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Just a thought, but any orders with the final delivery being done by UK Mail, (The part where you get handed the item and sign it off) would be the ones with the specified time slot as UK Mail have full control over that.

But with their partnerships with Royal Mail, and Nightline etc which obviously they'd use in times like this where the amount of packages is overwhelming, those orders wouldn't have a time slot on the UK Mail site as the final delivery is not actually executed by UK Mail themselves?

Just a thought I had.
 
Ok, I failed.

Having pre-ordered a 6+ 64 in space gray last week, I struggled to order with the store and app. Having eventually ordered and been disappointed with a 3-4 week delivery I decided to get up at 6 am today and take a punt.

Visited Apple in Liverpool. Within ten minutes of queuing the boys in blue said they had NO 6 plus models. Hardly a surprise to me. So I travelled to Apple Trafford centre. There the queues for people who had reservations was almost as big as the entire queue at Liverpool, and the separate queue for those without was 'in the car park, there's hundreds of them' said the kind security woman.

So I've waisted some sleep and diesel.

I am now left questioning my impatience and intellect. Feel a bit like a disappointed 'addict' without their 'hit'.

I always buy my devices outright but have never queued before. For the 4 and 5 I just popped into the Apple Store on release day around lunch, without wait or drama.

Oh well. First world problems and all that.
 
Exact same situation as you mate. It's in central London so it may be very busy. Plus in London, they tend to use smaller vans to help with delivery times. I'm not too worried, it'll come today!

Spoke to UKMail saying it might not come and will be tomorrow because there very busy and docklands (our depot) is the busiest in the whole network??????!?? Pissed offff!!
 

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UK Mail tracking now showing a delivery time: 13:43 to 14:43... No text from them, although did have a text from Apple earlier this morning saying that my order was arriving today.

DPD coming 3 hours before UK Mail, with a Spigen case, and my Apple case seems to be stuck in the UK Mail system about to be handed over to Royal Mail, so sometime next week I suppose!

Royal Mail have had my Apple case since early Wednesday morning. I'm hoping that Mrs Postman was extra-specially obliging to Mr Postman last night and that he might be in a good enough mood to deign to bring it to my house today.
 
Still waiting for my DPD text/tracking to give me a time so I can run out for breakfast! Worked nights last night, home at 4, but didn't sleep until 5.30ish as I was addicted to checking this and the queuing threads on here!
 
Ok, I failed.

Having pre-ordered a 6+ 64 in space gray last week, I struggled to order with the store and app. Having eventually ordered and been disappointed with a 3-4 week delivery I decided to get up at 6 am today and take a punt.

Visited Apple in Liverpool. Within ten minutes of queuing the boys in blue said they had NO 6 plus models. Hardly a surprise to me. So I travelled to Apple Trafford centre. There the queues for people who had reservations was almost as big as the entire queue at Liverpool, and the separate queue for those without was 'in the car park, there's hundreds of them' said the kind security woman.

So I've waisted some sleep and diesel.

I am now left questioning my impatience and intellect. Feel a bit like a disappointed 'addict' without their 'hit'.

I always buy my devices outright but have never queued before. For the 4 and 5 I just popped into the Apple Store on release day around lunch, without wait or drama.

Oh well. First world problems and all that.

Why did you not pre-order it online on day of release?
 
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