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Why Your New iPad Won't Be Delivered Early
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I stand corrected. That's some interesting info. Very cool.
What people here don't understand is that this is how FedEx works in general. When the sort is done at the hubs, a similar process is used for all packages and those with extended delivery dates (not next day) are placed in containers or stored. While Apple might be dictating that their products are segregated at the hub level, which is unique, the overall process these devices is following is not. Go to Google maps and look at the main Fedex hub in Memphis (airport)....see all those containers all over the place outside?
The day before delivery they will be re-injected into the sort at the hub for next day and off they go.
This is also why you cannot just show up and get one. It isn't sitting on a shelf where some schmo can grab it but in an elegant, well managed clusterf@ck of packages with a high velocity of movement.
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I can tell you with 100% guarantee that this is not the case. The items are in warehouses ran by 3rd party companies that have contracts with Apple but they are not sitting in trailers. I can say anymore due to NDA. Mods here know from the past my info is true.
Also, the obvious that does not fall under my NDA. How would all the shipping labels get put on each box? This story would have to assume that somehow they got placed on them before shipping from China. Do you think Thursday nights these magical trailers are going to be opened and have all our info magically attached or are thousands of little elves standing by to add our addresses to the right boxes? It would be a logistical nightmare to save these all for Thursday night to label, separate and ship all in one night.
Also the amount of trailers this would take. The common sense fail in this story is the only thing magical happening.
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And this is hardly CONFIRMATION.
I can tell you with 100% guarantee that this is not the case. The items are in warehouses ran by 3rd party companies that have contracts with Apple but they are not sitting in trailers. I can say anymore due to NDA. Mods here know from the past my info is true.
Also, the obvious that does not fall under my NDA. How would all the shipping labels get put on each box? This story would have to assume that somehow they got placed on them before shipping from China. Do you think Thursday nights these magical trailers are going to be opened and have all our info magically attached or are thousands of little elves standing by to add our addresses to the right boxes? It would be a logistical nightmare to save these all for Thursday night to label, separate and ship all in one night.
Also the amount of trailers this would take. The common sense fail in this story is the only thing magical happening.
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And this is hardly CONFIRMATION.
That would be true if they were trucking them, but they are loading them onto the planes and flying them overnight to be on the trucks by friday morning. I know this because I work in the industry.
No. There are MANY cases where people received pre-order iPhones - including me. I got my iPhone 4 two days before the official release date.
At that point, its no longer up to Apple. It will still be delivered on the 16th, just to a different address (UPS).
Actually, yes. I believe this is exactly what happened. At least, I'm pretty sure it's what happened last year, because my iPad 2 shipped directly from China.
This year, it started in Ontario, CA. Which means Apple likely had them stockpiled there, awaiting the orders. When the order comes in, they would get labeled, and then segregated for the hold until being released tomorrow for overnight shipping.
But this story came out and claimed this BEFORE a lot of people got their shipping confirmations from Apple. So obviously someone has access to the stock in order to put the new labels on them.
This story came out on the 12th. Its listed right on the page. This story was obviously completely wrong. If it came out the 1st of March and said they were being held for a while on trucks before process, they probably would have been spot on. But every other part of their story is incorrect.