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A board that watches your packages while you sleep

Four times a day, something checks every package you have out. You only look when one is stuck.

If you ship things, you know this feeling. A customer emails and asks where their order is. You go look it up. It has been sitting in a warehouse in Ohio for six days and you had no idea.

Now you are apologizing for something you could have caught on day two.

The old way is checking

Somebody opens the shipping site. Pastes a number. Reads a page. Goes back. Pastes the next one. Twenty packages later they are done, and by tomorrow the list is stale again.

Nobody does this every day. So nobody catches anything early.

The new way is being told

We built a board. Four times a day it checks every package we have in transit. It asks UPS. It asks USPS. It writes down where each one is.

Then it sorts them. Moving, delivered, and stuck.

Stuck is the only column that matters. That is the one we look at.

What stuck actually means

A package that has not moved in two days is stuck. Sometimes it is weather. Sometimes it is a bad address. Sometimes the label scanned once and then vanished into a building.

The point is not that we can fix it. Often we cannot. The point is that we know, and we can email the customer before they email us.

That one change turns an angry message into a grateful one. Same delayed package. Completely different customer.

Nobody logs in

That is the part I like most. There is no habit to build. Nothing to remember.

The board updates itself all day. If something is stuck, it says so. If nothing is stuck, the column is empty and you never think about it.

You do not need to watch your packages. You need to be told about the three that are not moving.

It takes about forty five minutes to set up and it runs on a computer that costs a few dollars a month. The full step by step is free. Join below.