It's not really new, it's been an option for years for either the SENDER or RECIPIENT to request status updates.
In this particular current situation it appears Pitney-Bowes have signed us up without asking.
I can only hope they are not bombarding my buyers with this **bleep**

"What else could I do? I had no trade so I became a peddler" - Lazarus Greenberg 1915
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