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The Bangladesh Post Office runs the DMS tracker TrackParcel reads, a page headed Domestic Mail Item Tracking with a search box that asks for an Item ID. Its government site at bdpost.gov.bd lists the page in the Track and Trace menu as অভ্যন্তরীণ মেইল ট্র্যাকিং.

The same menu links a separate tracker for local events of international items and a global tracking service. TrackParcel asks neither of them, only the DMS page.

The DMS page labels its box Enter Item ID and stops at 13 characters. TrackParcel sends Bangladesh Post only an ID of two letters, then nine digits, then two letters, which is the UPU S10 layout. Its ninth digit is a check digit worked out from the eight before it.

Before anything is sent, the search box removes a pasted AWB: label, enclosing brackets, spaces, hyphens and dots, and capitalises the letters. A cleaned ID of 13 letters and digits that breaks that layout, or whose check digit does not add up, is reported as not found without a lookup.

The tracker can hold more than one booking under the same item ID, and its page shows the last one as the current booking. TrackParcel reads only that booking, so scans from an older booking of the ID are left out. Each scan carries a date written day, month and year, a time, a branch and a status code that the page turns into words. The feed runs oldest first, and TrackParcel lists the scans newest first.

Branch-entered remarks are kept only in four places: the office an item was forwarded to, a branch's action after a failed delivery, a rollback reason or a bag note. TrackParcel drops any remark that could be contact details: an email-style at sign, a link or five or more digits. It never requests the booking address, the delivery images or the booking receipt the page links.

For an item ID with no record, the DMS tracker answers No information found for the ID, and TrackParcel reports the item as not found. It says the same, without contacting Bangladesh Post, when an ID of 13 letters and digits fails the layout or the check digit.

A maintenance page, a refused lookup or an answer in an unfamiliar form is reported as the tracker being unavailable or as a failed lookup, never as not found. If a correctly typed ID still finds nothing, ask the sender whether the item really went as domestic mail and whether the ID was copied in full.

Bangladesh Post's contact page, written in Bengali, gives its address as Dak Bhaban in Agargaon, Dhaka. Its first entry is আন্তর্জাতিক অনুসন্ধান কেন্দ্র, marked ট্র্যাকিং এন্ড ট্রেসিং, and it also lists the GPOs in Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna and Rajshahi.

It also lists an office marked APSO at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and carries a feedback form that accepts an attachment. Give the full 13-character item ID in any message.