UPS Tracking Issues

[divwido]

I had written down what I thought was a UPS tracking number, but I cannot get it to work.

The number is

IZ 009 053 345 US

My questions are, is that a UPS number?  Is it wrong somehow or missing or have too many numbers?  I only have a couple UPS shipments and none of the numbers will work in tracking.   I'm trying to figure out if I wrote down the wrong thing or what.    Does anyone know how to find out make this work?

[heckofagame]

If that is UPS, you are missing some numbers

[coastaltechsolution]

Unless things have change last time I used UPS there was more digits and I don't remember there being US in the tracking number  

[silverstatetreasureboxes · Accepted solution]

@divwido 

Nope, the 1st two characters are correct and it should have a total of 18 including 1st two.

[divwido]

OK, I guess I will have to go find those labels again.    That explains what's wrong though, so thank you all.

[bashort]

This is one that I shipped today  1Z14V5270309754874

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

Should point out those 1st two characters are the number 1 and letter Z, do you have a small letter l ( L)

[cstpos]

@divwido   Yes, the #'s are usually longer. You can call UPS and ask them for the tracking # using the delivery address. It's been a while since I've had to do that, but it worked. Good Luck!

[lacemaker3]

There are some package tracking apps that will search all the couriers, to find the right one, but I wasn't able to find any courier that used a number like that.

UPS numbers usually start with the two letters IZ, but they don't have any letters after that, and they have more digits. International post office numbers often have two letters at the beginning (for the origin country) and the end (for the recipient country), but they don't use IZ for any country, possibly because UPS uses them (or UPS might have chosen those letters because they weren't used by any global post office).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_number

I think you must have made a mistake writing the tracking number down. If there were letters at the beginning and end, it was probably for an international post office, because the last two letters US mean the delivery address is in the USA.

[lacemaker3]

Correction: As @silverstatetreasureboxes  pointed, out UPS number start with the number 1, not the letter I.

In a post office tracking number, the first two letters are a service code, but they don't use the letters IZ (or any codes beginning with the letter I). With USPS, this format is usually for an international tracking number, coming from another country and being delivered to the USA. The last two letters in a post office tracking number like this are the country code.

[house*of*paws]

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@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

Should point out those 1st two characters are the number 1 and letter Z, do you have a small letter l (L)

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It could also be a capital i.  [It's definitely not a 1 (one).]

Hey @divwido 

Always copy & paste tracking #s. 

Based on my experience, I'm sure the must be a Murphy's Law that says, "Whenever you copy an 18-digit tracking number ... you are certain to omit at least one number OR reverse at least a pair".  😋

[cambriachick]

The tracking numbers are right there when you look at your sold items.

[alel_7043]

Hi, I'm facing same issue, Can you please guide me?