IPad Air Screen Flexing

I have an iPad Air that I picked up on the first day that they were available from an Apple store.  This is the first iPad that I have had and I noticed something as I was using it recently.  If you apply some pressure around the screen/glass it bows down as if there is a hollow space beneath it.  Since this is the first iPad that I have owned I do not know if this is something that is common across the board with them or not.
I am just wondering if this is a defect or something that I should be worried about.

There are various other threads on this issue. For more reading and feedback, see these:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5515024?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5526617?tstart=0

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