14 DAY TRIAL // A person working with package-delivery service UPS claims to have laid her eyes on documentation that indicates something big is happening at Apple Inc.
An administrative assistant with UPS, the world's largest import-export brokerage, the tipster tells The iPhone 5 News Blog, “Recently my team and I have been getting A LOT of protocol from Apple lately, and I can tell you there is something big getting ready to happen.”
“Whether or not it’s the iPhone I’m not at liberty to say, but the paperwork has definately beefed up, and I’m positive it’s not MacBooks or iPads,” she said. “Nothing has been flown out, but they are definately [sic] getting everything in order for customs and the FCC, I can tell you that.”
This person’s job is to scan paperwork, verify the documents for customs and auditing, and upload them to servers.
She reportedly handles documentation from big business, including Intel and Apple, because their shipments come from overseas.
The source went on to explain in subsequent e-mails, “I recently came into contact with some green folders (means they go straight to Cupertino itself) with unidentified units, 14 of them to be exact, as I’ve said before I’m not at liberty to go into detail but if they’re going to headquarters I can only believe that they might be testers.”
The blog’s author pressed the UPS staffer to elaborate on the “green folders” and the “unidentified units.”
She reportedly replied in a subsequent email, “By ‘units’ I mean the documentation for them. I handle no actual products — just their documentation. Green and red folders are high level security clearance folders, instead of the usual manilla that are used. Green and red folders are faxed to Cupertino.”
The source claimed these were not shipping folders, but documentation of the shipments. These include “emails from their coporate [sic] offices to the factory, invoices etc…we then get that ready to go to customs,” the source said.
The blog in question isn’t known as a reliable source of Apple rumors, while the story itself seems sketchy. However, given the increasing interest in the developments surrounding Apple’s iPhone 5, the report is worth mentioning.