Nearly everyday something that my new HTC EVO (Sprint) phone can do makes me feel empowered and excited to have such a piece of technology in my pocket.

Last week I had a trip to Indianapolis that was going to interfere with a package being delivered to my church office. We don’t have anyone else in the church building during the day usually, so I was a bit concerned with making sure that Mr. FedEx would still deliver the package and that I could have someone come and pick it up instead of it being left outside to be trashed by the weather.

Enter, “Parcels“. After a quick search for Android apps that deal with package-tracking, I stumbled upon Parcels and with a simple touch-click was downloading and installing.

Parcels instantly allowed me to enter in my tracking information (that the shipper had previously provided me via e-mail) and “add” this package to my list of packages I wanted to track. The app provides support for tracking our major U.S. delivery services including FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, and even allows us to skip the “who” and enter in information for anything coming from Amazon.com!

Once the information was entered, Parcels immediately began tracking my package and offered to keep me posted via alerts sent directly to my phone and even allowed me to choose how often it would attempt to update the status of my package!

Because of Parcels, I was able to make my trip to Indianapolis, keep instant-track of my package and note within 10-minutes of its delivery and call and ask someone to pick it up at the door for me!

Interested in downloading Parcels for your Android OS Phone? Click here!