Q&A for How to Track a USPS Package

You can call customer service, and by taking your name, they should be able to find what you ordered recently and tell you the location.

For Priority Mail, you may want to start tracking it after a 24-hour period of time. It takes a night for the information to enter the USPS database all while it is being carted to the intended destination and information isn't available immediately during this time period.

Bring your mail to a booth inside the post office and ask them for a delivery confirmation sticker for the parcel. Though these are now free, you have to ask them for these confirmation stickers. However, don't confuse these with those designated as "Signature Confirmation".

Go to the USPS website and enter tracking number. It should give you all the information, as well as the delivery address. You could call the customer service.

You'll find this tracking number within the barcode near the bottom of the label. Although the barcode label will start with 9(something), you will want to look a bit inside until it starts with 0#0# (these numbers will vary) and run this number through the end of the barcode.

Usually it just stays at the normal "Delivered" status. It's not like they need to reuse tracking numbers so they're probably good for quite a while.

Not all delivered packages with trackable postage require a signature upon delivery. It depends on the service and on the specifications of the person sending the package.

The return address in the upper left corner of the envelope or parcel or envelope-address should be the person who is sending you the USPS package.

You cannot do that, but you can call your local USPS to get a tracking number. This applies to a shipper and a receiver.

If you did not order it, you are legally allowed to keep it without paying for it. Consider it a gift. Alternatively, you can refuse it (if you haven't opened it) and have USPS return it to the sender. If the return address is a PO box and the package will not fit in that box, the post office will notify the boxholder that it is available for pickup at the service window.