Next month USPS introduces paid tracking access (paid per delivery/request) for 3rd party apps like Parcel.

What does it mean for you if you are tracking USPS deliveries in Parcel?

If you are a subscriber, you should be able to track 3-5 deliveries per month with real-time updates.

However, if you track more than that or if you are a free (or legacy premium) user, USPS deliveries will be severely delayed for you.

More details will be available next month. USPS info:

https://postalpro.usps.com/Tracking_APIAccess_Control_Changes_Release_Overview

About Parcel and its design principles

https://parcel.app/help/about-parcel.html

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If you are still forwarding emails to Parcel Email, please disable your forwarding rules.

This service has been discontinued.

For Amazon deliveries, please use the integration in the app, it is not affected.

One less fun thing to mention though.

Widgets were updated to use App Intents configurations. This *should not* have any visible effects however it is still a migration process which can affect existing widgets.

If you have problems with widgets after installing the update, you can try removing them, rebooting and then re-adding. Running a Parcel shortcut in the Shortcuts app while the app is not running can also help to complete the migration (that makes the app intents extension to run).

Some highlights from the update that was released today (version 8.1).

When you get a link for a shared delivery, you now see a preview with an option to add that delivery:

Added a new API. Now you can add deliveries to your account 😎

https://parcelapp.net/help/api-add-delivery.html