Tracking

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.

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

Numbers that are not S10

Plenty of what India Post hands out is not a 13-character consignment number, and searching for the wrong kind of identifier is the usual reason a lookup comes back empty:

Electronic money orders: e-MO articles are tracked by a purely numeric identifier rather than an S10 string — aggregators consistently report it as 18 digits, though India Post does not publish the format on its own pages, so treat the exact length as reported rather than guaranteed. What is certain is that it will not pass an S10 check, and no amount of re-typing will make it.
A number with a digit wrong: The final digit beforeIN is computed from the eight before it, so a single transposed digit produces a string that cannot exist. Some tools reject it outright; the rest simply find nothing, which reads exactly like a missing article.

Run what you have through thetracking number checkerfirst — it validates the structure before you search. If the number is well-formed and still returns nothing,the no record found pagecovers what that outcome actually tells you, andour guide to finding the numbershows where it sits on a receipt or a parcel label.

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

This page is about coverage: which India Post services issue a number in the first place, and how to read the one you have been given. For a question about a single article — where it is, why it is being held, what to do next — India Post itself is the only party that can answer, on1800 266 6868or through itscomplaint portal.

Last reviewed: 20 August 2026. We recheck these pages when India Post changes its published information.