Target doesn't run its own parcel fleet for orders shipped to your home. When you place a standard "ship to home" order on Target.com, the item is handed to one of three national carriers — UPS, FedEx, or USPS — and Target decides which one automatically. There's no fixed default and, on most items, no way to choose: Target routes each order to whichever carrier reaches your address fastest for the shipping speed you picked, so two orders placed the same day can arrive with two different couriers.
Same-Day Delivery works completely differently. It's fulfilled by Shipt, a delivery company Target owns: a personal shopper picks your items off the shelves at a local Target store and drives them to your door inside the delivery window you chose. A Same-Day order is followed as live order status and notifications in the Target or Shipt app — there is no UPS/FedEx/USPS-style tracking number to look up. Only standard shipped orders produce a carrier tracking number. Target.com ships within the United States only — all 50 states, US territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam, and APO/FPO/DPO military addresses — and does not ship internationally.
Items from Target Plus, Target's third-party marketplace, are shipped directly by the seller and usually arrive in a separate package from Target-owned items, but sellers are still limited to UPS, USPS, or FedEx — so the tracking carrier is the same familiar set. This page lists the carriers that deliver Target orders in 2025–2026, what each one does, and how to recognize its tracking number. If you'd rather not work out which carrier's site to check, 24hTrack auto-detects the carrier from the number and follows the parcel in a single timeline.
One of the three national carriers Target uses for standard ship-to-home orders. When UPS is assigned, the package travels on the UPS network and every scan from pickup to delivery shows on UPS tracking. Target doesn't let you pick UPS yourself — it's chosen automatically based on your address and the shipping speed. Tracking numbers: 18 characters — 1Z followed by 16 letters and digits
A national carrier Target assigns to many ship-to-home orders. FedEx handles the parcel from the fulfilling store or warehouse to your door, with movement scans available on FedEx tracking. Economy services may hand the final mile to USPS in some areas. Tracking numbers: A 12-digit number (some services use 15 digits)
The postal carrier Target uses for a large share of ship-to-home orders, especially lighter parcels, and the only option for US territory and APO/FPO/DPO military addresses. The parcel moves through the postal network with delivery scans on USPS tracking. Tracking numbers: A 22-digit number that usually begins with 9 (USPS IMpb tracking)
Target's own same-day service, run by its subsidiary Shipt. A personal shopper buys your items at a local Target store and delivers them within the window you choose. It's tracked as live order status and app notifications — the shopper starting your order, an updated delivery window, and delivery — rather than a carrier tracking number, so there's no separate number to paste into a tracking tool.
For standard orders shipped to your home, Target uses UPS, FedEx, or USPS, and assigns the carrier automatically based on your address and the delivery speed you chose. Same-Day Delivery is handled by Shipt — a Target-owned company whose shopper picks your items at a local store and drives them to you. Whichever carrier is on a shipped order is the one that brings the parcel to your door.
There's no separate 'Target' number — the tracking number belongs to whichever carrier was assigned. A USPS shipment is a 22-digit number that usually starts with 9; a UPS shipment is 18 characters beginning with 1Z; a FedEx shipment is typically 12 digits (some services use 15). Paste whichever one you have and 24hTrack will detect the carrier for you.
On most items Target doesn't let you pick the carrier — it automatically routes each order to whichever of UPS, FedEx, or USPS delivers fastest for your address and the shipping speed you selected. That's why two orders placed on the same day can arrive with different couriers, and why the carrier can change from one order to the next.
Same-Day Delivery is fulfilled by Shipt and is followed inside the Target or Shipt app as order status, not with a carrier tracking number. You'll get notifications when the shopper begins shopping and can tap to watch progress in real time, plus a message if the delivery window changes. Because there's no UPS/FedEx/USPS number, a same-day order can't be looked up on a carrier's tracking site — only standard shipped orders have a carrier number.
No. Target.com ships within the United States only — all 50 states, US territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands, and APO/FPO/DPO military addresses. It does not ship to international addresses or to freight forwarders. Its former international delivery program (Borderfree) ended in 2020.
Tracking often stays quiet in the gap between a label being created and the carrier's first movement scan — an order can show 'label created' with no updates for a day or so, especially over weekends. If a shipped order's tracking stalls well past its estimated delivery window, the carrier on the label — UPS, FedEx, or USPS — can confirm where the parcel is; for a Same-Day order, check the status and notifications in the Target or Shipt app instead.
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