So say on Friday morning an aircraft runs into a maintenance issue in Louisville and doesn't make it to the destination city for the morning sort there. If it gets to the destination late, will they just put them on some kind of "standby" truck and deliver them that way?
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Whoa I'm so far behind. I'm randomly skipping around to see what I missed!
I can't believe it, my daughter, a college student, just texted me that she dropped her 14 Pro as she was fumbling with her backpack in the parking lot and shattered the back, most especially the camera bump glass. She was going to trade it for the pink 15. She's been paying for her own phones ...so ouch. 😖
My husband had talked her out of Apple Care+. He never wants to get extended warranties. He didn't want to get one on his truck but I insisted. And good thing, as he's used the hell out of it. I wish she hadn't listened to him.
She was using a case but it was a bad fall on asphalt where there's a lot of construction debris like small rocks around.
I'm glad the regular 15 can now do 2x optical zoom. That's all she really needs for the kinds of nature photos she likes to take and can get off the expensive Pro bandwagon now.
But oh man, the timing! Fortunately she's close enough to her birthday we can just buy the new phone for her, especially since it's our fault she doesn't have Apple Care. The phone might still have insurance from our carrier, but I doubt it could be repaired in time to trade it in.
I can't believe it, my daughter, a college student, just texted me that she dropped her 14 Pro as she was fumbling with her backpack in the parking lot and shattered the back, most especially the camera bump glass. She was going to trade it for the pink 15. She's been paying for her own phones ...so ouch. 😖
My husband had talked her out of Apple Care+. He never wants to get extended warranties. He didn't want to get one on his truck but I insisted. And good thing, as he's used the hell out of it. I wish she hadn't listened to him.
She was using a case but it was a bad fall on asphalt where there's a lot of construction debris like small rocks around.
I'm glad the regular 15 can now do 2x optical zoom. That's all she really needs for the kinds of nature photos she likes to take and can get off the expensive Pro bandwagon now.
But oh man, the timing! Fortunately she's close enough to her birthday we can just buy the new phone for her, especially since it's our fault she doesn't have Apple Care. The phone might still have insurance from our carrier, but I doubt it could be repaired in time to trade it in.
Omg so is mine! I tend to celebrate in August though because we usually are too busy and scattered around in July and come together in August.
So I just went back to watch the video by John Rettinger regarding why Apple blacklisted him. Get to the point, man. Nobody has time for that! Can anyone give me a TL;DR please? Not that it’s that important.
It’s been awhile, but I remember one year I didn’t leave ZZ until Thursday US time. Made it to WorldPort on Friday mid day. Missed all the scheduled UPS flights to KDEN. Must have put it on a passenger flight or something because it had a couple crazy scans in Colorado that weren’t the usual CC scans for my area. Showed up on my doorstep that evening. Apple didn’t play.
I cracked up when they had this screen up and it was 8:02. I was like you guys are running late. But then I calmed down and remembered that the only thing that matters is that I get my phone on launch day. But it’s Wednesday and I am back to I can’t wait. Happy middle of the week to everyone!
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One of the many reasons I cringe when YouTube tries to suggest one of his videos to me. No thanks. Pass.
He also has no problem selling you snake oil sponsorships.
What year was this? I vaguely remember that problem. I for the life of me can’t remember the year. I’ve been doing yearly updates for a long time.
Very situational, I live in Telluride, CO, which, well, if it doesn't make the single contractor Swearingen Metroliner that leaves KDEN in the morning, drops off a container at KGUC, onto KMTJ and to the UPS Customer Center for loading onto a package car that has a 1.5 hr drive to even start deliveries, forget about it.
Not just physics (e.g. you're not getting another flight from KDEN to KMTJ until Monday AM), but there are literally not enough package cars and drivers to have any recovery. If it's not there by 6-7AM and on delivery vehicle by 9, you're not getting it, and you can't goto the UPS Customer Center to get it, either, because of staffing.
I suspect in larger markets the situation is better, but post-pandemic, with labor as tight as it is, I am not sure UPS (or any delivery company) has anywhere near the excess capacity for recovery situations. The package just gets punted to the next delivery day, really.
In our local area (and CO in general), UPS has been far better than FedEx. FedEx's staffing issues are, very, very bad. Our local route's FedEx driver has been driving his personal vehicle with a sicker b/c apparently his truck has been in maintenance for 2 weeks now, and, I hear they just laid off half the local drivers, who were already overworked.
Don't want to get into an off-topic/political discussion here, but what I will say, is it's interesting to see this happen yet see Fred Smith (FedEx) take home a total comp package worth over $10M and Carol Tome (UPS) do the same. But look at package car driver pay, sort associate, etc pay...the multipliers are out of control and it makes sense we see the issues we do with absolutely zero margin for error in day to day operations (nothing against management or C[whatever]s, I am an officer of a company myself, but my or my fellow CxO's don't have 100x+ multipliers to our lowest paid rank and file W2 employees, either....and we can actually manage to hire and maintain and retain staff at even our lowest entry level positions, really weird how that works...).
So what you are telling me is I didn’t miss anything 🙂
Can confirm this as well. Bummer. Time to befriend my ups driver lol
My local Apple Store has all Silicone and FineWoven cases on display so I had to blindly buy one… went with Winter Blue Silicone… not sure how I feel about Fine Woven picking up little specs of dirt, looks impossible to clean
Wow! 9/22 Delivery Date secured! That's awesome! Big day on Friday! Cheers.
You need to know about the people who can create a masterpiece of a chain of different cables. We are like a master chess player. I have built ones that make the one in the picture look like nothing. Not every one can do it. But some of us are masterpieces.
I feel attacked and offended, LOL! I'm going to start doing that to your comments and see how you feel. HAHA! I'm joking 🙃
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I’m on the front range, I didn’t know they were having such issues. Good to know for future service.
They're all getting it from UPS My Choice. Mine will be here on Friday as well and it's still preparing to ship.
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