Do UPS, Fedex, and Post Office tracking numbers repeat?

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answer:Eventually I’m sure they do. They’re not meant to be unique forever and many of the digits carry other information, so aren’t able to be incremented. All carriers let their tracking numbers expire, so the numbers don’t mean anything after a while and I would imagine they’re eventually put back in the pool sometime after that expiration.

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