My Jabra Earwave Boom headset for my cell phone arrives today via UPS. But that's not the most exciting part. The fun part, as usual, is tracking the package using UPS's Web site. I was pleasantly surprised to see the package travel from California to New York by ground over the weekend.

However, it would have been nice to get incremental updates as to the location of the package. Activating location information for each specific package might be expensive--you'd need to make every single shipping label "live" and capable of transmitting data. However, another option would be to organize packages by the vehicle carrying them. You could enter your tracking number and get the location of the vehicle carrying your package. On the other hand, this might give away too much information.