Yesterday I had the “Prepared for shipment” status on the US Apple store. Today … Got an email at 10am “Votre Commande Apple W937XXXXX a été expédiée” and on the Apple Store order status page

From the email I got: “Vous devriez recevoir votre commande à l’adresse de livraison communiquée le ou avant le 28.05.2010” that means I should have my iPad on Friday … Can’t wait !!

[update] From the Apple store tracking link: Estimated Delivery Date (Subject to change) 27 May 2010 (Subject to change)

[update 2] iPad received on the 27th May at 4:30pm 🙂