Yesterday, Verizon customers started getting emails letting them know that their pre-ordered HTC 10 smartphones had shipped. This had quite a few folks miffed because HTC had promised customers that if they pre-ordered through HTC, their phones would ship first. Obviously it didn't quite work out that way.
Despite that (or perhaps because of it), HTC started shipping out their pre-orders late yesterday and started letting the customers know. While they technically hadn't shipped out "before" any of the carriers, as HTC promised, at least they tried to make up for the scheduling error by shipping out the same day as others.
Here's our dedicated HTC 10 section for further discussion: HTC 10 (Formerly the HTC One M10)
Source: Twitter - HTC