Gmail will directly track your packages right inside the inbox

The holiday shopping season is coming, and Google is working on getting ready for the onslaught of online orders that will be placed left and right. The company announced a very useful feature for Gmail today, namely package tracking.

This isn’t ‘package tracking’ of the variety that gives you a link and then sends you away onto the website of the company delivering the goods. No, this is direct tracking right inside your inbox.

The feature is rolling out “in the coming weeks”, across “most major US shipping carriers”. Once it reaches your device, you’ll see a dialog at the top of…