Google is including bundle monitoring options to Gmail, which ought to make it simpler to see the place your orders are at a look when you scroll via your emails. In a blog post on Wednesday, the corporate says you’ll begin seeing “a simple, helpful view of your package tracking and delivery information right in your inbox” within the subsequent few weeks.

Gmail will present you the supply date on the checklist merchandise for any delivery e mail, making it so that you don’t have to really open the e-mail and click on a monitoring hyperlink to determine when you must anticipate the bundle. If you do go into the e-mail, although, you’ll see a card with extra detailed information. At the second, it appears as if the characteristic shall be opt-in — when it turns into obtainable, you’ll be capable of flip it on from a notification that exhibits up in your inbox or via settings.

Google says Gmail may also be capable of notify you when a bundle has been delayed and produce the order e mail to the highest of your inbox. That characteristic appears to be coming later, although, because the submit says it’ll roll out “in the coming months.”

The options will work with “most major U.S. shipping carriers,” however there’s one elephant within the room: Amazon. The retailer’s cargo notification emails don’t embrace monitoring data and even inform you what merchandise have shipped (maybe as a result of the corporate didn’t need Google to have the ability to monitor what you got from it and use that information for promoting).

Google spokesperson Madison Veld informed The Verge that Amazon’s e mail format implies that Gmail gained’t be capable of present monitoring information for it, saying that the characteristic shall be obtainable “for participating merchants” and that “if a tracking number is not included in the merchant’s order email, the package tracking feature won’t be available.”

That’s not distinctive to Google —there’s a historical past with different bundle supply apps struggling to keep up with Amazon — but it surely does imply that you just gained’t be capable of fully depend on Gmail to maintain monitor of your objects. Still, the capabilities Google is including needs to be helpful for individuals who don’t essentially want the facility of a devoted bundle monitoring app (although these do nonetheless have the benefit of displaying simply your packages as a substitute of placing that data between all the opposite emails you get).