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I usually place a FEDEX notice on my front door, to deliver anything to my neighbors, if I'm not home. FEDEX delivers by 8:00am, then comes back after 4:00pm if my neighbors aren't home. Pretty consistent delivery procedures with FEDEX in the San Francisco Bay Area.....:cool::cool::cool:
 
FedEx usually shows up as you're driving down the street. UPS shows up when you're in the middle of doing something around the house and you don't notice them until you hear the dogs barking their asses off. Or, that's how it is for me.

But it's usually, as most say between 8AM and 3PM
 
That's almost the exact same snarky comment I was going to leave, until I decided to give an actual, helpful response.

The FedEx man will show up at either the exact moment you start lathering your hair with shampoo in the shower or the exact moment you begin using loud yard equipment in your backyard.

It's a fact.

But my backyard is facing the street that the FedEx/UPS guy has to cross to come into my street.....
 
I keep reading about how people are waking up early for the fedex guy/gal. Do they really ship early in the morning around 8? Also can we just pick it up at the fedex store to avoiding waiting?
Wait for your shipping information and tracking info to appear, 'cause it might not be coming from FedEx, but from UPS.
 
I keep reading about how people are waking up early for the fedex guy/gal. Do they really ship early in the morning around 8? Also can we just pick it up at the fedex store to avoiding waiting?

I'm sorry, but these questions are getting ridiculous.

'what time does the mail run?'

we are not FedEx, we don't have your answers. there is probably a local distribution center that can DEFINITELY give you a correct answer, rather than asking a forum full of thousands of people, including myself, waiting for iphones this week.

again, i apologize, but these questions and threads are getting out of hand. :D
 
It will ship when they say it will ship. FedEx will not hold on to your package if they get it early just because Apple wants them to, they get way too many packages to be able to keep track of what to hold for how long and what not to. Especially for bulk shipments like these. Apple will ship when they want you to get it. You can easily put a hold on your package and pick it up at the FedEx terminal if it is BEFORE the van leaves for delivery or after it gets back in the evening.

Yeah, that's wrong, it clearly says on every label the delivery date. Even when you print it you can select the date you want it delivered. We ship about 90 Express pkgs a day utilizing this feature.
 
It depends on where you are. I got something from Fed Ex about an hour ago (10:45-ish EDT), but last summer when I was waiting for a duplicate iPhone to be delivered to my parents' house, the driver didn't show up until sometime like 3:30 pm or so CDT (and didn't knock, either; he just threw the box up on the porch and left. But that's a whole other rant...)

It will ship when they say it will ship. FedEx will not hold on to your package if they get it early just because Apple wants them to, they get way too many packages to be able to keep track of what to hold for how long and what not to. Especially for bulk shipments like these. Apple will ship when they want you to get it. You can easily put a hold on your package and pick it up at the FedEx terminal if it is BEFORE the van leaves for delivery or after it gets back in the evening.

Yes, they will hang onto the iPhones until the date Apple wants them to ship. They did that very thing last summer. People here were ALL up in arms about it, wanting to go pick them up early at Fed Ex, wondering if somebody'd screw up and send them out early, etc.
 
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