If you know what to look for, the label can answer questions like, why did this package take so long to arrive, and who broke what's inside?

Chinese company selling faux-leather car seat covers had used unwitting woman's address as its U.S. 'return center' ...

Shipping labels don't just get a package to its destination. They can provide useful information for consumers too. Here's how to break down what's on most e-commerce package labels.

The packages reportedly arrived at her home ‘non-stop’ for about a year before Amazon picked them up this week ...

A drone could someday drop off a package that gently lands in someone’s yard thanks to a shipping label with a built in parachute. (Amazon Illustrations via USPTO) It’s a bird, it’s a plane ...

Amazon has received a patent for a shipping label that includes a built-in parachute, “to enable the delivery of packages by [unpiloted] aerial vehicles (UAVs) or other aerial vehicles.” The ...

Whether the parachute shipping label will ever grace a box full of gear from Amazon is anyone's guess, but this is certainly an interesting way to slow packages before they hit the ground. The ...

One day, your Amazon package could be dropped from the sky without any damage -- thanks to a special label. Amazon has been granted a patent for a shipping label with a built-in parachute ...

What do the barcodes do? Apart from addresses, the bulk of a shipping label is covered in bar codes, which have two major functions. They tell logistics workers how a package is going to get from ...

Shipping labels don't just get a package to its destination. They can provide useful information for consumers too. Here's how to break down what's on most e-commerce package labels.

Shipping labels don't just get a package to its destination. They can provide useful information for consumers too. Here's how to break down what's on most e-commerce package labels. Scott Ruffin ...