Packages that are sent via courier or mail are a source of excitement, well, most of the time at least! Whether it’s your birthday or Hanukkah or Christmas or some other special holiday when you are likely to receive a gift on, there is something fun and exciting about the anticipation and the receiving of a package at your doorstep. For a college student far from home, a serviceman a long way from family and home comforts, or a sick or injured friend or relative, nothing beats the joy of knowing that your loved ones care for you and are thinking of you and what expresses this better than a care package with all sorts of goodies?

Well, when you’re sending a package that’s been created with love and so much thought, you definitely want it to not just reach its destination, but probably track its course as well! Tracking offers peace of mind to the sender and also acts as an assurance to the receiver, since both can track the package’s whereabouts using the unique set of numbers that constitute its barcode.

You can track the status and movement of a package using the code given, either online or in some cases, via the telephone. You can even sign up to receive email and/or text message notifications that will make it even easier for you to trace the package on its journey. This proves particularly helpful for when you need something on a deadline. Plus, you will get notified either through the shipping or courier company, or by the vendor in case of a purchase rather than care package, of the package’s arrival at its intended destination. Which means that you will know the moment the package has reached its destination.

This is valuable information in the case of you having to notify someone to collect the package for you in your absence, or if you are having it sent to someone (or delivered to you) at an office address, where it may have to go through a process to reach the recipient since it will most likely get delivered to the mailroom, be sorted there and then eventually either find its way to one’s desk, or else the person will get notified and be asked to collect it. The marvel of utilizing the tracking option means that you don’t have to wait you can get your hands on it immediately!