iPhone 12 Pro Max stuck in Clearance in Progress for more than 8 days

I placed my order on November 18 through Apple.com and I got to know from UPS site, order has been shipped on November 21 with the delivery date on November 25 and then got pushed to November 30.. On November 22, status got updated to Clearance in Progress and scheduled delivery date has been removed. Today (Nov 30) when I reached out to UPS to check why customs clearance wasn't yet completed, they informed me "customs in China has not provided the authorization to export the package, this has been clear at customs in the US but we have not received the confirmation for the customs in China" and asked me to reach out to Apple to know why customs has not provided the authorization yet as others has received this phone from same shipper. Tried reaching out to Apple support team couple of time and wasn't able to talk to anyone.


I'm wondering if apple lags in sharing shipping updates to customer as well as sharing proper documentation with customs. People who ordered after Nov 19th, has received their phones 3 to 4 days. Can anyone from Apple let me know what can be done for this issue? I guess best option is to cancel my order as Apple doesn't caring helping their customers.

Posted on Nov 30, 2020 11:18 PM

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Dec 5, 2020 7:51 AM in response to Kevin6591

After 13 days of sitting with Clearance in Progress, today status updated to Departed to Facility.. Not sure why it went back to facility again with a note of package delayed in transit and delivery will be rescheduled. This year Apple’s treatment to their consumers is bad and this is making consumers to switch other devices. Specialist wasn’t helping at all. Yesterday after reaching out to Apple specialist, they asked me to wait till Dec 18. Ordered on Nov 18 with delivery date of Nov 30.

Dec 5, 2020 10:15 AM in response to deepakkj

My order seems stuck in 'Clearance in Progress': Brokerage released the package. It will be processed through a clearing agency before final release to UPS

Its been 2 days now, no movement. Believe it’s still stuck in CHINA, no location update in UPS tracking.

Apple website says it will arrive on 10 Dec ! There is no delivery date provided by UPS(in their website)

How much time it takes for clearance process, and reach US and het it delivered to Halethorpe, MD

Does anyone experience this before? Pls assist

Dec 5, 2020 4:28 PM in response to saikat88

My status has also changed. My phone was in "Clearance in Progress" since Nov 23. Now it says "In

Transit" Delivery delayed. When I talked to UPS early in the week I was

told my phone was in Kentucky. When I checked delivery status today it says

"as of 12/5/20 it is in ZhengZhou, China. That's where my phone was on

11/21/20. When I talked to Apple agent on Wed (Dec 2nd) she said if they sent a

new phone it would be from the US not China. So, bottom line I don't know if

this phone in China is a new phone being sent, or if it's the origional phone and was

never was in Kentucky, or the current UPS status is not correct??????????

Neither Apple or UPS support take calls on weekends so I guess I'll set where

the status is on Monday.

 



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