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Your tracking integration needs a date sanity check

Your tracking integration needs a date sanity check

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Why "Delivered" Is the Least Reliable Field in a Tracking API Response

Why "Delivered" Is the Least Reliable Field in a Tracking API Response

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Why two tracking pages disagree about the same parcel (and what it means for your integration)

Why two tracking pages disagree about the same parcel (and what it means for your integration)

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Carrier names are not identifiers: 4 rules for shipping integrations

Carrier names are not identifiers: 4 rules for shipping integrations

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Validate a UPS 1Z number before you call any tracking API - the check digit is free

Validate a UPS 1Z number before you call any tracking API - the check digit is free

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Validate tracking numbers at ingest, not at the support desk

Validate tracking numbers at ingest, not at the support desk

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Your tracking integration probably can't tell a refusal from a failed delivery - and on COD orders that matters

Your tracking integration probably can't tell a refusal from a failed delivery - and on COD orders that matters

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Don't store a tracking URL. Store the number and resolve the link at render time.

Don't store a tracking URL. Store the number and resolve the link at render time.

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Two couriers, one name: why you should key a tracking integration on number shape, not carrier name

Two couriers, one name: why you should key a tracking integration on number shape, not carrier name

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Don't localize carrier scan timestamps. You are not storing an instant.

Don't localize carrier scan timestamps. You are not storing an instant.

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Translating carrier scan text: all-or-nothing, or don't bother

Translating carrier scan text: all-or-nothing, or don't bother

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Stop showing "last updated 5 days ago" on order tracking - classify the scan instead

Stop showing "last updated 5 days ago" on order tracking - classify the scan instead

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Your "out for delivery" notification is wrong for most of your carriers

Your "out for delivery" notification is wrong for most of your carriers

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Your WISMO handler returns a status. It should return an owner.

Your WISMO handler returns a status. It should return an owner.

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The last scan is not the last mile: modelling the carrier handover in shipment tracking

The last scan is not the last mile: modelling the carrier handover in shipment tracking

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Your 'no update in 7 days' alert is firing on parcels that are fine

Your 'no update in 7 days' alert is firing on parcels that are fine

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"Label Created" is not a location: modeling the pre-transit gap in shipment tracking

"Label Created" is not a location: modeling the pre-transit gap in shipment tracking

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Why your shipment-tracking logic breaks on cross-border parcels

Why your shipment-tracking logic breaks on cross-border parcels

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Let Your AI Assistant Track Packages: A Multi-Carrier Tracking MCP Server

Let Your AI Assistant Track Packages: A Multi-Carrier Tracking MCP Server

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