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Ordered direct from Apple. The less I have to deal with AT&T, the better ... lol.
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Ordered direct from Apple. The less I have to deal with AT&T, the better ... lol.
Ordered direct from Apple and shipping from TN ?

Carrier (AT&T) must have received inventory from Apple and shipping from AT&T warehouse ?

Was there a tracking number on your order ?
 
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Carrier (AT&T) must have received inventory from Apple and shipping from AT&T warehouse ?
No @LowerWolf ordered an AT&T Carrier iPhone 16 via Apple. Maybe it is coming from Lebanon, TN where Apple has a large warehouse.

On a related note 2 of my iPhone 16 Pro units are coming directly from AT&T Ft Worth via FedEx and FedEx has them. So yes the Carriers are receiving their direct bulk orders.

Dave
 
Ordered direct from Apple and shipping from TN ?

Carrier (AT&T) must have received inventory from Apple and shipping from AT&T warehouse ?

Was there a tracking number on your order ?
I ordered Friday morning (right after preorders went live) from Apple. Unlike others, I had nothing showing on my UPS MyChoice; but Apple's website has Sept. 20 as the delivery date, with the familiar preparing to ship message since Saturday.

I checked MyChoice a little bit ago for an unrelated package and saw the one from Apple (AI) listed now. It says it's shipping from Lebanon, TN (Nashville, essentially) but UPS doesn't have it yet. It doesn't show any tracking info prior to that, so I don't have all the fun tracking others have from China. I suppose it could be going from Louisville to Nashville?
 
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Anyone else have a delivery date of Sept 20 and still “preparing to ship”?
Everyone will still show that until tomorrow. The phones began to transit from China late this past weekend. Once they clear customs in Kentucky, you will be provided tracking information from Apple. If you have a confirmed UPS MyChoice account, the phone tracking info would have been populated there days ago.
 
no one has cleared customs yet, it will move toward it's next plane (or truck) and then be marked on Apple's order tracking as shipped. That's when I'll look again at the Change Delivery- "last minute" as you called it previously.

I have tried to change mine on UPS app and in Mac browser window, and neither offer the change I'm looking for today. My hope is it'll change when "shipped" and moving toward my CC.

Looking forward to seeing how our TX CC guy's attempt over lunch today works out. I've decided I'm not willing to drive to my CC twice in one week. If it doesn't work out I'll just wait patiently at home. lol
Well,
Struck out.
Fairly new person working there, and she was the only person there. She said, and I don’t know if any of it is true, that it is a UPS thing that they cannot put the hold on it at the CC. She then said I could call my shipper or the or the UPS number and have an intercept done on it to hold at the cc but she couldn’t put that in there. She did look up the tracking number that I gave to her, it has not cleared customs yet but she gave me an estimated delivery between 1115 to 315 on Friday, whereas the UPS customer center doesn’t open till 11 o’clock on Friday anyway. she did suggest that I could call UPS later and try to get it intercepted, so I’m sure I will just try to have it intercepted tomorrow after it clears customs.
 
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