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Hi, the China post tracking details are all in Chinese so it isn't of any use.  Any chance you can somehow provide the tracking in English.  At the China post website you can select the English version.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the official China Post tracking website is Chinese only. You probably checked on one of the few third party tracking websites that use automated translation (or for the better ones a custom database with proper translations) to display English messages. I can't just use the results of such websites (they are trying to make money with it from ads) and I currently cannot offer a translation myself (doesn't make sense with my current monetarization as all translation services are paid by volume of translated characters).

Comments

Maybe you can use the Microsoft Bing translator (free) or allow the user to enter a google API key to use google translate? That is not a perfect solution but lot better then chinese. Clicking on the row to do the translation in the web browser is not working very well.

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Thanks for the suggestions!
Please note that the Bing translation API is only free for a limited quota so that's covered by my above post.
I've put letting pro-users specify their own API key (or !optionally! selling it with my own key as a separate subscription) on my ToDo list but cannot promise you anything in the near future as there's still so much more to fix/improve.

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What about packpin?

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The app supports Packpin but the general feedback is that China Post tracking through Packpin is not as reliable as it should.