Tracking (eBay) packages from China or Hong Kong

[RealBlackStuff]

When you check Purchase History on eBay to find out where your order/package is, you run into a blind wall (literally).
After you have clicked on Tracking number: xxxxxxxxx, it will show you some tracking info, but after you click on Close,
the whole webpage becomes inaccessible!
All you can do is click on the Refresh button in your browser.

And if you click on a Tracking number from China or Hong Kong , you usually get this:

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Tracking #: LK045984653CN
Carrier: China Post

Status: ACCEPTED IN TRANSIT DELIVERED

Dispatch from Sorting Center
Oct-19-16, 14:45 PM, SHENZHEN

Posting
Oct-18-16, 20:39 PM

The same is shown for days on end!
The eBay shipping check is its useless self.

Trying USPS via: https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmA ... 45984653CN
did not show anything until yesterday!

But the Winner is: http://www.trackingcourier.com/usps-tracking
Type in (or copy/paste) your eBay or other Tracking number and you get this:

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Date & Time ........................Status of Item ..............Location

October 28, 2016 , 3:45 am... Departed USPS Facility........LEHIGH VALLEY, PA 18002 

Your item departed our USPS facility in LEHIGH VALLEY, PA 18002 on October 28, 2016 at 3:45 am. 
The item is currently in transit to the destination.

October 28, 2016 , 3:40 am... Arrived at USPS Facility....LEHIGH VALLEY, PA 18002 

October 28, 2016 , 1:01 am... Departed USPS Facility..... FLUSHING, NY 11351 

October 27, 2016 , 10:11 am...Arrived at USPS Facility.... FLUSHING, NY 11351 

Origin Post is Preparing Shipment

October 19, 2016 , 2:34 pm.....Processed Through Facility...SHENZHEN EMS, CHINA

October 18, 2016 , 8:39 pm.....Acceptance...................CHINA

[excal32]

I am a big fan of 17track, they have a good phone app as well as a useful website. It is quite good at figuring out which Asian postal service your package is coming from, so all I ever have to do is tell it who the receiving service is (in my case, always USPS) and it does a great job of tracking from acceptance to delivery.

I used to track on the China EMS site and then on USPS site once it displayed Origin Post Preparing Shipment, now I just 17track it.

I did not know about the site you posted - will add it for when 17track is down - but seems to be the same level of detailing?

[RealBlackStuff]

Right now:

Handed over to Customs
Oct-29-16, 07:44 AM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

October 29, 2016 , 3:45 pm / Delivered, In/At Mailbox / LAKE ARIEL, PA 18436

I got the package about 1-1/2 hours ago...

Another flop/untruth from eBay...