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Track-and-trace courier service

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Track-and-trace courier service

A package sent by courier can now be tracked via internet at every stage of its journey. Here David Pereto, a courier for the international courier firm FedEx (formerly Federal Express) uses a barcode reader to record the unique track-and-trace number on a package as it leaves his depot.

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Tim Shoebridge, Mail and couriers – Couriers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23076/track-and-trace-courier-service (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tim Shoebridge, published 12 April 2010.