Hi, not at this stage, sorry. Would like to though, just need to find the time.

It was a bit of a case of "we can't please everyone". iCloud was investigated, but due to some early decisions made when the app was first developed (before iCloud existed), there was significant work involved in making Posted work with iCloud (basically converting the database technology). 

In addition, choosing iCloud would close off the possibility of ever doing an Android or web-based system and using the same synching platform. A web-based system is already available for Posted, this would not have been possible if iCloud was used.

Facebook and Twitter were also looked at, and the first version of sync was using Facebook for authentication. But then there were way too many complaints from anti-Facebook people. 

So in the end, a custom account seemed the only way to not introduce barriers for people. It is a simple and free sign up process. And once setup, you will barely have any knowledge that the account is running in the background.

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definitely planning to do this soon

Not sure abou this one, for the following reasons.

1) To do it requires me to know the location of every tracking event, figure out the timezone for that location, then convert according to the user's timezone. That is all possible.. EXCEPT only a small portion of the 63+ carriers we support even provide semi-decent location information for each tracking event (many don't provide any at all which would make this impossible). So the fact that it could only be done for the big names such as Fedex, UPS etc is one concern as it would lead to confusion and more questions from users.

2) I know I would get comments from people saying "Information in Posted doesn't match whats on the website". Making it a user preference would help alleviate this though.

3) I am also not comfortable with "messing" with the tracking information from the providers. In many ways, showing the times of the tracking event for the location where the parcel was makes a lot of sense. Its a logical combination of data (time, event, location) - changing one element of this (time) may not be a good idea.

Done

Do you have an example tracking number?