UPS Says My New iPhone Is Almost Here — Oh Wait, They Left It Back In Korea

The black line traces the route that Clint’s phone actually took. The remaining red line is the route that UPS assumed the phone had taken until realizing that it was still sitting back in Korea.

Like lots of people who ordered their new iPhone from the Apple store, Consumerist reader Clint has been tracking the impending delivery of his new device. Over the course of the last week, it’s gone from China to South Korea to Alaska to Kentucky and was set to be delivered to Clint in Seattle today. Except UPS has bad news. The tracking info was slightly off.

As you can see from the screengrab of the tracking info below (which we’ve confirmed), Clint’s phone supposedly left the FoxConn plant in ZhengZhou, China, on Sept. 25, landing in Incheon, South Korea, on Monday and immediately flying off to Anchorage.

The next day it was in Louisville, meaning Clint should probably be playing with his new phone right now. But then he received a notice from UPS saying he won’t actually get the device until Oct. 6 because “We were unable to load the package on the plane as scheduled.”

Anyone who work at UPS or one of its competitors want to offer an explanation for how something like this could happen? Shoot us an e-mail at tips@consumerist.com.

We and Clint are assuming that his phone was part of a large shipment of devices that were being tracked under some sort of bundle number but it wasn’t until that bundle got to Louisville, where it was presumably to be broken up and parceled out to the final destinations, that someone realized it was missing some stuff.

by Chris Morran via Consumerist