So those who are getting their phones on 9/16 can't express any sort of excitement on a forum? Ok.... 
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iPhone 7/7+ Apple.com Pre-Order Thread
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Low key, i'm gonna push to get a free leather case so hard lol
I would never ask for a free case due to weather but I definitely feel complaints have merit if they clearly had knowledge it wouldn't deliver on time to West Coasters. There is no way they wouldn't have known by the time someone received a guaranteed delivery email this morning. If I don't get it tomorrow I certainly will.
West coast stuck in Taiwan are getting pushed back. Your phone is literally 2 hours from your house, you seem to be worried about it, relax, you'll get it.
??? There was a typhoon that held up shipments. This isn't on Apple nor UPS. Go yell at whatever higher power you may or may not believe in
Mine is on the Taiwant flight. It still says On Time but the scheduled delivery got switched from end of day to this. No changes made, I live in TX.
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I ordered a iPhone 7 + 256 GB Verizon phone. I live in a rural town in the Central Valley of California. The closest UPS CC that I can pick up my phone is about 40 mins away. If I schedule for a pick up at that CC it for some reason does not open up until 2:00 PM. I usually get UPS deliveries between 2:00 and 5:00 PM. Do I set it up to pick up at 2:00 then I have to drive another another 45 minutes home to set up my phone from my itunes backup on my computer. Is it worth all that driving to maybe get phone an hour or two earlier?
Import scan at 10:33AM at Louisville. Waiting for departure for the west coast. ^__^
I was actually kind of shocked when I was checking out Dulles and BWI. There is like one 747 each from Louisville in the early hours of the morning (arriving about 0600) -- so you may get lucky!
People in Taiwan and China are having their entire lives uprooted or destroyed by this typhoon, yet some in this thread are angry because they have to wait another day or two for their phone? Hell, it's possible that the worker(s) that assembled your phone was directly affected by this storm.
This thread is turning into the epitome of #firstworldproblems.
https://weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/tropical-storm-malakas-w-typhoon-sep2016
This thread is turning into the epitome of #firstworldproblems.
https://weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/tropical-storm-malakas-w-typhoon-sep2016
UPS does deliver high priority items on Saturday. iPhones surely fall into that category.
I guess I'm a monster now because I will be one of those folks too if things to don't work out tomorrow lol.
Youll have to answer this for yourself. The rough trip in driving would take some of the excitement of having my phone early and my luck, when I get home, i would see the UPS truck in my neighborhood.
Personally, I just go to my UPS CC 20 mins away or just wait an extra hour or two so they can bring it to me.
I've been at UPS almost two years as an unloader and went through training for delivery driving. Just thought I'd share some insight into the whole shipping/delivering process:
Most likely everyone's phones who have been sitting in Louisville, KY will get a departure scan sometime tonight. Most of you probably already know this, but Louisville, KY is the WorldPort hub, which processes international air and tons of volume. There's a really cool video about it on YouTube.
From there, it'll go to one of the main airports around you (this is where you'll see the first "arrival scan" for your package), and transported from there in air containers to be loaded onto bay doors at your local sort hub. Preloaders at these hubs (who typically work from 3-8 AM) will unload these air containers full of iPhones to be sorted and processed throughout the hub. I believe this is the point where you'll see an "arrival scan" and a "destination scan."
The iPhones will then be loaded onto the delivery cars, which is why you'll typically see that it's "out for delivery" around 7-8 AM. Drivers are typically dispatched around 8-8:30 AM. They have to deliver their Next Day Air to businesses first by 10:30 AM, so it's unlikely you'll have your phone delivered before then. They do their residential deliveries and pickups next, which is typically around 2-3 PM. But of course this varies based on package car volume and delivery driver.
Hope this helped in some way! I know we're all excited to get our phones.
Most likely everyone's phones who have been sitting in Louisville, KY will get a departure scan sometime tonight. Most of you probably already know this, but Louisville, KY is the WorldPort hub, which processes international air and tons of volume. There's a really cool video about it on YouTube.
From there, it'll go to one of the main airports around you (this is where you'll see the first "arrival scan" for your package), and transported from there in air containers to be loaded onto bay doors at your local sort hub. Preloaders at these hubs (who typically work from 3-8 AM) will unload these air containers full of iPhones to be sorted and processed throughout the hub. I believe this is the point where you'll see an "arrival scan" and a "destination scan."
The iPhones will then be loaded onto the delivery cars, which is why you'll typically see that it's "out for delivery" around 7-8 AM. Drivers are typically dispatched around 8-8:30 AM. They have to deliver their Next Day Air to businesses first by 10:30 AM, so it's unlikely you'll have your phone delivered before then. They do their residential deliveries and pickups next, which is typically around 2-3 PM. But of course this varies based on package car volume and delivery driver.
Hope this helped in some way! I know we're all excited to get our phones.
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What a great insightful post, thank you for this!!
Apple issued an statement that 7+(all models) and 7 jet black WILL NOT be available for pick up at stores for wal-ins only.
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So I went on flightaware.com and registered and looked up all flights leaving Louisville, and found the probable flight that my phone will be on UPS2950. It is leaving KY at 4:04 PM EDT est. and will arrive in Oakland at about 5:11 PDT est. Plenty of time to get to my local distribution hub in time for delivery tomorrow. below is screen shot of all flights leaving Louisville today.
Yes, for walk-in customers who haven't preordered and were hoping to stand in line for one. People who preordered and chose to pick up in store won't be affected. Just wanted to make this clear since your wording is a little ambiguous.
Dang. If I ever need detective work I'm going to hit y'all up...jeez, it's just a phone