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UPS says my iPhone will arrive tomorrow

People really doubt/care that much if someone gets their phone early that they're willing to pay the person? Some of you are ridiculous.

I won't be surprised at all if you get it early, and unlike others who will be mad, good for you if you do. This has happened in the past with at least the last two phones. Can't say I remember anyone getting theirs 3 days early but I do remember 2 and 1.
 
Mine shows shipped from Nashville this Morning via Next Day Air Saver and is scheduled for delivery on Friday. I also live in Nashville, so I know it's already here...just waiting for it to show up.
 
lordofthereef said:
Where is all the doubt in this thread coming from? Every year a good chunk of people have been getting their phones 1-2 days early. I wouldn't think 3 days early would be outside the realm of possibility at all.
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A good chunk? If memory serves it's usually just a few fortunate souls. There's usually 2-3 youtube videos of people getting it early and a few posters on these forums. I'de say that 99.9% of people get it on launch day.
 
megapopular said:
Ups and FedEx will be glad to let some of these packages be delivered early. It helps them meet their shipping commitment by spreading the deliveries out over several days. They chalk it up as a mistake, several thousand people will be ecstatic to get their phones ahead of time, hundreds of thousands of people will be jealous of those few who got their phones early and life goes on.
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...and then Apple won't use them next year.
 
Who knows Tim Cook is the boss. You may get lucky. He wanted to double down on secrecy and every leak was accurate. Irrespective on tracking status 99.99% will get on launch day. During previous launches people tried to release hold, pickup early etc., nothing worked. These are processed by UPS logistics within Foxconn factory, so I guess they know how to prevent early delivery.
 
It would be hilarious if UPS tried to deliver it tomorrow. But you weren't home to sign for it.
 
iphoneclassic said:
Who knows Tim Cook is the boss. You may get lucky. He wanted to double down on secrecy and every leak was accurate. Irrespective on tracking status 99.99% will get on launch day. During previous launches people tried to release hold, pickup early etc., nothing worked. These are processed by UPS logistics within Foxconn factory, so I guess they know how to prevent early delivery.
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So 2,000(ish) will get it early/late
 
PBF said:
Yup, same here. But unlike OP, I'm not gonna call UPS lest they change the status.

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Did you order from AT&T or Apple.

What did you select to search?

Package
Freight
Mail innovations?

What was your reference number? Your phone number or order number?!?
 
boshii said:
We have the same departure scan. Are you in GA?
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Nope, Fresno, CA. I'm betting it ends up here by tomorrow at the local facility and then I get the "Delivery Exception: Hold requested" like I did last year. Then I will get it late Friday evening because my UPS driver always comes pretty late. :mad:

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MacDogDudeFace said:
Did you order from AT&T or Apple.

What did you select to search?

Package
Freight
Mail innovations?

What was your reference number? Your phone number or order number?!?
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Apple via Apple store app on current iPhone at 12:14AM PST

Package

Phone number that is in my iTunes acct
 
armyxrays said:
Nope, Fresno, CA. I'm betting it ends up here by tomorrow at the local facility and then I get the "Delivery Exception: Hold requested" like I did last year. Then I will get it late Friday evening because my UPS driver always comes pretty late. :mad:
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I'm in Bakersfield! My driver always comes late too, its obnoxious.
 
What they COULD do (whether or not they would actually do it, I don't know), is blacklist all iPhone 5 IMEI's from the activation server until friday, so even if you got it, you wouldn't be able to use it.

Still, even if it couldn't be used, it'd be cool to get it a day or two (or three!) early
 
Score

In case the OP loses track, I think I got them all:

zachnelson $10
rsoxtim $10
rockroad55 $10
Richb718 $20
appleaddict97 $27
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TOTAL $77

:D :D :D :D :D :D
 
armyxrays said:
I am also in this situation with a phone departing a US location today and overnight shipping. I am also not holding my breath, but it would be pretty sweet. For the record my order is a 16gb Black / Slate AT&T

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mine has two departure scans from nashville as well, wonder why?!



Location Date Local Time Activity
Nashville, TN, United States 09/17/2012 3:06 P.M. Departure Scan
Nashville, TN, United States 09/16/2012 4:01 P.M. Departure Scan
09/16/2012 9:24 A.M. Origin Scan
United States 09/15/2012 12:25 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
 
DayOfChaos said:
I guess I was thinking.

How exactly is it possible for Apple to hold (as we know now) 2 MILLION iPhones. There is no way UPS can handle that load all at once. A few hundred would have to slip wouldn't you say?
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UPS delivers 15.8 million shipments per day as a whole. They can handle 2 million. Also I think FedEX is taking on the responsibility along with UPS.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/ups-statistics/
 
thekb said:
In case the OP loses track, I think I got them all:

zachnelson $10
rsoxtim $10
rockroad55 $10
Richb718 $20
appleaddict97 $27
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TOTAL $77

:D :D :D :D :D :D
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Haha, well, thanks for that. Just covered a few cases. ;)

LOL.

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ki7hy said:
UPS delivers 15.8 million shipments per day as a whole. They can handle 2 million. Also I think FedEX is taking on the responsibility along with UPS.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/ups-statistics/
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Yes, but UPS is HOLDING them. And they all get then sent out at once. That is a pretty big chunk.
 
DayOfChaos said:
I called UPS asking the status of my package, and asked when it is supposed to be delivered.

He told me it shipped next day and the package went out today (which is true according to the tracking) and should arrive tomorrow before 3PM EST.

I told him this is the iPhone 5, and asked if there were any restrictions for Friday? He said no, the restrictions are for items shipped via Standard Shipping. Mine shipped via "Holiday Shipping". I even told him on my end it says 4 days left (Friday) and he said that is weird, his system says one more day (tomorrow) and that it was in my city.

On the tracker, it is still sitting in Illinois.

He gave me his extension incase it doesn't come tomorrow. He seemed pretty positive.

Should I be pumped? Anyone else have this experience? If this is true. I AM PUMPED.
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The Apple ninjas will be hiding in the bushes outside your door, ready to pounce on the delivery man.
 
This is from UPS:
Important information for iPhone Customers
Apple has required that UPS deliver iPhone shipments to customers on and not before Friday, September 21, 2012. iPhone’s are scheduled for Friday, September 21 2012 and have a delivery commitment of the end of day.
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DayOfChaos said:
Yes, but UPS is HOLDING them. And they all get then sent out at once. That is a pretty big chunk.
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That is a big chunk but they still average 15.8 million PER DAY, regardless if they are iPhones or pianos they are capable not to mention they aren't all going through UPS. Don't let me be the jerk to rain on your parade. I hope you get it, I just don't think you will. That's all I was pointing out.

Last year FedEX handled my package and I got it on Thursday instead of Friday, trust me, I'm still hopeful. It's UPS this year for me so who knows.
 
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