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Outage in Royal Mail

Royal Mail OBA Platform Issue

Resolved Minor
August 17, 2026 - Started 12 days ago - Lasted about 6 hours
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Summary AI Generated

Royal Mail's OBA (Online Business Account) platform experienced an unplanned outage lasting approximately 6 hours, preventing service updates from being retrieved and making newly granted service access invisible to affected users. Label generation and end-of-day manifesting remained unaffected throughout, though billing data flow was temporarily suspended as a controlled measure during recovery. The Royal Mail team fully restored OBA and the incident was resolved after active monitoring confirmed normal operation.

We are currently unable to get service updates from Royal Mail systems which means if you have recently been given access to a new service this will not be visible. You can continue to generate labels and do your end of day manifesting as normal and we will hold any billing data for services other than tracked until OBA is working as expected. We will provide an update in due course.

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RESOLVED 12 days ago - at 08/17/2026 08:44PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 12 days ago - at 08/17/2026 06:05PM

The Royal Mail Team has confirmed that OBA has now been fully restored and is available for use and we are actively monitoring the services.
We would like to extend our sincere apologies for the disruption caused by today's unplanned outage and thank you for your patience and support while we worked to resolve the issue.
If you experience any further issues or have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

IDENTIFIED 12 days ago - at 08/17/2026 04:29PM

The Royal Mail team are continuing to make good progress on restoring OBA to normal service and are expecting to provide another update shortly.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. We'll continue to provide updates as recovery work progresses.

IDENTIFIED 12 days ago - at 08/17/2026 02:41PM

The Royal Mail team are continuing to work on restoring OBA to normal service and are making good progress.
In the meantime, please continue to use your shipping systems as normal and generate labels as you usually would. There is no impact to label creation or your day-to-day shipping activity.
As part of the recovery process, we are temporarily holding billing data from being passed into OBA. This is a planned measure to support a smooth and controlled restoration of service and does not affect your ability to continue processing items.
We'll resume the flow of billing data once full OBA access has been restored and the platform is operating normally.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. We'll continue to provide updates as recovery work progresses.

INVESTIGATING 12 days ago - at 08/17/2026 02:41PM

We are currently unable to get service updates from Royal Mail systems which means if you have recently been given access to a new service this will not be visible. You can continue to generate labels and do your end of day manifesting as normal and we will hold any billing data for services other than tracked until OBA is working as expected. We will provide an update in due course.

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