Apple and UPS: Delaying delivery of iPhone 3GS?

You’ve ordered the iPhone 3GS, Apple has shipped it, and UPS has picked it up and even taken it to your local branch – but that doesn’t mean you will be getting your hands on that 3GS goodness just yet.

Package Progress

It looks like Apple has unsurprisingly told UPS not to jump the gun by delivering the iPhone 3GS ahead of its official release date. The reasons are obvious, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating.

People who ordered on the Apple Store have started receiving information that their packages are being held frustratingly close to their houses, but will not be making that final leg of the journey until a “future delivery date,” presumably meaning the 18th-19th or so.

Oddly the package progress info seem to be saying the “receiver” requested the “hold for a future delivery date” though I can’t imagine too many of you would have done that purposely. Nice of Apple to shift the request to the “receiver”.

Posted on Jun 17th, 2009 by Andrew Wells in iPhone News | 4 Comments

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4 Comments to “Apple and UPS: Delaying delivery of iPhone 3GS?”

  1. on 18 Jun 2009 at 12:21 am1Dan

    My order showed the Louisville, KY message earlier today but has since updated to show it still at Anchorage (still with no delivery date).

  2. on 18 Jun 2009 at 4:24 pm2Ronnie

    My ups shipment shows that the iphone has been delivered to AT&T today this morning

  3. on 18 Jun 2009 at 9:20 pm3Kevin

    My UPS screen looks the same. I can only hope I, as the receiver, requested to receive it on the 19th.

  4. on 19 Jun 2009 at 3:28 am4Jalt

    I ordered online last June 13. I got a UPS tracking number today 6/18 saying that it shipped 6/18 but the delivery date is 6/22.

    Now why didn’t they just deliver it 6/17 so that I would receive it on 6/19?

    I think Apple simply told UPS to hold off all deliveries until 6/18 regardless of whether that would result in delayed deliveries for some people.

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