My wife’s Christmas gift shipped by UPS on the 8th of the month. It gets here today, the 14th. More transit time than I had expected is seen in the tracking details below.
So, what is the gift? An Apple Pro 10.5 Tablet purchased with thousands of available credit card reward points. Apparently, Apple manufactures them in China and has no inventory in the USA. Do we have to learn to read mandarin to set it up? If yes, I will use dictionary.reverso.net/english-chinese/mandarin or a similar source.
Shipment tracking is a handy service that shows details of stops it made along the way.
| Location | Date | Local Time | Activity |
| Hendersonville, NC, United States | 12/14/2017 | 9:44 A.M. | Out For Delivery Today |
| 12/14/2017 | 8:12 A.M. | Destination Scan | |
| 12/14/2017 | 7:39 A.M. | Arrival Scan | |
| Knoxville, TN, United States | 12/14/2017 | 4:00 A.M. | Departure Scan |
| Knoxville, TN, United States | 12/13/2017 | 9:14 P.M. | Arrival Scan |
| Louisville, KY, United States | 12/13/2017 | 5:14 P.M. | Departure Scan |
| 12/13/2017 | 12:50 P.M. | Import Scan | |
| Louisville, KY, United States | 12/12/2017 | 9:08 A.M. | Arrival Scan |
| Anchorage, AK, United States | 12/11/2017 | 11:13 P.M. | Departure Scan |
| 12/11/2017 | 4:01 A.M. | Arrival Scan | |
| 12/11/2017 | 2:19 A.M. | The package is awaiting clearing agency review. | |
| Incheon, Korea, Republic of | 12/11/2017 | 2:13 P.M. | Departure Scan |
| Incheon, Korea, Republic of | 12/10/2017 | 5:05 A.M. | Arrival Scan |
| Chengdu, China | 12/10/2017 | 2:14 A.M. | Departure Scan |
| Chengdu, China | 12/09/2017 | 10:49 A.M. | Export Scan |
| 12/08/2017 | 12:41 A.M. | Package is awaiting clearing agency review.
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| Chengdu, China | 12/08/2017 | 1:10 P.M. | Arrival Scan |
| EPZ, China | 12/08/2017 | 12:09 P.M. | Departure Scan |
| 12/08/2017 | 11:43 A.M. | Origin Scan | |
| China | 12/08/2017 | 9:24 P.M. (ET) | Order Processed: Ready for UPS |
Three countries, four states and thousands of miles. The world we live in today.
Yes, but isn’t it better to know than to be kept in the dark? I love having the ability to know exactly where my package has been and where it currently is . . . even if it means I don’t get it for a while. Glad to see you came over to the dark side! 🙂
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