If the letter at present, thanks to the Internet, can reach the addressee in a few seconds, then to send parcels and parcels you have to use traditional mail services.
Recently, online shopping is actively gaining momentum. Many people prefer to place an order online and get their purchase right at home, this applies to online stores with a representative office in your city. Increasingly, orders are being made from online auctions, boutiques and supermarkets in other cities and countries, sometimes it is much more profitable to buy a certain thing from a seller from another country or from a manufacturer than from a reseller. From time to time you have to order expensive clothes, equipment, cosmetics, and it is very exciting when the notice of delivery of the parcel does not come from the post office for a long time.
For the convenience of tracking the movement of parcels, the Russian Post introduced a system of tracking numbers, or postal identifiers. These numbers are assigned to any postal items and have the form of a 14-digit number. Such a code can be found in the receipt for payment of delivery, and the first 6 digits are the post office index from which you or you sent the parcel. International shipments and EMS mail are identified by a different code: it contains 4 uppercase letters (2 at the beginning of the code, 2 at the end), and 9 digits. The last two letters reflect the code of the sending country, for example, RU - Russia, US - USA, FR - France. The post office operator sticks a sticker with an identifier on the parcel, breaks the bar code, thereby entering this number into the database.
At each stage of the forwarding of the items, the mail operators enter the identification number into a single database of items. Thus, being at home, you can track the path of the parcel until the moment it is issued to the addressee. Tracking can be carried out on the website of the Russian Post or on other sites offering such a service and additional services in the form of a notification of parcel movements by e-mail or SMS. Also, for residents of Russia a free telephone number is provided by which you can find out the location of the mail: 8-800-2005-888.
