Update: Wait, what’s going on? Is Apple actually the one responsible for FedEx shipment delays? This is what we just got in our tipbox:

This is absolutely astonishing.

I’m on the phone right now with [redacted] , Customer Advocate for FedEx. She, and [redacted] , employee #[redacted] , Operations Manager at the San Jose Express delivery station, are claiming that Apple specifically requested that FedEx disregard the “Priority Overnight, delivery by 10:30am” service Apple shipped Leopard out under, and instead “DEC17″ the Apple packages, which means to deliver them by 5pm instead of the contractually-obligated 10:30am time dictated by the Priority Overnight delivery requirements.