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Other 📱📱U.S.A. - Apple.com - New iPhone 16/Plus/Pro/Pro Max US Pre-Orders, Orders, and Delivery Status Thread (2024)
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I used to tease my wife and toddler son that they were going to have an adventure waiting overnight at our Apple Store. This was in early days of iPhone. My son is now 19 and he’s going to sit with me by the front window waiting for the brown truck to pull up. Unless I can arrange a UPS CC pickup, which has been my favorite for many years!
As people above said, it is probably a scan created for customs, even before the plane has arrived.This doesn't make sense... Leave China around 6 pm on the 15th and arrive in the US around 9:30 pm on the 15th. Is it traveling through a worm hole or something.
It didn’t. This happens every year. That’s the pre-paperwork for customs. It always shows up in AfterShip and some of the other third party tracking apps. You’ll see scans for departure from ZZ, arrival in either Incheon, KR or Chek Lap Kok, HK, then in and out of Anchorage, before it actually physically arrives in Louisville.
Not always. But possible.Yes, I would say so and then they will merge with Wave 2 enroute and arrive in Louisville together on the same plane, at least that's how it happened before.
Do not even bother with Apple’s info, it will update to “shipping” on Thursday when it is sent from Louisville to your local UPS CC.
Be prepared for it to sit several days in China before moving to Anchorage. On the other hand, if it quickly leaves China, it’ll sit in Louisville for several days before updating after its “departing Anchorage stamp.
People freak out every year on these two know waiting periods. If Apple told you 9/20 delivery, you have at least a 99.99% likelihood of getting it then.
Most of the reported missed deliveries noted on these threads have been related to local weather events or people not at home in crowded urban neighborhoods where the driver did not want to leave the phone at someone’s front door.
edit: Hilarious how many people I read answering the same questions from many people asking it. And right after the answer was the same question yet again! Maybe we should have a thread with an info post at the beginning of it explaining frequently asked questions, maybe we could call it an FAQ! lol
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Yep still in China. A 747-400/800 flight can't make that transit based on these time unless it was non-stop ( times only show a max of 15 hours ) and full of Cargo not possible.
Dave
I believe the time stamps in the UPS app and site are in local time of the place where the item had the scan.This doesn't make sense... Leave China around 6 pm on the 15th and arrive in the US around 9:30 pm on the 15th. Is it traveling through a worm hole or something.
So, in the past when I pre-ordered for in-store pickup I would go 10 min before my assigned time and there would be 2 lines 1 to see what they have in stock and to try out the phone and 1 for pre-orders. This time I am picking up my phone at a smaller store than I usually go to which is bigger and I also need to pick up an Apple watch pre-order. if I have a time slot for one at 5 and the other at 5:15, can I go at 5 for both or can I come at 5:15 for both?
that iphone must have dug itself from china and somehow ended up at SDF almost a week earlyThis doesn't make sense... Leave China around 6 pm on the 15th and arrive in the US around 9:30 pm on the 15th. Is it traveling through a worm hole or something.
There is a wormhole known as the International Date Line. lolThis doesn't make sense... Leave China around 6 pm on the 15th and arrive in the US around 9:30 pm on the 15th. Is it traveling through a worm hole or something.
I have flown out of Asia and arrived home before I left.
That said, I don’t believe that phone is actually in Louisville, it doesn’t have the departure and arrival stamps for the intermediate flights to get it there.
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This is the first year I’ve ever done in-store pickup. Makes this week a lot more boring!
Yeah wait for an origin scan. We had this last year, the phones get custom clearance while they're still in China.
Yes, that definitely makes for some confusing time stamps. As the packages from Asia are traveling back in time, they can arrive before they left.
Make sure you share with the Apple Store that you are there for two devices when you first check in.
All times are for the local time zone of each location.This doesn't make sense... Leave China around 6 pm on the 15th and arrive in the US around 9:30 pm on the 15th. Is it traveling through a worm hole or something.