La Poste Tracking. Free & Online.

The Suivre vos envois page on laposte.fr follows letters, Colissimo parcels and Chronopost items, and it works without an account. Its help pages say tracking stays online for 12 months after La Poste takes charge of an item. Outside the 45 countries tracked to delivery, its tracking ends when the item leaves France. Items arriving from abroad keep their international number ending in the origin country's code, and the French scans follow under it.

Four shapes are listed for a numéro d'envoi: a digit, a letter and 11 digits; two letters and 11 digits; two letters, nine digits and two letters; or 14 digits. A courrier suivi stamp prints a code of 13 to 15 characters beside its barcode or QR code. The avis de passage carries 11 digits down its right-hand side, and a partner number has 15 digits, or 14 digits and a letter.

The SD mention beside a number is not part of it, but TrackParcel keeps it: “SD: …” pasted in is sent with SD in front. Of all these shapes, Auto-Detect suggests La Poste only for two letters, nine digits and FR. For every other shape, including items from abroad ending in another country's code, pick it by hand.

TrackParcel reads the unified tracking (suivi unifié) on laposte.fr in French, so each event shows the carrier's own sentence. The place on each event is the country La Poste gives for it, and the result's origin is the country on the oldest event, its destination that on the newest once the item is delivered. The posting date comes from the reply's entry date.

Each scan carries its Paris offset, which TrackParcel keeps: it reads each time as Paris time, then displays it in Indian time marked IST. Events keep the reply's own sequence, newest first. A shipment La Poste marks final counts as delivered even with unfamiliar wording, unless its newest event is a return, refusal, failed attempt or delivery round.

No La Poste message is carried into the result. After TrackParcel has passed a number on, the result says not found when La Poste turns it down as unknown or invalid, or sends back no shipment or no events. A slow answer is never reported as not found.

Tracking stays online for 12 months after an item is taken in, so an older number may show nothing. Check the number on the preuve de dépôt or stamp with the sender first, then ask the Service Clients.

Tracking up to delivery is offered to 45 destination countries; for the rest, it stops when the item leaves French territory. When a partner abroad passes its own tracking number to La Poste, the tracker accepts that 15-character partner number too. On replayed items arriving from abroad, the history began with “déposé par l'expéditeur chez notre partenaire postal” in the origin country.

The tracking tool has a Corriger mon adresse button for an incomplete address, and the Service Clients can add a door code or floor without changing the address. After a fraudulent purchase, Service Clients can look at stopping the parcel. Other questions and complaints go through Nous contacter on the help pages; keep the confirmation de dépôt, which La Poste calls essential for contacting Service Clients.