I live in NYC, my Silver 64GB Verizon phone has been in China all day, and UPS tells me I'll have it by end-of-day on Wednesday
I'm in NYC too. Same delivery date. Cant decide if I shld pre-sign since I wont be home.
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I'm in NYC too. Same delivery date. Cant decide if I shld pre-sign since I wont be home.
I live in NYC, my Silver 64GB Verizon phone has been in China all day, and UPS tells me I'll have it by end-of-day on Wednesday
Same! Stuck in Zhengzhou, delivers to me in NYC on Wednesday.
That might be your best bet, or you can arrange to pick it up at the UPS center. They unfortunately won't leave it with a neighbor. Also, I don't know if this is applicable to you, but if you have it shipped to your job, Apple lets you check the address as a business address, that way you're guaranteed to get it before 5 pm. Just a note for future reference
Yeah I changed the shipping address to my work address for that exact reason. That way my company's mail team can deal with signing for it, plus corporate addresses get earlier deliveries don't they? My office building has it's own zip code... that's gotta mean something right?!
Got my confirmation at 12:17 and ordered the silver 16 gig AT&T it saids to arrive on thursday...
Please don't... That's incredibly risky. If someone takes it you are just OUT and will have to buy one at retail price.
Edit : i guarantee teenagers are driving around this week picking them up off doorsteps.
Not too easy to get into my building. It is a multi-unit complex. UPS usually leaves packages in front of people's door. No kids in the building, all adults, etc. I can specify a "leave at" instruction to leave at my door.
I'm also in NYC and my estimated delivery is end of day tuesday (tomorrow). It's currently in transit in Alaska
I am also stuck in ZhengZhou. I'm bummed since I was among the first to get a ship notice, among the first to get a departure from ZhengZhou scan, and a half hour later got stuck back in ZhengZhou, missing the plane to Incheon.
I've been annoying everybody with a high-pitched privileged whine of "My phone is stuck in Chiiiiina!"
I'm guessing UPS knew my phone wasn't making that plane right from the get go, because I have Thursday as a projected delivery date.
I've been annoying everybody with a high-pitched privileged whine of "My phone is stuck in Chiiiiina!"
I'm guessing UPS knew my phone wasn't making that plane right from the get go, because I have Thursday as a projected delivery date.
How do you know 5am ET? That's really weird, this is a 24/7 operation and the plane in chartered...
Kinda suck that you have to paid $10 extra to have it deliver on wed, because I did not pay $10 and I still get it on wed tohouston tx as well tmobile unlocked 16gb gold. I ordered it sametimes as you.
On the other hand 2-3 minutes after my order was placed I placed my dads order and he got 7-10 days ship
What sucks even more is that I paid $10 for expedited and it's expected Thursday for me. 1-(800)-MYAPPLE, expect me.
Thats when the first batch left.
I made this schedule. If you're waiting in china right now, this should apply. It's more or less the schedule the first batch followed, so within 30 minutes, it should be accurate, assuming it takes the same path, which would be logical.
(This is in EDT)
China 09/22/2013 7:08 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
ZhengZhou, China 09/23/2013 2:42 A.M. Origin Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/23/2013 7:30 A.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/23/2013 8:00 A.M. Arrival Scan
ZhengZhou, China 09/24/2013 4:48 A.M. Departure Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 09/24/2013 6:40 A.M. Arrival Scan
Incheon, Korea, Republic of 09/24/2013 10:58 A.M. Departure Scan
Takes this flight: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/U...255Z/RKSI/PANC
Anchorage, AK, United States 09/24/2013 5:09 P.M. Arrival Scan
Anchorage, AK, United States 09/24/2013 6:46 P.M. Departure Scan
Takes this flight: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/U...248Z/PANC/KSDF
Louisville, KY, United States 09/25/2013 12:45 A.M. Arrival Scan
... which is why the first batch did? although longer then 14...
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Looks like everyone got two Departure Scans. Anyone know what's up with that, and why the second one is so long after the Arrival Scan?
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origin scan is at the factory.
departed factory in china.
nice drive across town to airport (or whereever they're stored before they're put on the plane), arrival scan.
departure scan from china to korea.
So different place in same city.
And the 2nd departure is because they get to the airport a long time before the plane.
Thanks for the info sir! I've been using flightaware.com (and finding it hard to explain to some friends why I'm tracking planes in the middle of class), and it seems like the flight from Zhengzhou to Incheon isn't UPS... is it dispatched to another carrier or is it on Korean Air/China Air??
Thanks for the info sir! I've been using flightaware.com (and finding it hard to explain to some friends why I'm tracking planes in the middle of class), and it seems like the flight from Zhengzhou to Incheon isn't UPS... is it dispatched to another carrier or is it on Korean Air/China Air??
That flight I don't know the number, someone did say Korean Air though, so yeah, good work!
Gosh I need the dang thing to get here so I at least am messing with the phone, not stalking it.
I'm in Houston, which looks like has a directly flight from Zhengzhou based on the other thread. So I don't think that applies to me, but still cool that you put together a flight outline.
I don't think it does. I think you're referring to where you saw the screenshot of the guy who requested pickup at his location right?
It shows locations for events relevant to his shipment. Not necessarily that they are there. Pretty sure you're going the same route as everyone else.
Kinda suck that you have to paid $10 extra to have it deliver on wed, because I did not pay $10 and I still get it on wed tohouston tx as well tmobile unlocked 16gb gold. I ordered it sametimes as you.
On the other hand 2-3 minutes after my order was placed I placed my dads order and he got 7-10 days ship
Ugh that sucks. Oh well.
That flight I don't know the number, someone did say Korean Air though, so yeah, good work!
Gosh I need the dang thing to get here so I at least am messing with the phone, not stalking it.
UPS had a press release posted in these forums elsewhere that had announced new service with 767 from zhengzhou to incheon. They don't publish their schedule so think that causes flightaware issues overseas (no direct atc feed).
Can't imagine they would or could put pallets of phones into 737s or A320s. For this kind of mass movement you want a cargo aircraft.
You sound like you know what you're talking about. I don't though haha.
What effect does what you said have on what I said? Not being smart-assy or anything, just want to understand!