Starting around 3PM CST this past Thursday, April 21 and extending through about 6PM CST on Saturday, April 23, TrackThePack was inaccessible. TrackThePack’s primary service provider is Heroku. Heroku is built on top of Amazon EC2 which, at the risk of dumbing it down way too much, is a “cloud-based” web host. The “cloud” is an entirely different post, but ultimately...

We’ve just added support for LaserShip package tracking. There’s a little online store you may have heard of called Amazon.com that frequently uses LaserShip for regional shipments, so this has been requested pretty frequently. So, go ahead and start tracking those LaserShip packages!

This week we launched TrackThePack: Pro, our new subscription service for TrackThePack.com power users. Pro currently gives you these extra features: Unlimited tracks (Instead of 5 per month) Access to full archive of every package you’ve tracked (Instead of just a few) Forward tracking emails from multiple addresses (Instead of one) Receive optional notifications for all status updates...

Now that 2010 has come to a close, we thought we’d take a look at some of the interesting stats from the past year. All of these stats are based only on data from 2010. Packages tracked: 413,222 Our best year since we launched back in 2007. We’re doing about quadruple the number of package tracks per day as we were in 2009. Christmas is, as you’d guess, the busiest month of the...

This feature has been a long time coming and easily the most requested feature. We’ve been testing it over the past few weeks and so far it’s working beautifully. I’m proud to announce the ability to submit tracking numbers via email. That means all of those “Your order has shipped” emails with tracking numbers can just be forwarded to us and we’ll...