and reacher for the short

feature request for any website that processes online orders: provide rss feeds for the status of an order.

for a large or expensive order, such as a laptop, the order may move through various states such as verification, processing, manufacturing, quality control, shipping, and completed. i don't need an e-mail every time it changes, but it would be useful to stick the feed url in bloglines or something and monitor its progress without having to visit that company's website, remember the order number, and remember what state it was in before versus what it is now.

i've already had to write an html-to-rss interface to oqo's site for this purpose, and had to do so again today for apple.

speaking of rss, why don't fedex or ups provide native rss feeds for package tracking? bloglines has nice interfaces to both sites, but why don't either of them provide these lightweight interfaces natively?