subject: Tracking My Parcel Via Telephone [print this page] The most significant factor during the booking a delivery is the convenient and safe delivery of the parcel. The first thing to do by the customer is to keep a track of the clients. Tracing the parcels is especially important for the delivery business. The company should know approximately how much time; they allow delivering the parcel. This way the company will have knowledge of any problems occurring during the delivery process. The distribution logistics of the courier business makes is doable for proper delivery and accurate tracking of the package.
There are a couple ways in which to track a delivery by using a telephone. Once you make the booking, you are provided with a number unique to your package. All the information regarding the package is obtained by the courier company over phone and when you call in to get the details quoting your unique number. This is a very traditional system of tracking your packages.
With the technology of today, this phone tracking is really outdated. It is extremely expensive to uphold this kind of standard tracking. The modern courier services have updated their infrastructure. An archive is created each time you schedule a delivery. All the figures are uploaded into this file from the intermediary points wherever the parcel goes. Consequently, the courier business doesn't depend upon the telephone to update the facts. This information is uploaded directly to the archive file and it can be tracked anytime.
With the outstanding characteristics of internet, telephone tracking can be done by using the internet. The information accessible in the archive file about the parcel can be obtainable by the phone to the client. When the client calls in the company to find out about the tracking, then the system asks the client to dial the reference number. Corresponding to the number, the systems then take the information concerning the courier and give it to the clients.
The internet system can be attached to the phone line; therefore, the traditional phone tracking can be upgraded to the new internet tracking system. It provides new dimensions to the distribution logistics to courier companies with the use of Global Positioning Systems receivers. GPS is a system that offers real time information concerning the parcel. A modest electronic chip is tailored in the parcels that take its location from the satellites orbiting round the planet. This location is transmitted by internet. You can then get the real geographical position of the parcel. This information can be given to the client over the phone.
