Shout out to businesses that email tracking information and link to their own systems instead of the package delivery service’s tracking system. These third party tracking site plug-ins often lag behind the information provided to them by the delivery service’s site.
Special shout out to those who hide tracking information behind a required account login when they could simply provide the tracking number in the email.
Most special shout out to sites that do not allow you to know anything about a particular order unless you click through to their site and log in. It makes tracking past orders a nightmare.
May I add a post-shoutout shoutout for the ones that have >1KB worth of custom encoded data in the URL when the actual tracking number is only ~10 digits (cough8bitdocough)? 'Cause those aren’t shady at all.
Email tracking in general is cursed. I keep getting letters from a few companies because “you’re not receiving our emails.” No, I’m just blocking your 14 hidden pixels and not clicking your fucking
awstrack.meURLs.Shout out to Postmark for allowing me (as a web developer) to not spy on my users by rewriting everything as a tracking link.
Wait they send you a physical letter?
Could you tell me more about those hidden pixels? How do I block them?