Have to track a few delivery a year. Maybe 10-15. need notification feature. That’s pretty much.
Parcel and Deliveries are paid 
I receive 4-10 deliveries a month. I tried Parcel and Delveries, but found them to be overkill, especially as there’s pretty much nothing I can do between me placing the order and when they’re delivered at our front door.
I know this probably isn’t what you’re looking for, but I simply flag emails which are ordered (I also do this for event tickets, booked hotels, travel tickets…) and check in when I feel it’s necessary.
I get text messages and email messages with updates.
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Parcel is like $3 per YEAR, so that made it negligible for me. I have used it for many years.
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The author of Parcel silently raised the price; it’s €4,99/year now.
(I’m still a subscriber, for now)
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+1 for Parcel. It’s worth its annual price, which is still negligible. It also has a pretty good Amazon integration.
Given the amount of work that goes into parcel tracking apps (which is not apparent at first) and the fact that shipping companies are making it increasingly difficult to access their data except on their website (they want you to use their apps, and usually, there are no APIs whatsoever), it’s unlikely someone is going to bother with creating and updating a free app, especially as there needs to be a backend to provide notifications (which incurs cost). The team behind ParcelTrack, for example, gave up, and the quality of Deliveries deteriorated a while back as well.
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You are right. I received an email from Apple that starting 23 Jan 2025, the subscription will increase.
One thing about Parcel dev - he’s very responsive when a tracking didn’t work and he will fix it at his end. There’s tons of local deliveries companies that has been mushrooming here and from China, so he’s actively working to get them identified in Parcel. For that, I don’t mind if he raised $1 or $2/YEAR. Just him answering my emails and fixing one or two deliveries in a few months is worth that.
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+1 for Parcel. The only way you can get parcel tracking for free is to install the proprietary apps for all the different parcel companies, or track via their web sites, which opens up a whole world of cookies, cross-site tracking and less than subtle inducements to upsell and re-sell to you.
I don’t NEED a parcel tracking app, but Parcel is convenient: everything in one place, respectful notifications and about as reliable as it can be and cheap as chips.
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Parcel Does not cost much and works very well.
Actually, Parcel is free so long as you never track more than 3 packages at a time. Install it, do not do any in-app purchase, and be sure to delete any packages after they are delivered. It will refuse to allow you to add a forth package, but works just fine with the 3 or less. At a minimum, this will give you an opportunity to determine if it is worth paying for.
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Your profile is hidden, so I’m not sure where you are located, but for those of us in the USA,
USPS has an app.
UPS has an app.
FedEx has an app.
They all have notifications.
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It is free but without notifications, which is what I wanted. don’t want to open and track to check. Push vs pull
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And the USPS also offers Informed Delivery
“Start your mornings with a preview of your day’s USPS® mail and packages with Informed Delivery® notifications”
- Get Daily Digest emails that preview your mail and packages scheduled to arrive soon.
- See images of your incoming letter-sized mail (grayscale, address side only
- Track and manage your packages in one convenient place.
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I’m in the US.
Agree, I just didn’t want to install 5 different apps, or, also not add email/phone to each tracking number for notifications.
I’m debating to get Parcel since clearly so many people are vouching for it. The only thing is subscription
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I understand. I signed up for Informed Delivery because my mail is delivered to a cluster box (multi tenant mailbox) and sometimes I get someone else’s main. So I like to know what I’m supposed to get each day. 
I buy so much from companies like Walmart and Amazon that I rarely need to track deliveries. They keep me so well informed that I frequently know what time my order will arrive.
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Another vote for Parcel. $5 per year is essentially free. And it automatically pulls Amazon orders in. The only minor nits I have, only one Amazon account is possible, so I have to choose between my personal and my business account. And I wish I could just click on the order number or the carrier name to open the carrier web page rather than going through the menu or Cmd-Shift-T. But besides that I have zero issues, and it’s functionality is fantastic.
If you have several devices, install Parcel on each and log into different Amazon accounts. The notifications will work across devices from multiple Amazon accounts as you are still logged into the same Parcel account.
Clever idea! Will try it right away.
Everyone should sign up for Informed Delivery. If you ever have an issue with your box or delivery, having the account makes it way easier to fix. A friend recently went through this when the carrier somehow thought he stopped living at his house, and didn’t have a USPS account. The scanned previews are gravy (I only look when I’m expecting something important.)
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I have multiple Amazon accounts configured in Parcel, but each for a different store/country (Amazon has several disjunct “stores” in the EU).
Maybe the limitation is “one per store/country”?
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Yes, while Parcel allows multiple accounts, the limit is one Amazon account per country, so if you have a personal and a business account on the same Amazon country store, which is likely, you need to use the workaround I posted above, with two Parcel instances on two devices checking separate accounts. Notifications then eventually sync across devices.
