- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Maintenance
- Components
- USPS
Summary
Shippo says USPS scheduled maintenance on its Transaction API is in progress as of November 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC, lasting up to 4.5 hours. Label purchases for International, Military, and U.S. Territory shipments are unavailable, while domestic label generation is not affected.
Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from Shippo's own updates.
What to do
Check whether you use Shippo USPS. Check your stack
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Updates from Shippo 3
- scheduled
Hi team, USPS has a scheduled maintenance window for its Transaction API on November 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC, lasting up to 4.5 hours. Impact: Label purchases for International, Military, and U.S. Territory shipments will be unavailable. Domestic label generation won't be affected. We recommend retrying any failed requests after the maintenance is complete.
provider
- scheduled
Maintenance will begin as scheduled in 60 minutes.
provider
- in_progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
provider
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Corrections
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Questions about DWN-769034712c
Is this Shippo maintenance still going on?
No, it ended 2026-11-15 15:30 UTC.
How long did it last?
4h 31m, from 2026-11-15 11:00 UTC to 2026-11-15 15:30 UTC, by the times Shippo posted.
What was affected?
Shippo named USPS.
What caused it?
Shippo hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
Shippo's official status page, https://status.goshippo.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.