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Does anybody recognise this tracking number

An Amazon trader, who only replies slowly in broken English, has give me a supposedly Royal Mail tracking number which isn't recognise and is in the wrong format.

In the one reply I've had they refer to a "courier".

So, any idea what company use this format....

Eight digits followed by two capital letters

It is a fairly low value item (but urgent and important to me) so I imagine it would be one of the cheap couriers but I have tried all the ones I can think of!

Thanks!

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  • Ozzig
    Ozzig Posts: 374 Forumite
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    In the past, when stuff has shipped from outside the country and I've no idea where it is, I've used 17track.net to do the leg work for loads of couriers for me.
    It's packed with ads :( but when you identify the courier you at least know where to go next for the tracking.
  • Undervalued
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    Ozzig said:
    In the past, when stuff has shipped from outside the country and I've no idea where it is, I've used 17track.net to do the leg work for loads of couriers for me.
    It's packed with ads :( but when you identify the courier you at least know where to go next for the tracking.
    Thanks, however given the supposedly fairly short delivery time I assume this was shipping from the UK
  • Ozzig
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    edited 23 August 2022 at 8:55AM
    Ozzig said:
    In the past, when stuff has shipped from outside the country and I've no idea where it is, I've used 17track.net to do the leg work for loads of couriers for me.
    It's packed with ads :( but when you identify the courier you at least know where to go next for the tracking.
    Thanks, however given the supposedly fairly short delivery time I assume this was shipping from the UK
    I've made that assumption myself before now as well.
    To be fair, I've received smaller packages from HK that were "UK Seller" within 7 days, which arrived faster than some actual UK sellers :smiley:  
  • molerat
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    What are those last 2 letters, might give a clue to where it is coming from. ie GB, US, CN
  • Undervalued
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    molerat said:
    What are those last 2 letters, might give a clue to where it is coming from. ie GB, US, CN
    Thanks, the last two letters are FF. So, sadly not an obvious country of origin.
  • Spoonie_Turtle
    Spoonie_Turtle Posts: 10,908 Forumite
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    Parcelsapp.com might work
  • Pembroke
    Pembroke Posts: 841 Forumite
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    Here's another one for you to try:

    https://www.4tracking.net/en/carriers/upu

    UPU is Universal Postal Union, they set the standards for postal services around the world. the only problem from your point of view is the webpage says that a tracking number is two letters, nine numbers and then 2 more letters which indicate as others have said the country of origin.
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