New iPad was shipped last night.

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ILikeTobacco

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Got an email last night that my preordered iPad was shipped last night. Anyone else? Expected delivery date is the 16th.

In case anyone is wondering where they are shipping from:

Chengdu, China 03/09/2012 3:15 P.M Arrival Scan

EPZ, China 03/09/2012 2:41 P.M. Departure Scan

03/09/2012 4:51 A.M Origin Scan

China 03/09/2012 1:13 A.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS

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Got the confirmations for both of mine too. I think this also happened with the latest iPhone where the tracking number was sent early, but the shipping company orchestrates it so that it won't arrive until the actual launch day (16th).

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ILikeTobacco

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Not sure I get the week shipment time. :/ It took my 27-inch iMac less than three days to reach Amsterdam from China.

My stuff are going all the way to Oklahoma. I order tons of RC airplane stuff that comes from the east coast and it usually takes 3 to 4 days to arrive. Assuming the time period is the same, that gives it 4 days to get to the mainland and 3 days to get to my door step.

Side note: Still waiting on my Apple TV to ship.

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Assuming the time period is the same, that gives it 4 days to get to the mainland and 3 days to get to my door step.

Which I find quite long. Like I said it took my iMac about three days to reach Amsterdam door-to-door after its status changed to "shipped". It originated from some Chinese city/town as well and went to Shanghai first.

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ILikeTobacco

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Which I find quite long. Like I said it took my iMac about three days to reach Amsterdam door-to-door after its status changed to "shipped". It originated from some Chinese city/town as well and went to Shanghai first.

The last 500 miles of the trip are driven to get to my house. Being in Amsterdam, which has a international airport, they can fly it to the shipping facilities in your city. 3 days to get it to your city actually makes sense because when I ordered a MacBook Pro 2 years ago, it went through Amsterdam. Jump the ocean from there in a day. 2 more days to drive it.

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This is common of Apple preorders. You will get notice because lets be real, they are processing shipments of probably close to a million iPads, so as the tracking numbers trickle out you will get an email. Apple will lock the carriers from delivering the units early though, so don't get your hopes up of an early delivery. They will all deliver on the 16th next week.

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.Neo

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The last 500 miles of the trip are driven to get to my house. Being in Amsterdam, which has a international airport, they can fly it to the shipping facilities in your city. 3 days to get it to your city actually makes sense because when I ordered a MacBook Pro 2 years ago, it went through Amsterdam. Jump the ocean from there in a day. 2 more days to drive it.

Except it didn't flew directly to Amsterdam. It landed somewhere in Germany > went to the city of Eindhoven (South of the Netherlands) by road and was then driven further to a warehouse in West Amsterdam to be delivered from there. So far I haven't had a single package that flew directly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. My guess is the airport is simply too expensive for packages that are actually delivered in driving distance from it. Most cargo goes through Eindhoven and/or Germany. Kinda ironic. :p

PS Why do people post iOS device related stuff in the Mac Discussion & Support forum?

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Mines been shipped but can't seem to track it...anyone else able to track theirs yet?

(courier is TNT for me btw)

Mine is sitting in a warehouse in Middletown, PA and waiting to be overnighted to me here in Erie, PA (most likely on Thursday). So close, yet so far away! :s lol

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winlonghorn

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Mine's at a Fedex location in my suburb lol. The delivery guy was here this morning dropping something off and wanted to make sure I'd be home then - should've asked if he could've brought it for me!

Wow! I don't know. If mine was here in Erie already, I would be knocking on FedEx's door every day until they gave it to me. lol :)

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Yep, mine's in the same warehouse, and I'm down in Richmond, Virginia. Must just be an east coast thing. :p

Most likely. They are making sure that they can easily deliver all of the east coast shipments in an efficient manner, so they chose that warehouse. :)

Guess the US tracking is working well...UK one is crap.

I've tried tracking both international and domestic and both consignment number and customer reference on TNT's site and nothing.. :(

Sorry to hear that. They should hire some better developers for the tracking tools I guess. :s

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