Tracking Number Lookup

The number came without a name

A seller pastes a string into the order notes and calls it a day. You have 1Z999AA10123456784, or 22 digits that start with 94, and no idea which site will take it. Search for tracking number and the first results want an app, an account, or a scroll past ads before they will tell you the carrier.

This page reads the shape of the number in the tab. A 1Z is UPS. TBA is Amazon Logistics. A 12-digit run is FedEx. A 22-digit 94 number is usually USPS. You get the name and a link to that carrier's own page. There is no Detect click, because the work is already done.

The app with 162,970 ratings

I ranked this third out of 1,761 in the queue, score 9.75, about five hours of work. The card pointed at AfterShip Package Tracker: 4.73 stars on 162,970 ratings, live on the App Store this sitting. 17TRACK sits at 20,778. Both are real products. Both want you in an app, and both put the long history behind a paid tier.

That is a different job from the one I have at a desk. I have a number and I want the carrier page. I do not want a dashboard of every parcel I ever bought. Bing filled in 21 completions on the tracking cluster. "tracking number" is first. "tracking number lookup" is second. I did not invent a search volume behind them. The completion count was enough to put this at three.

What the digits actually say

UPS prints 1Z plus sixteen letters and digits. FedEx Express is twelve digits, Ground is fifteen. USPS domestic labels are twenty or twenty-two digits and usually start with 94, 93, 92, 91, 90 or 82. International USPS looks like EA123456789US. DHL Express is often ten digits. DHL eCommerce starts with JD. OnTrac is a C or a D plus fourteen digits. Amazon Logistics is TBA plus a run of digits.

Some lengths collide. A 22-digit 94 number is USPS first, and FedEx SmartPost sometimes uses the same digits, so both links show up. A ten-digit number is DHL with a medium confidence, because ten digits are not a unique brand. The page would rather show two doors than pick the wrong one and hide the other.

A link, not a status feed

After you have the carrier, you are on their page. That is the honest end of this tool. I do not call a carrier API. I do not invent "in transit" from a regex. A fake status is worse than no status. If the carrier site asks you to solve a puzzle, that is their page, not mine.

Copy link writes the number into the URL. Refresh keeps it because the address bar holds it. I do not have a row for your parcel. Mixpanel and Google Analytics load with Softery.io. They see that someone opened the tool. On the first paste they get a size bucket, not the digits. On a copy they get "link". They do not get 1Z999AA10123456784.

What this page will not do

It will not show an ad. It will not ask for an account. It will not send the number to a server of mine. I shipped the carriers the card named: UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, OnTrac, plus Amazon Logistics because the ranking write-up named it and TBA is obvious. A warehouse barcode or a small regional label will not match, and the page will say so.

If you need a password that never leaves the tab, use the password generator. If you are splitting the bill that arrived with the box, use the tip and bill split. The longer version of why a 162,970 rating tracker still wants an app is The Number Had No Carrier.

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