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UK iPhone 5s and 5c Thread
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Yes, provided its scheduled to go on the flight that supposedly leaves later tonight. The crucial part is how quickly its made ready and clears customs.
O2 definitely have adapters - they gave me one free when I picked up a nano sim because I said I'd be swapping back to my 4s occasionally (off on holiday on Sunday and just not ready to risk my shiny new 5s on the beach!)
It doesn't matter whether or not something has to be paid, infact the UPS World Ease product its on is designed to try and pass customs quickly as they are one large shipment.
Fact is though, it still needs to be cleared by Customs Officials, if there is a backlog or large amount of items that also need processing, it could slow it down enough to miss the next flight. There is also the fact they may wish to do an inspection, which if you have been following the thread, did occur on one of the early deliveries at the start of the week when somebody posted the tracking data.
Let's hope they do go through quickly though.
I believe only so many flights are actually allowed to take off over night though because of European night restrictions.
It's in UPS' and Customs interest to get all packages processed through the system as quickly as possible. Fingers crossed everything runs smoothly for us.
There is no such thing as European night restrictions, it all depends on the airport.
For example the airport in Hannover (HAJ) has no night restrictions, but I am not sure about the airport Köln/Bonn.
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dannyjames8
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UPS does have a daily scheduled flight from CGN to STN at around 1-2am not sure of the exact time so there doesn't seem to be a night jet ban for this flight.
Mine went from EMA to Edinburgh by road. The scan times were all over the place though and it never showed out for delivery but just arrived on Wed this week.
Yeah that one isn't a problem if they make it on the flight.
I was replying to The0w3n5 who implied because there were loads of UPS planes there, that should they miss it, that maybe they would go on one of those instead.
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Currently the people who ordered within the first few minutes have only just started shipping.
The people who ordered not much longer afterwards and were given a vague 'October' date are still waiting and as of yet still don't have any kind of forecast other than October.
So you could be in for a long wait I'm afraid.
I remember reading your posts on Wednesday! Looked a bit of a nightmare.
What time was your Cologne departure scan?
Edit - a better question might be what time did it leave EMA?
That may be, but don't blame Europe for our stupid restrictions that some people enforced that chose to live near an airport.
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dannyjames8
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None for me either, I did see that one guy wrote earlier that he got an arrival scan around 4am and it was delivered that same day so I doubt we will see much till the morning
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dannyjames8
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I'm not too sure, because before it was just transit scans, arrival and departures for the airport. But now its going through UPS sorting depots and custom clearances so I think they have longer delays to come up on the tracking. I'm not too sure but I don't think they are entirely accurate.
My import scan was at 3:56 so they must be starting to separate the packages. Where a bouts is yours getting delivered to can I ask? Mine is coming to South west London.
My import scan was at 3:56 so they must be starting to separate the packages. Where a bouts is yours getting delivered to can I ask? Mine is coming to South west London.
Just realised I actually replied to the poster that got the import scan and nothing else. Not sure how I forgot that.. perhaps I should go to sleep now.
Mines got to get to Edinburgh. I presume UPS schedule their flights to the hub in East Midlands so that they can get as many packages out the next day as possible. So if it has made that flight there may be a chance!
