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I find it more surprising that A) Fedex China doesn't work on weekends, and B) Fedex routes deliveries to the western 2/3 of the US via hubs in the eastern 1/3, thereby wasting at least (assuming only one flight goes back to the west from memphis) the equivalent of 4,000 miles, i.e. tens of thousands of gallons of fossil fuel per day.
It's amazing that, given the evidence for CO2 induced global warming, this is even legal.
I think it somewhat depends on whether or not you paid for expedited shipping or normal. But typically expedited shipments at least go straight from ANC to Newark for East Coast re-distribution. Normal shipments may go through Memphis first....or may go along with the expedited ones but just sit in staging somewhere waiting their turn.
Memphis is where Fedex's headquarters are. I'd imagine this has nothing to do with apple.
I called customer relations and got this story: CTO orders all ship to the US with the same FedEx International Express IPS Method. Certain regions of the US have delivery timeframes, and the standard FedEx delivery time guarantee does not apply to Apple Shipments. The rep said if someone paid for the expedited shipping, they'd not get their Mac any sooner because they all ship the same designation. She also said she refunded my Expedited Shipping charge as the Macbook Air shouldn't have even given the option since they all ship out with the same priority.
I got $13 back
I love the smell of burning dinosaurs in the air! Smells like a new Apple release!!!!!!
FedEx Asia does work weekends. However if the plane gets into Anchorage on a Saturday night, they don't work on Sundays... hence why many saw "In Transit" and thought their plane went down since there were no scans.... lol.
FedEx is smart about their distribution... I've had packages come from China to Oakland, then overnight they send them to Memphis and back to Oakland to deliver to San Francisco the next day... It's worked for years, and FedEx are extremely efficient and reliable.
No blame to Apple, but to Fedex. IMHO, such waste of fuel should be limited. Chances are Fedex does it because it pays off for them to do this re-route, but it really doesn't pay off for the people in the long run as the oceans are acidifying and the polar caps melting. Oh well, I'm digressing away from the topic of this thread. Sorry.
oh for fu@#s sake.... go to China, where the air is so disgusting with cars that disappear into their own exhaust, or the factories WHERE YOUR MACBOOK AIR IS COMING FROM where they have smokestacks spewing smoke which makes sunsets unnatural shades of pink and orange... you'll realize that the United States is god when it comes to environmental standards... and we make up a fraction of the area and population of China... but at the end of the day, your comments are funny given the business you support (Apple) is a big contributor to the issue you're complaining about.
Hypocrisy is funny.
Just an update to my max'd out 11" Air shipping to Toronto.
LOUISVILLE, KY, US 25/10/2010 3:06 ARRIVAL SCAN
ANCHORAGE, AK, US 24/10/2010 16:39 DEPARTURE SCAN
Its in Louisville right now which means next stop should be my doorstep in Toronto. I am expecting it to arrive tomorrow. Unfortunately UPS is not providing me with a scheduled delivery date let alone time. But considering it arrived in Louisville early this morning, I am 90% sure it will arrive in Toronto at some point tomorrow.
Config: 11.6"/4GB/1.6GHz/128GB
Ordered on Oct.20 @ around 12:30 PDT.
LOUISVILLE, KY, US 25/10/2010 3:06 ARRIVAL SCAN
ANCHORAGE, AK, US 24/10/2010 16:39 DEPARTURE SCAN
Its in Louisville right now which means next stop should be my doorstep in Toronto. I am expecting it to arrive tomorrow. Unfortunately UPS is not providing me with a scheduled delivery date let alone time. But considering it arrived in Louisville early this morning, I am 90% sure it will arrive in Toronto at some point tomorrow.
Config: 11.6"/4GB/1.6GHz/128GB
Ordered on Oct.20 @ around 12:30 PDT.
The shipment we're talking about hung out in Shanghai from Friday evening until Monday, THEN took of for Anchorage.
What's smart about that?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)
I wish I bought from apple instead of my reseller friend. No tracking with resellers and worse, I'm stuck drooling.
What are friends for...
I wish I bought from apple instead of my reseller friend. No tracking with resellers and worse, I'm stuck drooling.
What are friends for...
Watch the show that was made about UPS\FedEx... you'll get it. Humans don't touch the packages. And it's not like they have people sitting in Oakland to hand-pick through the hundreds of thousands of packages. People never see the big picture. They only sort in certain facilities... so it's more cost effective to not open a container full of 99.99% non-Oakland bound packages so it can get sorted and sent to Oakland from the hub.
1) I never blamed the US.
2) Despite your claim that it does, somebody's (China's relative lack of exhaust restrictions) mistake doesn't justify somebody else's (Fedex zig-zag shipping).
I moved on, so let's not have this OT discussion within this thread (I don't mind talking about it via PM though).
The plane flies with or without your package on board. Your package is on board only because it increases the speed in which the package can get to you. If you don't understand how, look it up, there are a ton of articles about the amazing UPS and FedEx distrib models.
Koeln (cologne), De 10/25/2010 4:05 P.m. Package Data Processed By Brokerage. Waiting For Clearance / Released By Clearing Agency. Now In-transit For Delivery
Shanghai, Cn 10/25/2010 9:08 P.m. Export Scan
Koeln (cologne), De 10/25/2010 2:17 P.m. Package Data Processed By Brokerage. Waiting For Clearance
Shanghai, Cn 10/25/2010 3:35 P.m. Departure Scan
10/25/2010 2:37 P.m. Origin Scan
Cn 10/25/2010 1:04 A.m. Billing Information Received
Shanghai, Cn 10/25/2010 9:08 P.m. Export Scan
Koeln (cologne), De 10/25/2010 2:17 P.m. Package Data Processed By Brokerage. Waiting For Clearance
Shanghai, Cn 10/25/2010 3:35 P.m. Departure Scan
10/25/2010 2:37 P.m. Origin Scan
Cn 10/25/2010 1:04 A.m. Billing Information Received
Sorry if this has been covered already, but:
Apple said my delivery date (in the "Your order has shipped" e-mail) was Oct 26, but FedEx says Oct 28. Any idea which to go off of? In the past the Apple date was correct for the iPhone 4 and 3GS, but this is different because there's no "release date".
It's a 13"/256/4/2.16 for anyone in the same situation. Destination is Washington, DC.
Apple said my delivery date (in the "Your order has shipped" e-mail) was Oct 26, but FedEx says Oct 28. Any idea which to go off of? In the past the Apple date was correct for the iPhone 4 and 3GS, but this is different because there's no "release date".
It's a 13"/256/4/2.16 for anyone in the same situation. Destination is Washington, DC.
My low-end 11" + 4GB RAM is now in ANCHORAGE, AK. Still marked for 10/28 delivery date.
Edit: Destination is San Francisco.
Edit: Destination is San Francisco.
sweet, watching it over at: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/ultimate-factories/3330/Overview#tab-Videos/05351_00
It's one of the coolest shows ever... it's amazing how everything goes in and out of that place in a couple hours and for the most part things get delivered on time.