Pitney Bowes incident
Expedited Delivery Services - Incident - Initial Notification
Pitney Bowes experienced a minor incident on March 12, 2026 affecting Create Label and Get Rates, lasting 36m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Create LabelGet Rates
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 12, 2026, 03:31 PM UTC
USPS is currently experiencing technical issues with Ship API Services. This may prevent you from using Rate and Create Shipment APIs. Our Emergency Response Team is working with the USPS team to determine the full scope of the outage and will be working to restore the operation of the APIs. We will send you an update as quickly as possible.
- resolved Mar 12, 2026, 04:08 PM UTC
We experienced a technical issue earlier today. At this time we see full functionality in the Expedited Delivery Services. We continue to closely monitor the situation.