Parcel and Package Trackers

During the Covid 19 pandemic Online and Internet shopping really came of age, side hustles became full time businesses, and physical shops stayed afloat via the medium of expanding or offering online business.

The parcel delivery companies also saw a boom, with more advance tracking apps and thats the key point ‘apps’ every provider has its own app what if you could combine all your tracking needs in one app, and have the ability to add it to the calendar when its due to be delivered.

Well Deliveries and Packages, do the job and do the job well.

Deliveries

An old favourite of mine, it has an iOS / iPadOS and MacOS app - with the option to log in to a web page to track packages too.

What keeps me coming back to Deliveries is one feature I love, and thats to add the details of the package to Calendar. For me, Deliveries drops a calendar event into the family calendar, everyone knows which gadgets, car parts or dare I say it new Apple product is arriving. Once its delivered the calendar event gets a little tick, so you know its arrived.

You can sync Deliveries over iCloud so Phone, Mac and iPad can show updates, one tip here is to only have 1 device adding to calendar otherwise you’ll get multiple entries.

I’ve got the Homebridge server logged in and syncing to the calendar, doing this will also require signing in to some services like Amazon for it to update and pull the updates down.

Packages

Somewhat a new kid on the block in terms of package tracking but a very good one, I actually stumbled across it when I was purchasing Mini Discs from Bandcamp - a few of the Russian artists linked to it with their shipping notes. Where as Deliveries is somewhat limited in the delivery companies it can interact with is limited.

Packages seems to be able to update from pretty much any, including the Royal Mail. Packages would be my ultimate parcel tracker, if it only sync’ed with a calendar like Deliveries does.

Packages as a very clever auto archive feature, Carrier logos are displayed allowing quick reference and the ability to scan the barcode when adding a package you’re sending which are filtered in to their own tab.