Deliveries package tracking app loses FedEx access, says blame shipping companies

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The developer of Deliveries, a package tracking app that is listed as an App Store editor's choice, has said that they are no longer able to maintain it. Deliveries relies on many different shipping companies, and without their help it's not possible for the app to continue working the way you expect.

The post was inspired by the fact that Deliveries is no longer able to track FedEx packages. If you put in a FedEx tracking number, the app doesn't display an estimated delivery date, current location, or any other information. You can open FedEx's tracking page in your browser.

The Deliveries feature that let you paste in an Amazon order link to track your package is no longer working.

Junecloud, the company that makes Deliveries, claimed in a reply to a customer on April 4th that FedEx made the decision to block third-party trackers from their platform.

FedEx is working on adding the ability to track packages from other carriers to its own app, which would make it a competitor to apps like Deliveries.

He didn't know what customers could do to track FedEx packages. If you go to an online view, you can add FedEx packages to Deliveries, but you won't see tracking information. Royal Mail and Australia Post have had this type of change before, according to its services page.

Junecloud predicts that other carriers will stop giving access to their APIs. The company says that it is likely that more services in Deliveries will no longer show tracking information directly in the app, and apologizes that those kinds of changes make the app less useful. Junecloud will do its best to make Deliveries as useful as possible.

The post raises the question of whether this change is coming for every delivery app, and if shipping companies will push people to their first party apps. Ivan Pavlov, the developer of Parcel, said in an email that some developers may be able to deal with the changes.

I believe that FedEx has limited access to their website. Deliveries stopped supporting it because it became an issue. FedEx is supported in Parcel. There is always a chance that something will change in the future.

Junecloud's post about carriers taking a hostile stance towards third-party delivery apps was supported by Pavlov. There is no guarantee that an app will always support a carrier.