Through a UPS arrangement with 3Com, he can click on the UPS shield on the latest Palm VII handheld computer, enter a UPS tracking number and immediately learn the whereabouts of his goods.

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Have you ever found yourself obsessively checking the UPS or FedEx tracking website to see if your package finally got delivered at your doorstep?

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Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from UPS website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully.

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Henson sent the money but became suspicious when the UPS (nyse: UPS - news - people ) tracking slip said the prototype weighed less than one pound.

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The Star Tribune has reported consumers receiving tracking numbers from the retailer even though UPS has no record of the packages.

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Those seemingly untechnical UPS drivers serve as a linchpin in the company's vast electronic tracking system.

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That's why Forbes has been tracking the wealthy, the powerful, and the influential chronicling their ups and downs as a central part of our mission all these years.

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"Tracking down my previous references proved problematic since many of the companies were Internet start-ups that have gone out of business, " Spenser says.

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Satellite zoom-ups are driving the popularity of real estate upstart Zillow.com, where you can waste hours tracking down how much your neighbors paid for their homes (and what your childhood home now is worth).

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But tracking costs from one work center to another or entering shipping data for hundreds of packages before UPS arrives requires speed and reliability.

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