# How do I track a package with a "Fedex Ship Manager Label" number?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 11, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-track-a-package-with-a-fedex-ship-manager-label-number/363952 "2006-07-11T01:21:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-track-a-package-with-a-fedex-ship-manager-label-number/363952/1 "2006-07-11T01:21:53Z")

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I recently ordered a package from a company out in California that gave me a “Fedex Ship Manager Label” number for package tracking. It is 55012411000XXXX (the last four digits have been replaced with X’s).

[Fedex.com](http://Fedex.com) does not seem to recognize this is as a standard tracking number. Anyone know how I can go about tracking this thing?

It’s possible that it just hasn’t entered their database yet, but usually when that’s the case I get a message that says “Billing Information Received”, or something like that. This number just comes up as unrecognized.

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**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-track-a-package-with-a-fedex-ship-manager-label-number/363952/2 "2006-07-11T22:08:51Z")

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Most FedEx tracking numbers I’ve seen begin with a zero. Since your number has 15 digits that FedEx uses, I’d suggest substituting a 0 for the first 5 and see what happens.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-track-a-package-with-a-fedex-ship-manager-label-number/363952/3 "2006-07-11T22:52:09Z")

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Try plugging the number on its own into Google.

FWIW, packages on my FedEx account have tracking numbers that begin with a 6.

When was the package shipped? The info’s probably just not out to the public-accessible tracking system. A package that I prepared and dropped off last night is in that gray area - the number comes up in Google as a FedEx tracking number, but FedEx tells me “no information” even though I’d like to think it’s been scanned at least once, and on a truck.

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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-track-a-package-with-a-fedex-ship-manager-label-number/363952/4 "2006-07-11T23:05:45Z")

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[QUOTE=gotpasswords]

When was the package shipped? The info’s probably just not out to the public-accessible tracking system. A package that I prepared and dropped off last night is in that gray area - the number comes up in Google as a FedEx tracking number, but FedEx tells me “no information” even though I’d like to think it’s been scanned at least once, and on a truck.  
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I just checked, and it does show up now, almost 48 hours after it was actually shipped.