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Amazon tracking shows as delievered right after dispatch?

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  • visidigi
    visidigi Posts: 6,726 Forumite
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    Hardly like we are running out of combinations of numbers and letters!

    You think? UPS 15.8 million packages a DAY. FedEx 3.4 Million Packages a day.

    Take FedEx's Numbers...

    3.4 million x 83 Days = 282.2 million shipments...
  • ThumbRemote
    ThumbRemote Posts: 4,752 Forumite
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    visidigi wrote: »
    You think? UPS 15.8 million packages a DAY. FedEx 3.4 Million Packages a day.

    Take FedEx's Numbers...

    3.4 million x 83 Days = 282.2 million shipments...

    10 numbers, 23 letters (missing I, L and O to avoid confusion).

    A 6-digit code has 1.2 billion combinations.
    A 12 digit code is off the scale.
  • visidigi
    visidigi Posts: 6,726 Forumite
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    10 numbers, 23 letters (missing I, L and O to avoid confusion).

    A 6-digit code has 1.2 billion combinations.
    A 12 digit code is off the scale.

    FedEx is numerical only - 12 digits - works out at 460 odd million - but bands of tracking numbers are stored by the customer software so that accounts for the running out of numbers.
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