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DaRaider65

macrumors 6502
Sep 13, 2015
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Lubbock, TX
So if we assume that they won’t deliver until 3 days after arrival in the states... will they sit in Louisville, or continue to a local facility before being held?
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It’s Monday where I am...
Still Monday here too, but China on the other side of the intrnational date line
 

yg17

macrumors Pentium
Aug 1, 2004
15,028
3,003
St. Louis, MO
Has anyone received a tracking number from Apple yet?

It shows up in UPS MyChoice, but Apple still says Preparing for Shipment.

12 Pro Graphite 128GB

Last UPS scan was departure from Zhengzhou at 5:50 AM
 

noahc

macrumors regular
Oct 12, 2005
163
69
My blue 12 pro ordered in first 5 minutes and the red 12 my partner got in the first 4 hours both made the 5:50 flight
 

jercompton

macrumors 6502
Sep 16, 2016
300
204
Has anyone received a tracking number from Apple yet?

It shows up in UPS MyChoice, but Apple still says Preparing for Shipment.

12 Pro Graphite 128GB

Last UPS scan was departure from Zhengzhou at 5:50 AM
You are on the right track with many of us.

yours is probably on this one:

 

yg17

macrumors Pentium
Aug 1, 2004
15,028
3,003
St. Louis, MO
Yea status on apple.com won't change till sometime Thursday.

Huh, that's weird. With my AW6 I had a tracking number long before it ever left China.

You are on the right track with many of us.

yours is probably on this one:


Thanks! Didn't feel like reading the last 180 pages.
 
You are on the right track with many of us.

yours is probably on this one:

You will receive a notification from Apple probably one day before it's about to make a delivery to your house.
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Huh, that's weird. With my AW6 I had a tracking number long before it ever left China.



Thanks! Didn't feel like reading the last 180 pages.
we have a long flight ahead of us. Almost 6 more hours to go. There's time to read or you can get drunk with us lol
 
@Theyayarealivin, @grouch92 bought wings for the plane. I have 🍣🍕🥙🍤🍰🍹🍿🍾🍸🍷
I'll take some Cocktail snacks please.

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NotApplicable

macrumors 65816
Sep 18, 2019
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You will receive a notification from Apple probably one day before it's about to make a delivery to your house.
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we have a long flight ahead of us. Almost 6 more hours to go. There's time to read or you can get drunk with us lol
If we get shipment notifications from Apple tomorrow that would be a shock!

Wondering where in the world my Air is right about now...
 

jphall

macrumors 6502
Jul 18, 2002
415
601
Agree; it's just carrying ones that match the departure scan time of 5:50 am. Not all iPhones are coming from Zhengzhou either (there's a lot of cargo activity coming from Chengdu as well).
Last year my phone went directly from ZhengZhou to Anchorage to Louisville. Previous year had it go from ZZ on a passenger flight to Hong Kong and then on to Anchorage, etc. on a 747.

Several days after my phone arrived, I flew to Hong Kong. After a few days in China I sat at the hotel's club lounge tracking dozens of 747s as they took off for Anchorage. The next day I flew back home over the same route I watched my phone fly.

It was really cool to fly just to the south of Anchorage on our polar circle route. I looked up at the aurora and down to see the cargo flights flying in low over Cook Inlet on final approach to ANC, having watched FlightAware tracking of so many planes arriving with iPhones over the previous weeks!
 

Alohabai

macrumors regular
Oct 19, 2020
100
164
I’ve been lurking the last day or so. Finally decided to make an account to join in lol. This is my first launch day pre order being shipped to me lol. I worked at T-Mobile for 10 years too. Crazy to think this is the first time I’ve had this experience haha.

We should start a discord group too!
 
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