That's cool.
So as long as FlightAware shows that UPS have planes in the sky, we can assume that things are ticking along and we will get our watches on a suitable working day in the next.....4-6 weeks
So as long as FlightAware shows that UPS have planes in the sky, we can assume that things are ticking along and we will get our watches on a suitable working day in the next.....4-6 weeks
Yeah, ordered at 8:32am eastern April 10th - July here... Just so much waiting and no response from anything... Got charged twice and refunded twice for AppleCare to make sure my card still works... Soon I'm hoping
That's cool.
So as long as FlightAware shows that UPS have planes in the sky, we can assume that things are ticking along and we will get our watches on a suitable working day in the next.....4-6 weeks
There's that optimism again. Careful, people will start calling you Bixi.
Do you know if Apple sends the straight to the Uk, or if they go through one of these hubs? I know there's Anchorage - Louisville - then East Midlands, but there is also a hub in Cologne that's to cover Europe.
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There's that optimism again. Careful, people will start calling you Bixi.
Oh cool. Nicknames = social acceptance
Who's Bixi?
Bixizero...haven't heard much of him since he finally got his watch. Was even more doom and gloom that Chulan here.
Seriously...guy had zero good things to day...was pretty depressing.