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Carrier T-Mobile 2018 New iPhone Pre-Order Thread
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@nateatlarge We will have to keep an eye out for movement on the UPS my choice. I have ground shipping, will be interesting to see what, if any, difference that makes.
I would assume either tomorrow or Thursday. Unless Apple undermined stock for 512Gb but I wouldn't assume so. Doesn't seem like something Apple would do. I hope for all you 512Gb orders get em at launch.
How can they match up the UPS label made in Indiana to all the phones coming in to Indiana by IMEI number which is already assigned?
That seems like a hard task....
It’s interesting to me that on the Apple site it shows Apple Watch delivering my mid October if you order now. On t Mobile it shows shipping between 9/21-9/21. Seems like everyone goes through Apple and overlooks carriers. Kind of saw the same for phones too.
Because I would assume people going with Apple want the unlocked version. As you should get anyway. I guess I don't understand the need for phones to be locked anymore. When apple releases one model of each but allows the carriers to lock em. What does that tell us??
Again, take this with a grain of salt because it's a rep and usually they're given conflicting information. But here's what one rep is telling me about UPS Ground. At this point it's hard to say when we're going to get our phones but the fact that My Choice is saying Ground shipping tells me that they are indeed being shipped using Ground shipping. I would not be surprised at all if we (those of us with UPS Ground in My Choice) will be getting our phones sometime next week... I'm hopeful but just being realistic.
they can’t. what you can correlate is the departure scan timestamp with a flight departure time from IN
256gb space gray ordered at 11:59 the 13th via tmo chat. Nothing yet. Still says 9/21-9/21.
I got the add a line promo and when it initially showed up, it was from Jefferson, IN. They officially shipped today and origin scan was Louisville which makes me think these will still ship from Louisville
I just feel that, if we already have tracking numbers and planes are coming in, it would make no sense to delay shipping them. Our TMobile Order Status' say ship "by" 9/21". Hopefully they indeed ship it before hand, if wherever possible.
However if I don't see movement until Friday on my tracking number, I'd be sad.
Im in AZ, and have ground shipping. If indeed, my max was/is on one of these first few flights that have recently landed, it would make sense that they ship it immediately, by ground, which would take approx 3 days to get to me out here. So if it leaves Jeffersonville in the morning, it should arrive Friday. I can't imagine that UPS would let packages sit for days before even shipping them.
You'll get it. Nothing to be concerned about. I know it's nerve wracking this time of year, but I've been through this 5 times. I'd get concerned if you don't see any movement by Thursday late night/Friday early morning.
I have a feeling that their system is too automated for them to try and ensure all orders are here by Friday. Here are two things that I suspect to be true:
1) There is a shipping embargo until Thursday
2) T-Mo are not smart in recognizing pre-orders, they just see an order come in, print the shipping label for whatever shipping method is attached to the order and add it to the queue for things to send out
That means all that's going to happen is they're going to get the phones, slap the UPS Ground label on it without thinking and send it out on Thursday (again, without thinking about getting our phones to us on Friday) because that's all protocol. There's nothing in their system to account for mistakes in shipping methods, getting phones out for delivery day, etc.
So I have ground but when I clicked on the link for ground, it says you can expect Next Day shipping to my region even with ground shipping
https://www.ups.com/us/en/shipping/services/domestic/ground.page
I think everyone needs to calm down lol
https://www.ups.com/us/en/shipping/services/domestic/ground.page
I think everyone needs to calm down lol
I've been burned by this in the past.. Its logistics.. UPS has an obligation to deliver packages to their service guarantee.. They can, and do, let packages sit. Packages dont go on transport until they need to go to meet the delivery date. Especially when an event like this occurs. When Tmobile "upgraded" me to expedited 2nd day shipping for my iPhone 6s, UPS processed it exactly like that -- 2nd Day Air -- and it was delivered Monday. There was absolutely nothing either UPS or T-Mobile could do once the label was generated to change that.
No tracking number yet, but I did get a charge on my credit card earlier today. How about you?
But there are no delivery dates attached to anyone’s order according to UPS My Choice. We have been pre ordering iPhones for years now, UPS and Fedex have their systems down. If you already have an IMEI and a tracking number, I’ll bet money you get it in Friday.