Current answer
Shippo experienced a major incident: USPS Service Degradation. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Oct 16, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
USPS
Incident Timeline
Identified
USPS has confirmed that the current disruption is caused by scheduled maintenance on their systems.
Oct 16, 2026 at 5:23 AM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Oct 16, 2026 at 5:22 AM UTC
Investigating
we are currently observing an elevated error rate on USPS's Transaction and SCAN form APIs. Label generation for International, Military, and U.S. Territory shipments and SCAN form generation will be unavailable; domestic label generation is 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.
Oct 16, 2026 at 4:06 AM UTC
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