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Shippo Outage History

Every past Shippo outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 494 Shippo outages since January 2016. The 148 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major March 12, 2026

March 2026: Temporary disruption affecting USPS Military and U.S. Territory Shipments

Detected Mar 12, 2026 12:52 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 13, 2026 2:22 PM EDT · Duration 1 day

Shippo experienced a 25.5-hour disruption that prevented label generation for USPS shipments to U.S. military addresses and certain U.S. territories. The company worked with USPS to address the carrier-related issue. The incident was resolved on March 13th, restoring normal service for affected shipment destinations.

Major March 12, 2026

March 2026: Elevated error rate on USPS Transaction API

Detected Mar 12, 2026 12:21 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 12, 2026 12:56 PM EDT · Duration 35 minutes

Shippo experienced a major incident affecting USPS label generation via their API, preventing the creation of both domestic and international USPS labels. The team investigated the issue in coordination with USPS and began seeing recovery after 35 minutes. The incident was fully resolved with normal service restored.

Major March 11, 2026

March 2026: Elevated error rate on La Poste Tracking

Detected Mar 11, 2026 10:16 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 11, 2026 10:59 AM EDT · Duration 43 minutes

Shippo experienced elevated error rates with La Poste's Tracking API due to an outage on the carrier's side, causing delayed tracking updates for packages shipped through La Poste. The incident lasted 43 minutes and was resolved once the carrier's API was restored.

Major March 8, 2026

March 2026: USPS Manifest outage

Detected Mar 8, 2026 6:32 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 8, 2026 9:22 AM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Shippo experienced a major outage with USPS manifest functionality following a scheduled USPS maintenance window, resulting in high error rates for manifest operations. The incident affected USPS services but did not impact actual shipments. The issue was resolved after 2.8 hours.

Minor March 5, 2026

March 2026: Elevated error rate on ONTRAC Transaction API Service

Detected Mar 5, 2026 9:38 AM EST · Resolved Mar 5, 2026 10:45 AM EST · Duration about 1 hour

Shippo experienced an elevated error rate on the OnTrac Transaction API due to a carrier-side system outage, causing delayed transaction updates for OnTrac shipments. The issue was identified as originating from OnTrac's systems, with their engineering team working on the resolution. The incident was resolved after 1.1 hours once the carrier's API was restored.

Minor March 3, 2026

March 2026: USPS QR Code Service Disruption

Detected Mar 3, 2026 10:32 PM EST · Resolved Mar 4, 2026 12:43 AM EST · Duration about 2 hours

Shippo experienced a service disruption affecting USPS QR code functionality due to a connection issue that began around 6:00 PM PST. The outage prevented users from accessing USPS QR code services for approximately 2.2 hours. USPS confirmed the issue was resolved and the service returned to full operational status.

Major February 27, 2026

February 2026: Elevated error rate on canada Post Shipment Service

Detected Feb 27, 2026 9:39 AM EST · Resolved Feb 27, 2026 2:28 PM EST · Duration about 5 hours

Shippo experienced elevated error rates with the Canada Post Shipment API for 4.8 hours, causing delays in shipment updates for users relying on Canada Post services. The Shippo team contacted the carrier to address the issue and monitored the situation throughout the incident. The error rate was reduced and services returned to normal operation.

Minor February 24, 2026

February 2026: Elevated error rate on Royal Mail (SF) Tracking

Detected Feb 24, 2026 8:03 AM EST · Resolved Feb 24, 2026 8:32 AM EST · Duration 29 minutes

Shippo experienced elevated error rates from Royal Mail (SF)'s Tracking API, causing delays in tracking updates for packages using this carrier. The incident lasted 29 minutes while the team contacted Royal Mail and monitored the situation. The issue was resolved and tracking updates resumed normal operation.