Okay, been lurking on this forum for a while, decided to post for the first time. Reading Ice-Capades and a few others posts, are a great education.
Anyway, just going to provide a time line of my order for people to compare with. F250, Platinum, Star White, with quite a few options was ordered on 4/20. Vin number issued 6/17. Original build date was 7/26, it is now 8/9, according to the dealer.
Also according to Ford Marketing, they can no longer see the build dates, when you call in. Last Thursday (6/8) I called them to get an update and they informed me that around two days before I called, the build dates had been grayed out on their computers and to call the my dealer. YMMV.