Buying the iPhone 5. Should i preorder it from a carrier online or queue outside a store on release date?

So I have an iPhone 4 and have been waiting for the iPhone 5 to eventually come out. I want to have it on release date so just wondering what the best choice is to guarantee it on release date. Preordering it straight away on O2 website, or queue outside the O2 store on release. 

That depends on you. Do you enjoy being in a crowd chatting to other people who you don't know before the sun comes up, or would you rather just wait at home for a small brown box to be dropped off sometime that afternoon?

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    1.I can buy the Iphone 4 from the apple site and they will ship it to me?
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    2.All I have to do is pick the $25 plan and thats it?
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    3.How do you pre order? Do you have to pay a certain amount then pay on the 24th?
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