Trail — Package & Shipment Tracking Hub

Trail is a shipment tracking hub that consolidates packages from every major carrier into a single timeline. Users paste a tracking number, and Trail figures out the carrier, fetches the events, and presents a clean unified view rather than another tab in the browser.

Each shipment shows a sensible summary first — origin, destination, current status, and estimated delivery — followed by the full event log for the curious. Address normalisation hides the noisy granularity of carrier facility codes behind human-readable place names.

Notifications are opt-in per shipment. Trail can ping the user on out-for-delivery, delivered, or exception events without spamming them on every minor scan. Multi-package orders fan in to a single ordered timeline so a multi-item delivery still feels like one shipment.

The backend is a careful integration layer. Each carrier adapter is small, well-tested, and isolated, and a fallback web-fetch path keeps things working when an upstream API is throttled or rate-limited. The promise is simple: a tracking number in, a status answer out, every time.