UPS iPad shipments under guard

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Here’s an update on the UPS iPad deliveries: we’ve been told that it will be virtually impossible to have one delivered prior to Saturday and your shipping status doesn’t mean squat. Here’s why… There are iPad shipments sitting in your local UPS location right now. Yes, they are there. Right now. The issue? Apple has hired an outside security agency to monitor all shipments from the regional distribution centers to the local hubs, and at the local hubs, the cages (where they hold the packages) are under 24/7 guard by the outside security agency. Apple did the same thing when they used FedEx for iPhone shipments, and they also had the same security company literally sleeping overnight at AT&T stores when they got iPhones the day before launch day.

Don’t worry if your tracking info still shows the package hasn’t left China, it’s probably only 10 miles from you, sitting comfortably under the watchful eyes of Top Flight security.

88 Comments
  • Riley

    A friend of mine loads boxes at the local UPS Hub and they have all been told the shipments are coming in early Friday AM on UPS freight flights, to be sorted and loaded Friday night for delivery to metro areas only on Saturday – outstate areas on Monday…

  • http://www.mtda.ca Dwight

    I’ll just wait till I can get one used at half the price.
    Actually we caint get them in Canada yet, dont know why.

  • http://none Larry Martin

    You’re slightly mistaken on FedEX and the iphone. I work for UPS. I am a p/t driver. UPS ALSO delivered the current iphone model, the 3GS. We delivered lots and lots of them. We even had a big announcement on the UPS Employee website discussing in GREAT detail the very specific agreement and contract that Apple had w/UPS on the iphone delivery.

    FedEX probably also delivered lots of them too.

  • Steve

    Big difference too is that UPS does not deliver on Saturday, at least 30 miles south from their World Hub as SDF.

  • Jason

    UPS SUCKS!!!! They “lost” my iPad. Don’t you mean it fall off the back of the trunk into someones car?

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