Shippo outage: USPS Service Degradation

Affected components

• USPS

1. resolvedSep 29, 2026, 13:26 UTC

   The issue has been resolved and the service is now operational.

2. investigatingSep 29, 2026, 11:58 UTC

   Hi Team, we are currently observing an elevated error rate on USPS's Shipment API. Rate quotes and label generation will be unavailable. We have reached out to USPS and are actively monitoring the situation. We will provide a further update as soon as we receive one from the carrier.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Shippo's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does Shippo have incidents?

Shippo reported 94 incidents in the last 90 days, 58 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 2h 7m. See Shippo's uptime and incident history