Shippo outage: USPS Service Degradation

Affected components

• USPS

1. resolvedOct 9, 2026, 23:10 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. investigatingOct 9, 2026, 23:08 UTC

   We are currently observing an elevated error rate on USPS's Shipment API, which typically affects Rating requests. Shippo's automatic fallback is handling affected requests, so rate quotes and label generation are not impacted. 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 77 incidents in the last 90 days, 52 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 2h 24m. See Shippo's uptime and incident history