[Merged] iPad 3G Ship Rumors

[dandrewk]

If it's at your local Fed Ex facility before it closes, you should be able to pick it up today.

I've done this before with Fed Ex. You just need your tracking number and ID.

 

[Vinom]

So This is where it was hiding...

Who knew?

 

[leesweet]

yay, "Prepared for Shipment". Thought I'd be checking it and seeing "Not yet shipped" again..

But this dude was super-lucky and got his iPad 3G today - http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/at-least-one-lucky-fellows-3g-ipad-arrives-a-day-early/

I have a feeling some driver will be in deep doodoo over that... embargoed products are never to be delivered early.

 

[leesweet]

If it's at your local Fed Ex facility before it closes, you should be able to pick it up today.

I've done this before with Fed Ex. You just need your tracking number and ID.

This should be interesting... I'm sure we all would like someone to try this, as they should turn you down with 'no delivery of any type before Friday'.

But like the post on Engadget, I'm sure some FedEx site somewhere will have someone who doesn't read the embargo notification.

 

[leesweet]

6:00 AM on mine too. I wonder if FedEx is a little bit inundated with shipments...anyone know how many are shipping tomorrow?

This is one of the items all the analysts are waiting for... how many people waited for the 3G version, after the 300-500 whatever thousand that reserved/ordered the WiFi for the first days.

I think it will be more, since the 3G model is more useful. But who knows how many people understood the month-by-month of the 3G?

 

[K4LK]

64G. Status finally changed to "Prepared for shipment" Order placed at 4/2 12:30 PM

 

[maf2k8]

Apr 29, 2010 6:00 AM
Picked up
NASHVILLE, TN


So they were stored in TN? Not China?

 

[MiguelS]

Apr 29, 2010 6:00 AM
Picked up
NASHVILLE, TN


So they were stored in TN? Not China?

Built in China, stored locally...

makes you wonder when these were all ready?

 

[WalledMacGarden]

Got shipping email with tracking #, was in my spam folder for some reason. still no CC charge or pending? Why didn't they just charge these a few days ago? I'm not complaining though, less interest.

 

[eoblaed]

Placed my order Apr 3, 2010 at 01:44 AM PDT.

WiFi + 3G 64GB

Should have it by 4:30pm Friday.

 

[vhp3]

Tracking info...

Why is yours only 1lb?

 

[sajison]

mine has been saying prepared to send so i called apple. they said i would have it by tomorrow even tho it still says that nonsense...

 

[jameskohn]

What the heck...

I ordered my WiFi+3g iPad within minutes of being able to do so back on March 12th, but mine is still "prepared for shipment". I still expect I'll have it tomorrow as promised, and then next week I'm going to have to find something else to obsess about. 24 hours...

 

[Swampthing]

My iPad 3G 64 GB ordered 12 March @ 1048 PST... on it's merry way!!!

Sleigh bells ring... are you listenin'... I can hear it coming!

Date/Time Activity Location Details
Apr 29, 2010 2:38 PM Arrived at FedEx location NEWARK, NJ
Apr 29, 2010 9:25 AM Shipment information sent to FedEx
Apr 29, 2010 6:13 AM Picked up MIDDLETOWN, PA

 

[TraceyS/FL]

Sleigh bells ring... are you listenin'... I can hear it coming!

Date/Time Activity Location Details
Apr 29, 2010 2:38 PM Arrived at FedEx location NEWARK, NJ
Apr 29, 2010 9:25 AM Shipment information sent to FedEx
Apr 29, 2010 6:13 AM Picked up MIDDLETOWN, PA

Oh great, now i'm singing Christmas songs! LOL!!

Mine is still sitting in TN - but i'm guessing it will scan on the normal 4am flight into Orlando. God help me if it goes to Jax again like UPS mucked it up.

I'm trying to figure out if my anal fedex place would let me pick it up in the morning on the way out of town for the day.....

 

[Feeshy]

FINALLY!!!! "Prepared for shipment" on my status! I know it's not a tracking number (yet)...but all the same....

I DO believe...I do...I do...I DO....

 

[sh4ners]

getting closer to Chicago...

Apr 29, 2010 3:58 PM Arrived at FedEx locationINDIANAPOLIS, IN
Apr 29, 2010 10:00 AMLeft FedEx origin facilityMOUNT JULIET, TN
Apr 29, 2010 6:00 AMPicked upNASHVILLE, TN
Apr 29, 2010 4:27 AMShipment information sent to FedEx

 

[WalledMacGarden]

Why is yours only 1lb?

Accidentally, he is getting an iPad II


or he is getting an empty box...

 

[jeshepard]

Sleigh bells ring... are you listenin'... I can hear it coming!

Date/Time Activity Location Details
Apr 29, 2010 2:38 PM Arrived at FedEx location NEWARK, NJ
Apr 29, 2010 9:25 AM Shipment information sent to FedEx
Apr 29, 2010 6:13 AM Picked up MIDDLETOWN, PA

Mine too. The weird thing being that I'm a 2hr drive from Middletown, PA.

 

[pyrodex]

No updates here from Prepared for Shipment and I am in Atlanta, GA.

 

[AppleiPad]

Check out this thread if your order still says "Prepared for Shipment" or "Not Yet Shipped"

 

[WalledMacGarden]

If it's at your local Fed Ex facility before it closes, you should be able to pick it up today.

I've done this before with Fed Ex. You just need your tracking number and ID.

I wouldn't try this...remember he just fired an engineer for letting Woz just SEE the 3g!

The FEDEX employee will get canned and don't be surprised if the person trying this gets canned as well. LOL

Steve is watching...he's always watching...


LOL

 

[leesweet]

Check out this thread if your order still says "Prepared for Shipment" or "Not Yet Shipped"

I don't see where that thread (the email from Apple) says 'if it says 'Prepared or Not Yet Shipped, don't worry, it's okay'. It just says how to handle 'I won't be home'.

It may be over-assuming to think that's what they meant (that it means 'ignore not seeing 'Shipped').

 

[kloda]

Steve is watching...he's always watching...

To borrow from the excellent Chuck Norris joke... Steve Jobs doesn't sleep, he waits, he watches.

 

[gencooliveoil]

Same here. I live in Tampa.

Ordered 64GB WiFi + 3G iPad on Mar 12, 05:39 PDT.

All shipment travel activity is displayed in local time for the location Date/Time Activity Location Details

Apr 29, 2010 11:00 Left FedEx origin facility MOUNT JULIET, TN
Apr 29, 2010 06:00 Picked up NASHVILLE, TN
Apr 29, 2010 04:15 Shipment information sent to FedEx