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India Post Tracking: Every Service You Can Track

Enter any India Post consignment number below. If you are not sure whether your article is trackable at all, the list underneath covers every service that carries a number.

Example: EM123456789IN. Spaces and lower case are fine.

Which India Post services are tracked

A consignment number only exists where India Post records the article individually. This is the list from its own Dak Sewa app:

Speed Post
The express domestic service, scanned at each facility it passes through. Includes the 24 and 48 Speed Post variants introduced in March 2026 on metro routes.
Registered Post
Letters, packets and periodicals booked as registered articles, with a signature taken on delivery.
Registered and Insured Parcel
Tracked parcel services for heavier items. Parcels produce extra bag-handling scans that letters do not.
Business Parcel and Business Parcel COD
Bulk parcel services used by sellers and businesses, including cash-on-delivery consignments.
Value Payable articles
Articles the recipient pays for before collection, with the amount remitted back to the sender.
EMS and international items
Express Mail Service and other cross-border articles, trackable while they remain in the India Post network.
Electronic money orders
Money transfers booked at a post office, referenced by a longer numeric identifier rather than an S10 number.

Ordinary post and unregistered book post are not recorded individually and cannot be traced. If no number was issued at booking, there is nothing for any tracking tool to find.

What the consignment number tells you

Trackable India Post articles generally use the Universal Postal Union's S10 identifier: two letters, an eight-digit serial number, a single check digit, then the two-letter country code. That is 13 characters, ending in IN for articles booked in India.

The opening pair of letters indicates a service category. S10 defines these as ranges, and the specific code within a range is allocated by the national operator — India Post does not publish which code it uses for which service. Treat the range as a category, not an identification:

EA–EZ
Express items — the range Speed Post and EMS fall under
RA–RZ
Registered letter post
CA–CZ
Parcel post
LA–LZ
Tracked letter post
VA–VZ
Insured letter post

You will find detailed claims elsewhere about what each individual two-letter code means, and about a state or circle hidden in the second letter. We have not been able to trace either to an India Post or UPU source, so we do not repeat them.

Where to find your number, and how to read it

How consignment tracking updates

Each scan at a facility becomes one event on the record. Between facilities nothing is recorded, so the history you see is a series of fixed points rather than a continuous trail. Parcels typically show more events than letters, because bag handling is scanned separately.

What counts as a normal gap depends on the route and the service. A metro-to-metro Speed Post article moves through few facilities and updates often; a registered packet to a Branch Office in a remote district passes through more hands with longer silences between them.

What each status meansItem Booked through to Item Returned, one page each.Nothing has changed for daysWhen a silent record is normal, and when to chase it.No record foundWhat an empty result actually tells you.How long it should takeIndia Post's published service standards, with the source.

What this page cannot do

We can show you what India Post has recorded and explain it. We cannot change a delivery, redirect an article, release something held at customs, or settle a claim — only India Post can, on1800 266 6868 or through itscomplaint portal.

Last reviewed: . We recheck these pages when India Post changes its published information.

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