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Fast Ship (EMEA) – Next Order from Apple

November7

Next MacBook ordered, different experience alltogether. Just ordered a few minutes ago and got “Fast Ship (EMEA) / Schnellversand (EMEA)” as shipping method. It seems that by selecting a single BTO/CTO Mac it is possible to skip the centralized european logistics hub in Tilburg/NL and go directly with UPS from factory door to my desktop.

I am wondering if this shipment method is more trackable than “Merge In Tnst NL Til“; at least it is a lot faster, with comparable orders I used to wait 12 days just for delivery, not including manufacturing. This is down to seven days max with “Fast ship (EMEA)”.

It pays to order the machine without any other stuff that needs to be merged in transit. Get it at your local dealer. Order global, buy local ;-)

Check out Adrian Spender’s experiences on this as well.

Update 11/10: Future looks bright :-) Just minutes ago, my next laptop has been shipped, directly with UPS, tracking and everything. And you won’t believe it, it is supposed to arrive in two days! Nice.

Update 11/12: After just three days in production (Friday, Saturday and Sunday – Apple calls them ‘workdays’ – go figure) and measly three more days for transport – the MacBook is here! For your reference this is the full UPS schedule of the package. Take care, though, the data on UPS’s site is updated with a lot of delay, sometimes more than 10h!

Package Progress
Location Date Local Time Description
UMKIRCH,
DE		 11/12/2008 7:44 A.M. IN-TRANSIT SCAN
  11/12/2008 4:41 A.M. DESTINATION SCAN
  11/12/2008 4:40 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
KOELN (COLOGNE),
DE		 11/12/2008 1:12 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
KOELN (COLOGNE),
DE		 11/11/2008 11:58 P.M. IMPORT SCAN
  11/11/2008 11:50 P.M. IMPORT SCAN
WARSAW,
PL		 11/11/2008 6:25 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
KOELN (COLOGNE),
DE		 11/11/2008 11:40 A.M. PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE / RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY. NOW IN-TRANSIT FOR DELIVERY
INCHEON,
KR		 11/11/2008 10:31 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
  11/11/2008 7:56 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
SHANGHAI,
CN		 11/11/2008 4:38 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
KOELN (COLOGNE),
DE		 11/10/2008 7:26 P.M. PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE
SHANGHAI,
CN		 11/11/2008 2:17 A.M. EXPORT SCAN
  11/11/2008 1:50 A.M. THIS SHIPMENT IS WAREHOUSED UNTIL IT IS RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY / RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY. NOW IN-TRANSIT FOR DELIVERY
  11/11/2008 1:47 A.M. THIS SHIPMENT IS WAREHOUSED UNTIL IT IS RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY
SHANGHAI,
CN		 11/10/2008 4:10 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
CN 11/10/2008 3:18 A.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED
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6 Comments to

“Fast Ship (EMEA) – Next Order from Apple”

  1. On November 7th, 2008 at 15:17 Paulo Monteiro Says:

    The 28 Oct I’ve ordered an iPod Touch, with engraving.
    It was shipped the 29 Oct – Fast Ship EMEA (EMEA is something like Europe, Midle East and Africa, I think)
    It was delivered the 30 Oct, 14:00 GMT – it was to be delivered in the morning, but someone at the DHL Center thought the address was incomplete and it was retained … :)

    So … you won’t have to wait much more longer … (I think… :) )

  2. On January 12th, 2009 at 22:12 Sebastian Says:

    Hey, sorry, if my english isn’t the best, I’m german. I found your blog with google because I searched for EMEA. I bought a MacBook witk extra RAM at the apple online store. That was Thursday. In your case, it took four days until they started shipping, was it under the week (do you say so in US?) and did you pay per credit card or per wire transfer? Thanks a lot for help. ps: your blog looks so nice =) greets Sebastian

  3. On January 15th, 2009 at 21:10 tomschlenkhoff Says:

    Hallo Sebastian,

    die Chinesen scheinen sieben Tage die Woche zu arbeiten; Es könnte also am So oder Mo mit dem Versand klappen, wenn es auch 4 Tage dauert bei Dir. Viel Glück! Ich habe per Kreditkarte bezahlt.

    Grüße, Tom

  4. On January 17th, 2009 at 17:12 Sebastian Says:

    Och, da bemüh ich mich, halbwegs lesbare englische Sätze zu formen und jetzt bekomm ich ne deutsche Antwort, Sachen gibts =)

    Laut UPS kommt es nun am Montag, echt schlimm, wie lange 10 Tage werden können, wenn man einen Apfel bestellt hat.

    Gruß Sebastian

  5. On March 16th, 2009 at 19:34 Fritz Says:

    I ordered my macbook on the 14th with a customization of 4gb Ram instead of the 2gb which is standaerd. However the estimation they gave me for delivery (when it should arrive) is the 24th-25th and that is 10 days, and I hope I don’t have to wait that long. Hopefully it shall arrive in 5 days like it has done for you…

  6. On November 13th, 2009 at 11:19 Tao Wang Says:

    Hi , i orderer the ipod nano tommorrow , but i m still student now , so i should ask do the fast ship (EMEA) can be shiped during the weekend ?

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