My father-in-law has given us a birthday present of offering to buy myself and my wife iphones and add us to his family plan.  We’d like to have our pre-exsisting numbers ported (we are currently with T-Mobile) into his account. 

 

The complication is that we live in Seattle and he lives in Chicago.

 

We have no plans to go home to see him any time soon, so we won’t be able to show up in a store and have things done in the usual way. 

 

Could he buy the phones online and then have them mailed to us, then we go to an AT&T or Apple store to have the numbers transfered into the account?  Would it be helpful to have my wife or myself added as people with full account access? 

 

I have so many questions, am really excited to get iphones so any help is greatly appreciated!