Shippo incident: USPS Rating – Degraded Performance

Affected components

• USPS

1. resolvedAug 16, 2026, 15:20 UTC

   This issue has been resolved and service back to operational.

2. investigatingAug 16, 2026, 12:50 UTC

   We are currently experiencing intermittent issues with USPS authentication, which may result in missing USPS rates for some merchants using their own USPS carrier accounts. USPS authentication has begun recovering, but intermittent failures are still occurring. Our team is actively monitoring the situation and will provide further updates as they become available.

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 45 incidents in the last 90 days, 30 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 2h 31m. See Shippo's uptime and incident history