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UK iPhone 4S thread.
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All the best for Friday! Hope we get our orders Friday morning!! Did yours just change there now? I'm sooo excited I can't wait haha!!
I am so excited too!! Need it to come on friday before 3pm as I'm flying to London for the weekend!!
Especially need it to come as i smashed my screen on my iPhone 4 this morning!! Not good!! Still working though!!
Hope all goes to plan and you get sorted too!! Didn't fang heading up to Victoria Square at an ungodly hour on friday morning!!
Yeah the status just changed in the last 10 mins or so!!
And another order goes to "Preparing for Shipment"!
White 64GB & White 16GB, order confirmation email timed at 10:24 on the 7th.
(At least I can't accidentally cancel them now! )
White 64GB & White 16GB, order confirmation email timed at 10:24 on the 7th.
(At least I can't accidentally cancel them now!
)16gb white - prepared W2603-
64gb black - processing W2503-
both prepared
lets hope they ship from within the ukhaving worked for a distibution centre (not apple) there are 2 main process for a product launch which is usually:
you'd have a seperate floor area for each different product.
seperate teams are then given their sheets of orders
hundreds of temporary east european workers grab the product, put them in the cardboard boxes, slides them down a conveyor to be filled with air bubble packing material, sealed and transit label attached.
they they get palletised for the courier, who normally leave a few trailers out back so it's loaded and ready to go when the driver shows up.
courier will then take it to the airport or a main courier distribution hub (depending on location)
i assume at some point in there, your gift message is added.
For mixed orders/alternative way: a conveyor belt with your cardboard box with your order sheet in it and gift message go around, and workers place your phone into the box and send it on it's way down a specific conveyor belt for either a different product to be added to the box or down to be sealed and labelled.
the orders are usually sorted by product (and i have no idea on order of the orders) - so one team will have all single orders of 16gb white, another will have 32gb black etc... so you don't have a mass of workers scrambling around grabbing the product
Pure guess: there are about 3500 iphone boxes (not customer orders) per pallet based on size of iphone box and how many you could fit onto a full sized pallet and how many layers you can stack them.
it doesn't explain why most of the black 4S orders have been fufilled more than white, but that's my 2pence on logistics.
You can take it with a grain of salt if you wish - product launches will change warehouse configurations depending what is being launched so all above could be crap.
you'd have a seperate floor area for each different product.
seperate teams are then given their sheets of orders
hundreds of temporary east european workers grab the product, put them in the cardboard boxes, slides them down a conveyor to be filled with air bubble packing material, sealed and transit label attached.
they they get palletised for the courier, who normally leave a few trailers out back so it's loaded and ready to go when the driver shows up.
courier will then take it to the airport or a main courier distribution hub (depending on location)
i assume at some point in there, your gift message is added.
For mixed orders/alternative way: a conveyor belt with your cardboard box with your order sheet in it and gift message go around, and workers place your phone into the box and send it on it's way down a specific conveyor belt for either a different product to be added to the box or down to be sealed and labelled.
the orders are usually sorted by product (and i have no idea on order of the orders) - so one team will have all single orders of 16gb white, another will have 32gb black etc... so you don't have a mass of workers scrambling around grabbing the product
Pure guess: there are about 3500 iphone boxes (not customer orders) per pallet based on size of iphone box and how many you could fit onto a full sized pallet and how many layers you can stack them.
it doesn't explain why most of the black 4S orders have been fufilled more than white, but that's my 2pence on logistics.
You can take it with a grain of salt if you wish - product launches will change warehouse configurations depending what is being launched so all above could be crap.
With so many people getting their iPhones prepared or actually shipped - I'm still stuck here with "Processing Items". Every year I have trouble obtaining Apple launch devices.
Literally just got Preparing For Shipment as of 22:46 after frantically hitting refresh! Was about to phone Apple and my Credit Card company to make sure everything was okay!
Order 08:45 through Apple App on iPhone 4.
Received conformation at 10:58.
Ordered 16GB in White.
Now awaiting delivery early tomorrow
Order 08:45 through Apple App on iPhone 4.
Received conformation at 10:58.
Ordered 16GB in White.
Now awaiting delivery early tomorrow
Going by last time, delivery confirmations with tracking info will be sent out in a few hours.
Of course, tracking info is fairly useless generally.
Thanks for the info - no doubt there is a system which has to work in parallel with a mass of workers else they'd never get sent out in time.
