Paperless Post incident

SMS sending outage

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Paperless Post experienced a major incident on December 16, 2025 affecting Text message sending and iOS App and 1 more component, lasting 19h 38m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Dec 16, 2025, 04:28 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 17, 2025, 12:07 AM UTC
Duration
19h 38m
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 16, 2025, 04:28 AM UTC

Affected components

Text message sendingiOS AppAndroid App

Update timeline

  1. investigating Dec 16, 2025, 04:29 AM UTC

    We are currently experiencing an issue that is preventing SMS messages from being delivered. We are investigating the issue and will resend any affected messages once the issue has been resolved.

  2. identified Dec 16, 2025, 06:12 PM UTC

    We have identified the cause of the text issues and will keep you posted once a solution has been implemented. Thank you for your patience.

  3. monitoring Dec 16, 2025, 11:24 PM UTC

    We have remedied the text issues, which are now sending to recipients, and will continue to monitor the site.

  4. resolved Dec 17, 2025, 12:07 AM UTC

    We have fully resolved the text sending issues at this time. Any queued text messages have now been sent. Please let us know if we can help with anything else: [email protected]