The iPhone 4s was delivered this past Friday, posing a problem for Apple fanatics who work during the day. If there was no one home to sign for the newest Apple toy, then depending on the store the phone was shipped through on the delivery side, customers would have to either go to the UPS store their phone was routed through or wait until Monday, an unacceptable outcome for some 200 people who opted to drive to the Springfield UPS store Friday evening and wait in line for their phones.
At 7:45 p.m. the line was some 140 people long, and while they grumbled about the wait, and the cold, none of them seemed willing to leave. Rodney Saunders from Woodbridge became angry only after the line was divided into “Fairfax and north” and “South of Lorton” lines. “The Fairfax line sucked right into the door and they’re all coming out and they came before me! What ever happened to going in the order people arrived?” After a few minutes, though, even Saunders was chuckling that “It’s just one more example of Northern Virgina not thinking we Prince William [County] folks count.”
Several customers waited up to 75 minutes to get their phone. The iPhone 4s was released in lieu of an iPhone 5, which many customers were hoping for, but response has been massive
, especially following the death of Apple founder, Steve Jobs.
