According to the United States Postal Service 2014 Postal Report, 363,300 mail pieces are processed each minute. Most packages reach their destination without a hitch.
However, there is the risk that a package will be lost or misplaced as it makes its way from its origin to its destination. When the package must reach its destination, it makes a great deal of sense to track the package via tracking numbers (tracking codes). A store that can pack n ship can help out.
We can feel a world of stress when a package doesn’t make it. Worse, it puts us in an unfortunate position that results in lost money and upset feelings. Rather than shouting expletives or raising your cortisol levels, just get a number for that next important package that absolutely, positively, necessarily must reach its destination.
In this introduction to tracking codes, we’ll answer: (1) what is a tracking (code) number, (2) how to get the number to use for tracking (3) how the tracking codes work.
What is a number that you use to track a package?
It is a number is a carrier assigns a package with a unique number that helps monitor the package along various key points between the package origin and package destination.
The tracking code helps protect your package in two key ways: location and value. The uncertainty of where a package is can cause uneasy feelings. Did it make it on time? Did it reach its destination? Did it get lost in the shuffle? How will the lost package affect me and the receipt? To ease these questions your packages unique number provides information of where the package is.
If you want to track your package ask for this number. Numbers that you use to track with can be used on items of with varying degrees of financial value. It pays to have a the number that you use to track your package in order to avoid the headache and wallet-aches of a package not reaching its destination.
How does the tracking process work?
The tracking code has a matching scanner code that gets scanned at key points to track the package current location. When a package arrives to a key point, the tracking code is scanned and a brief entry states where the package is and the time it arrived to a key points. Key points could be a warehouse, state shipping center, city shipping center, return center, and several more.
Each shipping company has its own website page where you can enter your unique number. Here are the tracking pages for the top US shipping companies:
How do you setup the tracking number?
When send your package, you’ll be asked to fill out a form that asks for basic information from both sender and receiver of the package.
Requesting your specific number so that you can track your package is as easy as checking a box or telling your shipping attendee to include pricing for this service.
Once your pakcage is ready to be shippped, the attendant with affix a label with the scanning code.
Horror Story:
I remember like it was yesterday. My excitement about going to the pool got the best of me for just a few seconds--- enough for me to drop my cell phone into the water. A few days later, my cell phone provider confirmed that the water damage was irreversibly damaged. The cell phone insurance required that I send in my cell phone to a return center.
Without much thought, I checked the box for tracking number. After I received my new phone, I thought everything was fine. Months went by, I had long forgotten of the water damage incident when I was notified that my returned cell phone package didn’t make it to the cell phone return center. I had thrown away the receipt along with number on it.
I made my way to the store that sent it for me, and fortunately for me they still had my tracking number. I gave it to the return department, and in an instant my stress and frustration melted away. I was given credit for returning the cell phone, and I avoided hundreds in fees. Having and finding that track number was a life saver.The pack n send store came to my rescue.
At one point or another, we’ve all sent a package back to the original sender. Tracking codes allow us to have certainty of where a package is. It also helps us protect the value of the package by ensuring it reaches its destination. The next time you need to pack and send a package back, give yourself the added confidence that your package will arrive just fine by getting a tracking number.
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