Allied Express (Australia) Tracking. Free & Online.

Allied Express describes itself as a national courier and express freight provider, with its head office in Sydney and offices in the major mainland capitals. Its FAQ adds that it subcontracts owner drivers and works through a network of agencies. Its site lists courier, taxi truck, and local and national distribution services.

This page covers the public Track your delivery box on Allied's home page. Allied keeps pickup and delivery times and scanned consignment notes for customers who sign in with a customer code and password. TrackParcel reads only the public events and the status heading.

Allied's FAQ refers to the con note number, and says a driver who finds nobody home leaves a card advising the receiver of their consignment number. Allied's own box takes either a Consignment or a Reference, together with a destination postcode.

TrackParcel submits every number as a Consignment search and does not ask for the postcode. Its search box removes a pasted label such as AWB:, any enclosing brackets, spaces and most separators (hyphens, dots, slashes, commas), then sends what remains, up to 50 characters, to Allied with no further shape check. Auto-Detect's lookups for a ten-digit number do not try Allied Express, so pick it from the carrier list.

TrackParcel opens Allied's home page for its search form, then reads the public result page for the consignment. The status comes from the heading that begins Shipment is, or from the newest event when that heading is missing.

Each event gives a heading, a date and, where Allied prints one, a place, listed newest first. Origin is the place of the oldest event. Destination stays empty until delivery, then takes the place of the delivering event, so a depot on the way never appears as where the consignment is going. Wording such as Undelivered or Delivery attempted never earns the delivered badge.

Once a number has gone to Allied, a reply with no shipment list but with not found or invalid-number wording is reported as not found. When the reply lists dated events, a heading among them that says not found never turns the consignment into a miss, and its history is kept.

An access-denied page, an error page or the search form coming back counts as Allied being unavailable. If Allied's own box also finds nothing, ask the sender to confirm the consignment number on the con note.

For an item missing from a delivery, Allied's FAQ gives a route that depends on the service: an inquiry lodged through the track your consignment function at the bottom of its home page, or, for a courier delivery, a phone call. Its contact page adds that further enquiries go through the Track & Trace page with your consignment details. When chasing a pickup, have the con note number ready.