June 10th, 2005
sweet!
This is just nifty!
Bloglines has a feature now that lets you track a package. You enter your tracking number (UPS, FedEx, or USPS) into a particular field, and it adds it to your list of feeds to watch.
When updates happen—”package scanned” or “on truck for delivery”—they show up like new posts.
I can see this being helpful for those packages coming by slow ground service (I am currently waiting on my new bag, for instance, via UPS Ground), where constantly checking the delivery service website gets tedious. But for overnight, next-day, and the like, I imagine you’d just check on your own.
Still, nifty!
(I really like Bloglines, despite the problems they are currently having with the blogroll script. All entries are showing up with some random text next to them.)
comments
Yay! I love the package tracking feature! I’ve been using it for a while now and have found it to be very accurate and timely.
I also like the new weather feature.
Glad to see I am not the only one with “debug” problems right now.
That is really cool! I should pay attention to those update messages, shouldn’t I?