Tracer

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who, or that which, traces.

II. Tracer ·add. ·noun An inquiry sent out (·esp. in transportation service) for a missing article, as a letter or an express package.

III. Tracer ·add. ·noun A person engaged (·esp. in the express or railway service) in tracing, or searching out, missing articles, as packages or freight cars.