With Verizon in my experience sometimes it ships in time to be delivered by the given date and sometimes not. In our situation I'm guessing it depends on when Apple delivers to Verizon? Also, yours and my activity could be different because I ordered over-the-phone through my business account rep. I'm counting on my rep to deliver as promised.That’s strange. My Verizon order from the morning of the 9th showed up by the morning of the 10th. It still says “Backorder”, but pretty sure that’s just like preorder. It’s on schedule to ship the 23rd. Though I wonder if it’ll be delivered on the 23rd. Haven’t ordered from a carrier in a long while.
eta: screenshot, and it says something a bit different when checking my order through chat. Pretty sure I’ll get it on the 23rd, 26th the latest.