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iPad Shipping GamesI received shipping notice from Apple on Monday, March 29, 2010 06:35:22 AM AKDT. I clicked the link in the email and my iPad showed billing information received on Monday. Later in the day, it showed Shenzhen. Early on Tuesday, March 30, it showed an “exception” for Brokerage Services in Louisville, KY. Wednesday morning, it showed another package exception; that it was in the depot in Anchorage and holding. On Wednesday afternoon, I went to show a guy at work my status, and lo-and-behold, the billing information date showed April 1, and that it had not left China. Origin scan still shows 18:11, March 29 in Shenzhen. On Thursday, the information changed to show billing information received April 2, with the origin scan still March 29 at 18:11. Thursday evening, Alaska time, the update shows a departure scan on April 2, 16:10 in Guangzhou. Now, I believe, *someone* is willfully manipulating shipping / tracking data. UPS will depot the iPads, such as in Anchorage, or your local hub, to clear Customs and stage for release on the third. I don’t care mine is sitting; Apple set the expectation of receiving on April 3. The fact that it’s staged doesn’t bother me. UPS, as does FedEx, have the facilities to depot large shipments such as this… What is most disconcerting is the manipulation of the shipping data for whatever reason. The ability to do this makes ALLshipping tracking info suspect in my opinion from this point forward. If they want to “play games” and build the suspense, or for any other reason, manipulation of the data is wrong. The delivery date is out there, live with it. I strongly suspect UPS may have had a hand in this, probably more so than Apple. Can you imagine their hubs and depots being deluged by anxious recipients knowing their iPads where behind closed doors at their local UPS hub, and wanting to pick it up early? In any case, I ordered mine around 05:45 Alaska time on March 12. I guess it was too early and I didn’t realize April 3 was a Saturday. I had it delivered to the office, which isn’t open on Saturday, and so I won’t get mine until the 5th anyhow… 4 comments to iPad Shipping Games |    | |||||
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WOW! new toy is coming !!
hey, the rolex on this page shows the time n date of hk !
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Yep, new “toy” for sure… But I really think I can use it to fill a niche. Somewhere between the iPhone and MBP. I think it will be great to replace what I would do with the Acer Netbook… Time will tell…
What Rolex date and time…???
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Jim I think she means the *Flash Time Rolex app* ~ on this page just to the left. And as they do , I’m showing
But I’m showing it 15 minutes fast
EST. That’s a neat *time* application
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Jim Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 12:47
Ahhhh… Ok. I didn’t think about that. I was thinking about the last Rolex post I made, but those are set to GMT / UTC.
Yes, the Flash app on the left side shows your local date / time. It is taken from your local computer time. That being the case, you better check your clock.
Had me wondering for a minute… I thought maybe it was tied to the server time, but that was fine. I then set my clock to the “wrong” time on the Mac, and the Flash clock adjusted according to the local time.
When you think about it, it makes sense that it works off your local clock. It would be far too complicated to try and figure out where in the world you are located to then adjust the server time to reflect your correct local time.
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