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I'm the OP. I would have loved to use some sort of tracking or delivery confirmation. My school's registrar didn't offer any options other than "ship now via basic postal mail" or "pick up." I guess I could have had everything mailed to me and then remailed it with delivery confirmation. But that's wasteful, shouldn't be necessary, and significantly increases cost. I'm not aware of any delivery confirmation service for 60 cents that works with flats.

I am delurking in order to vent about the transcript collation process for graduate applications. I just learned that another school never received my UG transcript. This means that of 8 schools I applied to, at least 4 have "no record" of receiving my transcripts, despite them being sent out at least 15 days, and often more than 30 days, before deadlines (that means I ordered 20-45 days beforehand). This means a total of at least 6 transcripts/10 lost in the ether. Schools have been nice about letting me know and letting apps go along to committees for consideration with unofficial (scanned and emailed) copies (in one case I had to ask for the status and then send it in), but surely there is a better way? I have no idea how or if this will hinder my chances for admission to extremely competitive programs. I imagine it's also very expensive for some people; for my UG institution, order fees were relatively cheap (but I had no option for sending transcripts in a trackable fashion.) It's just very frustrating. I had no such problems with GRE scores.