- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Maintenance
- Components
- USPS APIs
Summary
EasyPost says scheduled upstream USPS API maintenance is in progress, and USPS domestic and international label purchases, SCAN Form creation, and PMOD requests may fail intermittently. Tracking and account authentication are not affected.
Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from EasyPost's own updates.
What to do
Check whether you use EasyPost USPS APIs. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Check that everything you run on EasyPost came back after the window closed 2026-11-06 05:03 UTC.
Subscribe to EasyPost's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed
https://down.guide/feed?provider=easypost works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.
Updates from EasyPost 3
- scheduled
USPS is performing a scheduled rolling release of its APIs on Thursday, November 5, from 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM ET (5:00 PM to 9:00 PM PT). During this window, USPS domestic and international label purchases, SCAN Form creation, and Open and Distribute (PMOD) requests may fail intermittently for a few minutes at a time. Failed requests can be retried. Tracking and account authentication are not affected.
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
Reports count in aggregate; nothing about you is shown.
Corrections
None so far.
Something wrong on this page? Report an error or send us a note. Every fix is listed here.
Questions about DWN-4b9d6edb62
Is this EasyPost maintenance still going on?
No, it ended 2026-11-06 05:03 UTC.
How long did it last?
4h 4m, from 2026-11-06 01:00 UTC to 2026-11-06 05:03 UTC, by the times EasyPost posted.
What was affected?
EasyPost named USPS APIs.
What caused it?
EasyPost hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
EasyPost's official status page, https://www.easypoststatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.