Q: When will I get my iCloud.com email password?

I've had it a long time.

Not to sound impertinent, but my opening sentence was, "When will I get my iCloud.com email password? I cannot access my email on my new iPhone 5 until I use the icloud.com address that presumably has been assigned to me." Advising me to use my @me.com address on my iPhone isn't logical.

As a point of interest, I drove to the Apple store 20 miles away to see if they had an answer. They did not. The employee who greeted me said she had "seen" the iCloud.com addresses on a couple of other phones but knew nothing about it. Besides, she said, there is no such thing as an @icloud.com domain--the @me.com addresses were not going away so I should not worry about it. Not helpful.