Idk, the "delivers X day" is merely their grammatical choice of phrasing, Apple is well known to overestimate shipping times for things. My MagSafe was delivering today but I got it yesterday morning.I'm pretty sure most of us even with 10/21 will get it on Friday. UPS will hold it until then. I don't think Apple cares much about COVID as having uniform launch schedule is much more important. Of course a few will slip through the cracks. With Samsung launch like the Note 20 Ultra, I got it early by 2 days because their shipping says "delivers BY Friday" versus Apple is "delivers Friday"