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antigeorge-9 · ‎02-13-2019

I am in the USA and I bought something from Taiwan. The item has supposedly been sent, but I cannot find any info on it and I've never seen a tracking number like this (I have altered it here of course): ID11111111111111TW. Is this number structure truly used by Taiwan? If so, why can't I find a tracker that will accept it? If they said they sent it, why isn't it in any system?

Very strange....

orangehound · ‎02-13-2019

That is the format of a UPU S10 standard tracking number ... the first 2 letters is the service, followed by the unique tracking number, and the last two letters are the country of origin (TW = Taiwan).

It may not be in any system because (a) it was never scanned in Taiwan, or (b) it has not yet shipped ... even though the seller said it was shipped.

antigeorge-9 · ‎02-13-2019

So would sites like 17Track be able to track it if it was indeed traveling? The errors I get make it sound like the number format is unheard of.

be_4101 · ‎02-13-2019

@antigeorge-9 wrote:
I am in the USA and I bought something from Taiwan. The item has supposedly been sent, but I cannot find any info on it and I've never seen a tracking number like this (I have altered it here of course): ID11111111111111TW. Is this number structure truly used by Taiwan? If so, why can't I find a tracker that will accept it? If they said they sent it, why isn't it in any system?

That's a package ID, offered by sellers to eBay as a tracking number. You'll see next to that barcode "Delivery scan event not required" when it arrives, and it's only useful to tell apart several packages when they all show up together.