{"id":491571,"date":"2010-03-30T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/c115840be913f23adc8c5fbcb7f680f0"},"modified":"2010-03-30T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:35:00","slug":"ipad-customs-clearance-papers-being-deliberately-withheld-by-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491571","title":{"rendered":"iPad customs clearance papers being deliberately withheld by Apple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/98206-IMG_3365_540x405.JPG\" alt=\"Apple iPad\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we all know, the iPad is set to launch this Saturday, April 3rd.&nbsp; The 3rd is also the day that online pre-orders are to be shipped out.&nbsp; Apple is notorious for placing shipping blocks on their products to avoid users receiving things early (in other words, the shipper won&#8217;t deliver the product until after the block has passed).&nbsp; Sometimes it works, and other times a few mistakenly get delivered to eager customers (who, in turn, post YouTube unboxing videos).&nbsp; Looks like Apple might have a new plan this time around.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>BGR<\/em>, the iPad is slated to land in the United States tomorrow and Thursday, and if they were under a normal shipping schedule, the first shipments would go out sometime around April 1st (Thursday).&nbsp; But the devices haven&#8217;t passed through customs clearance yet, as US Customs hasn&#8217;t received the necessary clearance papers.&nbsp; The prevailing thought here is that Apple deliberately withheld the papers to control the shipments until the delivery date.<\/p>\n<p>Sneaky, Apple.&nbsp; Very sneaky.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2010\/03\/30\/apple-purposely-withholding-customs-clearance-papers-for-ipad-shipments\/\" >BGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JuKvV3sqNQITb1M15HCgHJDGd9c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JuKvV3sqNQITb1M15HCgHJDGd9c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JuKvV3sqNQITb1M15HCgHJDGd9c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JuKvV3sqNQITb1M15HCgHJDGd9c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/K6FFwp_4c9c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the iPad is set to launch this Saturday, April 3rd.&nbsp; The 3rd is also the day that online pre-orders are to be shipped out.&nbsp; Apple is notorious for placing shipping blocks on their products to avoid users receiving things early (in other words, the shipper won&#8217;t deliver the product until after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}