The fate of mail can now be traced over the Internet. Information on the passage of the parcel can be obtained directly on the website of a particular postal service, site of postal services, via RSS, e-mail or even SMS (depending on the tracking service provider), as well as using a special program. The services to determine the location of the parcel are free - having paid for the shipment, the sender also pays for the “additional service” for tracking the shipment.
Instruction manual
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Each postal item is assigned a unique number during registration (postal identifier, tracking number, air waybill, tracking number). This number is designed to track RPO - registered postal items, which include parcels. The identifier is contained on the check, which is issued to the sender upon receipt of the parcel at the post office. For postal items sent by Russian Post within the country, the tracking number consists of 14 digits, for international items it is 13-digit and is a combination of numbers and Latin letters.
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To track parcels, parcels, or registered mail sent through the Russian Post, go to the company's official website www.pochta.ru. On the main page of the site you will see the "Track" button, under which there is a window for entering the tracking number. The second option is to directly go to the page of the package tracking section at www.pochta.ru/tracking.
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Find the postal identifier on the check and enter it in the corresponding window of the site (input is made without brackets, spaces or other additional characters - only numbers). After a few seconds, a table will be displayed on the screen, which will indicate the status and current location of your mail, as well as the date and time of all operations already performed with it - receiving from the sender in the department, sending and arriving at the sorting points, and so on. All actions are subject to registration, from the delivery of the parcel to the post office and ending with its delivery to the recipient.
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If you often use the services of the Russian Post, sending or receiving registered items, you can register on the site of the postal operator. Then you do not have to re-enter the RPO numbers each time - they will be stored on the site. In addition, if you wish, you can use the service of notification of a change in the status of the parcel - every time when new data about the mailing appears in the system, a corresponding notification will be sent to the email.
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Sites of other postal services work in the same way: to determine the location of a parcel, a track number is entered in the section on tracking items, after which the history of operations is displayed. Please note that when entering international numbers, you must use the Latin keyboard layout and enter letters in upper case or in the "all uppercase" mode.
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Links to the pages of the package tracking section of several popular mail services:
DHL
EMS Russian Post
FedEx
UPS
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If you constantly monitor parcels, letters and parcels sent by different postal operators from different countries, you can use not the "company" portals, but sites that provide information about the movement of RPOs sent by different services on one page. Services such as http://edost.ru/tracking.php or http://www.track-trace.com/ allow you to track the delivery status by invoice number immediately of a number of mail services, including those listed above.
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Another convenient way to track the movement of a postal item is to register on the site Gidposhka.ru - http://gdeposylka.ru/. After completing the registration procedure, you will be able to track RPOs sent by the postal services of the USA, China, Hong Kong, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, as well as partially Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Thailand, Austria, France, Korea. The path of the mail is displayed on a special map. Parcel tracking can be done in a variety of ways. Email and RSS alerts are free. A paid service is also available for sending SMS notifications about a change in the status of a postal item.
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To track RPOs, you can also download the special Track my Packade program http://www.trackmypackage.ru/. The program provides the opportunity to receive information about RPO USPS, HK Post, Singapore Post, China Post, Royal Mail, EMS and Russian Post with minimal effort. The program is free. She "goes" to the sites of postal services, remembers the delivery status of mailings and provides information in a convenient form. You can see on one screen information about the delivery history of all your mailings at the same time and make predictions about the date of the new delivery.
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Tracking mail usually allows you to receive data on the location of the package "in real time." However, in practice, information about the status of a postal item does not always appear at the time of its registration at the post office - slight delays are possible. Therefore, if you correctly entered the tracking number of the package you just sent, but the system doesn’t see your package, just repeat the request a little later. If several days have already passed since the dispatch, but there is no information in the system, or if the status of the parcel has not changed for a long time, you must contact the post office and write a request for search. The sender must do this - until the moment of delivery it is he who is legally considered the owner of the parcel.
