How To Find Out Who Shipped A Package

How to rails your Amazon bundle in real time

The holidays are right around the corner and if you've been taking advantage of Amazon'southward terminal-infinitesimal deals, here'southward a quick fob to help you find out when yous order volition make it.

Amazon Map Tracking is a handy feature that lets you lot see where your Amazon commitment is in real fourth dimension. Certain, the USPS and UPS already offer tracking info, only Amazon Map Tracking is dissimilar in that it tin can even provide a map that pinpoints where your commuter is and how many more stops are left before your bundle arrives.

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The tool is available via the Amazon mobile app. Simply boot it upwards and admission your orders. When you choose to find out where your club is, if the feature is available, you'll see a map and the ability to track your bundle in existent time. You can keep coming dorsum to the app to see where the bundle is.

Alternatively, you can access Amazon Map Tracking by clicking the "Rails Package" link from your Amazon business relationship or by clicking "Rail Packet" from your shipment confirmation e-mail service.

Now, before you lot showtime combing through the app to search for packages, in that location are some caveats to keep in mind.

For one, the characteristic isn't available on any packages that are being shipped through traditional carriers, like UPS, FedEX, or the U.S. Postal Service. Instead, you lot'll just be able to track packages that are shipped via a dedicated Amazon vehicle.

Amazon has unveiled a multifariousness of new technologies to improve deliveries, including options to take packages delivered in your home or even your auto torso. And as it tries to build out its logistics network to rely less on traditional carriers, those efforts volition only expand.

Don Reisinger is a communications strategist, consultant, and copywriter who has as well written for many leading technology and business publications including CNET, Fortune Magazine and The New York Times, too as Tom's Guide.