What I've learned about iPhone shipping

I've seen quite a few posts (and threads) about shipping times so I thought I'd just write down my own experience in case others may find it helpful.
Ordered on 7/27 and originally had a 7/20 ship & 7/23 delivery date. I started checking my status updates last weekend and noticed it had changed to 'Prepared for Shipment' on 7/10. Thus began my obsessive odyssey of rechecking the status whenever and as often as possible. Here's how it all played out; 6 days from that first status change to delivery.
Jul 16, 2010 2:52 PM ATLANTA, GA/Delivered
Jul 16, 2010 7:36 AM ATLANTA, GA/On FedEx vehicle for delivery
Jul 16, 2010 7:05 AM ATLANTA, GA/At local FedEx facility
Jul 16, 2010 5:54 AM ATLANTA, GA/At dest sort facility
Jul 16, 2010 3:56 AM MEMPHIS, TN/Departed FedEx location
Jul 16, 2010 12:04 AM MEMPHIS, TN/Arrived at FedEx location
Jul 15, 2010 3:25 PM ANCHORAGE, AK/Departed FedEx location
Jul 14, 2010 3:54 PM ANCHORAGE, AK/Int'l shipment release
Jul 14, 2010 12:41 PM ANCHORAGE, AK/Arrived at FedEx location
Jul 13, 2010 11:30 PM LANTAU ISLAND HK/At local FedEx facility
Jul 13, 2010 12:19 PM LANTAU ISLAND HK/In transit
Jul 12, 2010 8:24 PM SHENZHEN CN/Left FedEx origin facility
Jul 12, 2010 5:30 PM SHENZHEN CN/Picked up
Jul 10, 2010 6:33 PM /Shipment information sent to FedEx
The Hong Kong and Anchorage stops felt painfully long. Any status updating was very delayed; several hours after the actual event.
Learned there are different options when it comes to checking package status online.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-packageTracker-s-fedex
http://www.packagetrackr.com/
Both of those had far more 'real-time' updating on the first half of the journey - all the way to Anchorage thru 'International Shipment Release' status. Strangely, after that the Fedex site was far more real-time than the other options. Maybe that was just my case but I definitely noticed that the other options started lagging behind Fedex official tracking at that point.
Seemed a few folks didn't get theirs by the estimated delivery date and it seems the more 'sort facilities' your package has to go through after landing at a main FedEx hub (say Indianapolis or Memphis), the worse your chances. Luckily for me, Atlanta is a quick flight from Memphis and one Sort Facility between the Atlanta airport and my delivery address.
To those waiting on their phones, I will tell you it works great. Haven't had any proximity sensor or reception issues - at least not any different from my experiences with the AT&T network overall which really haven't been great. (Never had a dropped call for years while on Verizon but have always had them happen somewhat regularly on AT&T regardless of type of phone.) Of course, I've only used it for a few hours so we'll see how it goes.
I previously was using an iPhone 3G and this thing is so, so much faster. Any app responds instantaneously. And when I plug it into my Kenwood car stereo with a built-in USB port it plays music and I'm able to scan through the music just as quickly. That wasn't the case before.
Good luck all.

I ordered 2 iPhone 4's from the AT&T Premier site on July 9 (my company has an agreement with AT&T). My credit card company immediately flagged the purchase as possible fraud, so it took a day or two to clear that up. The order went to "Processing" status on the AT&T Premier site on July 12. It stayed in that status until yesterday, July 20, when it changed to a status of "Shipped" and I got an email from AT&T with the FedEx tracking number. FedEx says that the phones shipped from Texas yesterday night and are on schedule to be delivered to me in Connecticut today (July 21). That's only 8 business days and includes the screw up from my credit card company - better than I expected. The "Processing" time probably included the time it took to ship the phones from Apple's factory in China to the AT&T facility in Texas.
By the way, here's the deal I got from AT&T Premier:
$38.50 - 550 shared minute plan (1st iPhone)
$ 9.99 - Additional line (2nd iPhone)
$19.25 - 2Gb personal data (1st iPhone)
$19.25 - 2Gb personal data (2nd iPhone)
$ 0.00 - pay as you go texting

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