Russian Post tracking service has become like a Chinese colleague

Today on the site of our beloved "Mail of Russia" appeared captcha. This means that it will no longer be possible to pick up information on mailings by a simple POST request. As a result, numerous services “Where is my package?” Will lose (for the time being, most likely) a considerable part of their audience.

There is, of course, a half-secret SOAP API about the example of the use of which the respected qnub told , but it would be logical to expect that they will now make a new full-fledged documented API. Question: how much will have to wait?
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In the meantime, the tracking service of the Russian Post has become the same as that of the Chinese brothers - slow and inconvenient for the end user.

UPD: Around 17:20 MSK captcha is removed from the service page.

UPD 2: In the comments is a link to the website of the Research Institute of Postal Service , whose employees, obviously, are introducing captcha. So, among other things, the site has a “Procurement Plan for 2012”, where it is written in black and white that 994,000 (!) Rubles are laid for training and advanced training. How much money do they need for the site and its services to work normally?

UPD 3: The comments are an excellent analysis of errors, based on which you can fix everything for free, improving service. Website developers, ay!

UPD 4: Among other things, there is a useful comment from Tseikovets about violated accessibility standards : from international WCAG to Russian GOST R52872-2007. Offering help to developers.

UPD 5: During the night, the captcha appeared for a short time several times, but then disappeared again. The news about the launch of CAPTCHA was finally cut from the mail site.