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The service became quickly popular: for UPS the number of packages tracked on the web increased from 600 a day in 1995 [9] to 3.3 million a day in 1999. [10] On-line package tracking became available for all major carrier companies, and was improved by the emergence of websites that offered consolidated tracking for different mail carriers. [11]
It is a unique ID number or code assigned to a package or parcel. The tracking number is typically printed on the shipping label as a bar code that can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader or smartphone. In the United States, some of the carriers using tracking numbers include UPS, [1] FedEx, [2] and the United States Postal Service. [3]
Special Delivery, a domestic accelerated local delivery service, was introduced on 3 March 1885 initially with a fee of 10¢ paid by a Special Delivery stamp. It was transformed into Express Mail, introduced in 1977 by Ronald B. Lee after an experimental period that started in 1970, [7] although Special Delivery was not terminated until June 8, 1997.
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The zig-zag eel (Mastacembelus armatus Scopoli, 1777 [3]), also known as the Baim, [4] tire-track, tire-track spiny-eel, freshwater spiny eel, or marbled spiny eel, [2] is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Mastacembelidae.
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Male band cusk eels lack copulatory organs. As a result, eggs are externally fertilized and kept together in gel-like clumps, which float near the surface. The juveniles are rarely seen except in two studies of multiple dusk-eel variations. One study found larvae near the surface and traveling without sibling companionship. [9]
Cutthroat eels are a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels, the only members of the suborder Synaphobranchoidei.They are found worldwide in temperate and tropical seas. [3] [4]