Package tracking or package logging is the process of localizing shipping containers, mail and parcel post at different points of time during sorting, warehousing, and package delivery to verify their provenance and to predict and aid delivery.
Package tracking developed historically because it provided customers information about the route of a package and the anticipated date and time of delivery.[1] This was important because mail delivery often included multiple carriers in varying environmental circumstances, which made it possible for a mail to get lost.[2][3]
- ^ Mark Esser Industry Developed Temperature Tracking Device for Packages May Have Climate Metrology Applications NIST Beat, June 7, 2011
- ^ Herbert Joyce The History of the Post Office from Its Establishment Down to 1836. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1893
- ^ Alan Holyoake, Alan Great Britain secured delivery of mail 1450-1862. The Great Britain Philatelic Society, 2012