If you think you have one headed your way - you can call UPS (1-800-742-5877) and track a shipment, speak the tracking number and then hit 0 to talk to an agent and tell them you want to confirm the address for your package. They will tell you where it's going.
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Re: Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
#42If you think you have one headed your way - you can call UPS (1-800-742-5877) and track a shipment, speak the tracking number and then hit 0 to talk to an agent and tell them you want to confirm the address for your package. They will tell you where it's going.
I called them a moment ago and did the same thing. Unfortunately she said that their system is down for maintenance or something but it should be back up sometime in the next few hours.
Re: Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
#43If you think you have one headed your way - you can call UPS (1-800-742-5877) and track a shipment, speak the tracking number and then hit 0 to talk to an agent and tell them you want to confirm the address for your package. They will tell you where it's going.
Confirmed, this works. Sadly I'm not the one getting it. :(
Re: Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
#44GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#45it looks like half of a list. Pretty uniform distribution for zipcodes from 00000-50000, very few 50000+?
Yeah, unfortunately for me as someone who lives in a 55xxx zipcode.
Re: Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
#46GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry I mean it will be delivered on the 15th.
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Re: Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
#48Two comming to Stanford ... but I am sure 100s must have applied :(
Re: Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
#49If you think you have one headed your way - you can call UPS (1-800-742-5877) and track a shipment, speak the tracking number and then hit 0 to talk to an agent and tell them you want to confirm the address for your package. They will tell you where it's going.
I called them a moment ago and did the same thing. Unfortunately she said that their system is down for maintenance or something but it should be back up sometime in the next few hours.
Are these being shipped directly from Google? Spoke with UPS about the two going to my ZIP (neither are to me) but the lady said that it was from "Insight"
Re: Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.
#50If you think you have one headed your way - you can call UPS (1-800-742-5877) and track a shipment, speak the tracking number and then hit 0 to talk to an agent and tell them you want to confirm the address for your package. They will tell you where it's going.
I'm kinda concerned about the security angle on all of this.
You have people phoning up UPS finding out the addresses of where packages are going, and potentially writing down the address if it turns out not to be theirs.
You can see from the tracking results on UPS that UPS are leaving a lot of these on the steps of residences and thus if you setup the correct monitoring you now have the possibility of people running around to the houses of freshly delivered laptops to take them from the door step.
Additionally, where people have signed for them, their last name is listed and with the addition of the zip code from the original source this creates further concern. I've already been able to find out the identity of someone who received one who lives in my zipcode because he has an unusual last name. I just searched for their last name + zipcode on Google and could confirm he is a developer at Engine Yard.
The weak points in the chain are that UPS assumes you must be one of the authorized parties if you have a valid tracking number in hand, and so when you call up to enquire they take that as validation.
What this really comes down to is how these tracking numbers + zipcodes became public in the first place (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996623)