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Delivery confirmation is the USPS way of tracking packages. FedEx and UPS have different systems. The USPS version uses a long number code to track packages after they have been scanned. The number may be scanned at any point along the way. Sometimes it’s scanned somewhere in the middle of the trip. Sometimes it is not scanned until it arrives at the final post office of the journey.

To get a better track on where it is, you can use the USPS personnel. If you go to them in person to get delivery confirmation put on a package, you can then ask them to scan it immediately. Without asking for this service, it often will not be scanned for days. This can make customers nervous when they can’t find their tracking number on the USPS website. I’ve even had buyers accuse me of lying when I told them that it was already sent and had delivery confirmation on it.

If you don’t want to take every package needing delivery confirmation to the post office, there are a number of home shipping programs that will do it for you. Endicia is one of them. It will create your delivery confirmation code at the same time that it prints your postage.

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