as for whether TMS is around in 6 months, i hope it is. but if it isn’t i’ll just have to go back to what i was doing before (checking tracking via emails in a folder), or maybe explore one of the RSS, etc., approaches mentioned above. HOWEVER, unlike many other new sites i consider using, there’s no risk for me with TMS. at any given time, i might care about 3 or 4 shipments — but only until they’re delivered. TMS is immediately useful to me, all for just forwarding one email per package i’m interested in.

nice work, and thanx andrew!

In fact we swapped several emails with him about his account (after 10pm on a Saturday night) and answered all emails within a few minutes of receiving them, and we never said that we had a problem with the security of our email.

We actually said:

———-
Hi Tristan,

I’m not sure what that means, but I assure you that
your email address is very secure on our servers.

It is possible that the route that we use for outgoing
mail isn’t 100% secure, and I’ll look into that. I
appreciate the heads up.

Many Thanks,
-Andrew
———-

We have looked into our email paths to reassure ourselves that everything is 100% secure and haven’t found any issues – everything is totally secure.

I’m sorry that ‘photoTristan’ felt the need to post his comment before we had the chance to do anything (he posted this about 10 minutes after we emailed him the above!).

The Techcrunch mention has added many 100s of new users to our service and ‘photoTristan’ is our only unhappy customer – we’ve had dozens of emails and comments saying how useful and convenient TrackMyShipments is.

-Andrew

So I contacted them and they stated: “the route that we use for outgoing
mail isn’t 100% secure, and I’ll look into that.”

Given that their service is based upon them email you status updates, I would avoid them unless you don’t care about getting a boat load of new spam every hour.

Also – forget the TOS BS. Everyone understands that 2.0 is about communication freedom and the old timer at UPS in 2002 is probably tending his vegetable patch now and muttering oaths…..

joe
diamondrings411.com

A company called “iping” was doing this back in 2002 and was forced to cease and desist by UPS.

1) An ad-sense based site completely removes the user’s bank account from the business model, so traffic (and therefor profit) are based entirely on usefulness.

2) It’s useful.

To answer the question in the post, “although I can’t help that wonder exactly how many people have soo many packages on the way that they need a centralized management service for them.” – I plan on using it a lot, and I never have more than 1 or 2 packages being shipped to me simultaneously. The main thing convenience for me here isn’t so much multiple simultaneous trackers, but multiple company trackers ON ONE SITE. I can ditch all my fedex/usps/ups/hong kong air tracking bookmarks, and replace them all with that one. I won’t have to look up an email to remember how my next package is shipping so I can go to the corresponding tracker website. Just go to this site.

It’s kind of like putting feeds in Google Reader – Even if you don’t read all your feeds all the time, it’s still handy to only have one destination address to get all the information you’re looking for.

Duncan..go back to school and get a real degree that has some usefulness.

Russel: Yes, there are other tracking services out there – TMS is for those who don’t know what RSS feeds are and who don’t have time for lots of cutting&pasting.

Matt & Simon: re EBAY – We track incoming and outgoing shipments.

Dave: You can enter shipments ‘by hand’ – just send an email to track@trackmyshipments.com with the shipping company’s name (eg USPS) and ‘tracking XXXXXX’ (where XXXXXX is the tracking number) in the body of the email. We’ll add this tip to the FAQs and Help Pages. Many thanks.

Morgan & Matt & Startup News: Thank you. Yes, TMS is supposed to be easy and useful – I’m trying to solve a problem that I’ve had for many years, it’s as simple as that. Old chinese proverb: “Solve people’s problem now, money later”

Many thanks to everyone for trying out trackmyshipments.

-Andrew
http://www.trac...myshipments.com

There is not wrong with reading about a company like this .. You have to give the little guy a chance ..

1) I think this may violate TOS agreements with shippers
2) You need to be able to manually input tracking #’s. I don’t always get an e-mail with the tracking #. (Ex: sometimes you have to login to the site to get the tracking info)

Re: money

It’s main business based on Email, Google Adsense could not do much help on Money.

http://isnoop.net/tracking/