At least three MacDailyNews readers report receiving this email yesterday or today:
To Our Valued Apple Customer:
Thank you for ordering the new Airport Express!
We are very excited about the response to this great new product! We had
planned to ship your order by July 15th. We now expect to ship your Airport
Express Base Station on or before July 23rd.
Please rest assured that we fulfill all orders in the order they are received.
If we do not hear from you prior to shipment, we will assume the revised date
is acceptable, and will ship your order.
To check the status of your order, visit http://www.apple.com/orderstatus.
When your AirPort Express Base Station ships, you will receive a Shipment
Notification via email explaining how you may track the package.
We appreciate your patience and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this
delay has caused you. Thank you for your interest in Apple products!
Sincerely,
The Apple Store Team
MacDailyNews Take: While not a huge delay, in light of recent shipping delay “issues” (caused by IBM, Hitachi, or otherwise) this doesn’t help public perception, and so we hereby repeat Steve Jobs’ own quote: “Real artists ship.”