annathyst | (no subject)

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Great idea of the day for anyone who works for a courier company (UPS/Fedex/etc):

Allow users to set up accounts on your site. Allow users to enter tracking numbers for packages they are interested in. Generate per-user RSS feeds for those packages.

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Even better.. have the system automagically setup an RSS feed for packages sent to or from their listed address.

They need to learn how to deliver packages first ;)

UPS==owned.

UPS has at least the first two thirds of that going. I'd imagine I could find a suggestion email address somewhere or something. But that's a cool idea. ^_^

What I do like about the UPS website is that you can track packages without having to sign up for an account on their site.

I'm not proposing to get rid of that functionality.

My proposed use case is this:

- I sign up for an account with, say, UPS.
- I add the RSS feed, say, http://www.ups.com/users/teferi/packages.xml to my aggregator.
- When I get the tracking number for a package, I log in to UPS's website and add that package to the list of packages I'm interested in.
- UPS provides status updates to all the packages I'm interested in via RSS (clearing packages after they're delivered, of course)

I think this works better than per-package RSS feeds, because it means I don't have to add a new feed every time I'm concerned with a new package.

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