“If you’re a UPS My Choice member,
now you can follow incoming
deliveries as they make the journey
to your house. In fact, with the new
Follow My Delivery feature, you can
virtually watch your eligible UPS®
Air and UPS Worldwide Express®
packages arrive at your front door.”
Uh oh… I think a lot of Berserkers are going to be stalking their drivers!
Great feature! There have been times I’ve missed delivery and went looking for the UPS truck. Or waited at home for delivery not knowing when driver would show up.
Agree. Very nice feature. Better than the 4 hour timeline to have to be home.
WTF is a UPS My Choice member?
Already a UPS My Choice member, but can’t really find any information on the website about this particular feature.
Yeah, most valuable will be if you just missed and want to see after driver has left . . .
Check out the link in my original post. In the emails UPS sends about your delivery, there will now be a “Follow My Delivery” button you can click to take you to the live tracking.
BTW, you can do this with FedEx and USPS as well. I get emails all the time telling me that I have a package on the way or has been delivered. Most delivery people here just leave the package on my doorstep without knocking or ringing the bell. I get an email telling me the package has been delivered so I can get it ASAP.
Does it show you what the planned route is, or just where the truck is at the moment? Does it alert you when the truck is within some distance? Just curious.
Where do you see that? Everything I see is that it is free.
Oops, my mistake. That’s for the Premium version. Reading too fast!
This could result in the very rare “pre-Pobega”, if the driver was having lunch at a steakhouse.
This appears to be more real-time. FedEx and USPS tell you the last location the package was scanned. IME, that means some time early in the morning on the day of delivery, so you have no idea if it will be there at 9am or 6pm (other than for “usual” delivery times). This appears to show you how close the truck is, although presumably it doesn’t provide Uber- or NextBus-like predictions of how soon it will be there following its expected route.
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As far as I can tell, this doesn’t work for UPS Ground packages (which is all I have inbound at the moment, so I can’t try it yet).
Correct. Only works when packages are sent using a UPS “premium” service. I would assume that would mean air service, not ground or 3-day.
