The blogosphere is pretty silent on the USPS API being experiencing an outage from (according to our tests) approximately 12/19 9:45pm to 12/20 6:30am Pacific.
Some Shipwire customers may have noticed that some USPS rates were unavailable as real-time rates streamed into their shopping cart checkout. If you want more information on this see http://www.shipwire.com/api
Other than it being annoying when the shipping rate API’s of major carriers experience issues; I’m blogging about this because of a few reasons: 1) It happened last year too. See USPS API Failure. 2) The blogosphere is not reporting it. But twitter is. (see image below). It’s pretty interesting how Twitter has now surpassed the blogosphere to be a just-in-time news engine. 3) Shipwire is not the only one to notice the holiday tradition.
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Nate Gilmore
Nate oversees our channel development and developer network, as well as our marketing and public relations. Previously, Nate was at Concentric, acquired by XO Communications, where he ran product management, sales and marketing. Over his six year career with Concentric, he developed dozens of new business channels, by initiating new products for small- and mid- size businesses, developing partner programs for those products, and working with web developers and systems integrators to provide ongoing support of those products. Nate has also held various legal positions in intellectual property and business law. He holds a B.A. in History, and a J.D., from Santa Clara University.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 12:36 am
[...] Frequent readers of this blog will remember the multiple blog posts over the past few years about USPS API failures during the holiday season. You can bet that after the first time we experienced that, we put in place some disaster [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 6:41 am
I am interested in finding out the cost of sending packages overseas to our fighting men…