Is EasyPost down?
Updated Oct 08, 2026 23:30 UTC. StatusBird re-checks EasyPost's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Operational
- Changed
- Jul 10, 2026 23:10 UTC
- Held for
- 90 days
EasyPost is currently operational as of Oct 08, 2026 23:30 UTC, with no outage reported on its official status page. StatusBird reads EasyPost's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.
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EasyPost uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 0 major or critical EasyPost incidents totalling 0 minutes of downtime, for 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade, across 64,416 independent checks. Full history: EasyPost reliability report.
EasyPost's 90-day uptime of 100.00% is above the Shipping category average of 99.84% across the 11 services StatusBird monitors in that category.
EasyPost risk in the next 24 hours
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any EasyPost degradation in the next 24 hours at 2% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 0% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often EasyPost has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
- 2 degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
- no major outages in the last 180 days
Scored Oct 08, 2026 23:26 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.
How do I get notified when EasyPost has an outage?
Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and status.easypost.com as of October 08, 2026.
- Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when EasyPost enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
- EasyPost's own status page. status.easypost.com offers the subscription options on status.easypost.com, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when EasyPost confirms an incident.
Full guide: Best downtime alert services for online store owners (2026).
About EasyPost
Shipping API used by developers to integrate multi-carrier shipping. EasyPost outages affect label creation, tracking, and rate fetching across all carriers.
StatusBird monitors EasyPost every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.
EasyPost last five incidents
StatusBird recorded zero non-operational EasyPost readings in the last 90 days, across 64,416 checks every 2 minutes.
What to do when EasyPost is down
A EasyPost outage is not something you can fix, but how you respond in the first 15 minutes decides how much it costs you. This guide covers confirming the outage, limiting the damage, and keeping customers informed.
How do I confirm EasyPost is actually down?
Check two independent sources before changing anything in your store. First, StatusBird's live EasyPost status page, which is based on independent checks every 2 minutes. Second, EasyPost's own status page at status.easypost.com. If the official page still shows green, do not assume you are wrong: vendors often acknowledge incidents well after they start. If both look clean, the problem is more likely your store's configuration or a specific integration.
What does a EasyPost outage look like?
- Label purchase API calls fail or time out for every carrier, not just one
- Checkout shipping rates fail to load or show errors
- Address verification requests fail during checkout
- Tracking webhooks stop arriving and tracking pages go stale
- 5xx errors from api.easypost.com in your application logs
What breaks in your store
An EasyPost outage cuts off every carrier at once for stores that route all shipping through its API, which makes it a bigger single point of failure than any one carrier. Label purchases fail, so fulfillment stalls across the whole warehouse, and checkout shipping rates error out or disappear if quoted live. Tracking webhooks stop flowing, so your store's tracking pages and shipment notifications go stale even though carriers keep delivering.
For context, EasyPost has had no major incidents in the last 90 days of StatusBird's independent monitoring (100.0% availability), so a real outage is unusual. That makes it easy to mistake one for a problem on your end, which is why confirming first matters.
What to do during the outage
- Check status.easypost.com to confirm the outage and which endpoints are affected.
- Fall back to flat-rate or table-rate shipping at checkout so orders keep completing without live quotes.
- For urgent shipments, buy labels directly from a carrier's own website or software instead of through the API.
- Queue label purchase jobs with retries so pending shipments process automatically when the API recovers.
- After recovery, reconcile purchased labels against your orders to catch any duplicates from retried requests.
These steps follow the same logic Google codifies in its Site Reliability Engineering chapter on managing incidents: establish what is actually happening, contain the damage, and communicate clearly while the incident is still running.
Frequently asked questions
EasyPost is down and I ship with multiple carriers. Why are all of them failing at once?
Because EasyPost is the single API layer between your store and every carrier, an EasyPost outage looks like a total carrier failure even though USPS, UPS, and FedEx themselves are fine. You can still buy labels directly from each carrier's own tools while the API is down.
Will I get charged for label purchases that errored out during the outage?
Requests that failed outright do not create labels, but requests that timed out after being accepted can. Once EasyPost recovers, list your recent shipments through the dashboard or API, match them against your orders, and refund any unused duplicate labels.
After the outage
Once EasyPost recovers, verify the affected workflows end to end rather than trusting the status page. Note the start and end times while they are fresh: if you are on a paid EasyPost plan with an SLA, documented downtime is what a service credit claim is built on. See how to claim SLA credits for the process.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks EasyPost's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the EasyPost reliability page and current status on the EasyPost status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
This playbook was published separately until September 2026. It now lives here, alongside the live EasyPost status it applies to.
EasyPost status FAQ
Is EasyPost down right now?
No. EasyPost is operational in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Jul 10, 2026 at 23:10 UTC and has lasted 90 days. Last checked Oct 08, 2026 at 23:30 UTC.
How often does EasyPost go down?
StatusBird recorded zero major or critical EasyPost incidents in the last 90 days, at 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade. Minor degradation is excluded from that figure.
What is the chance EasyPost has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any EasyPost degradation in the next 24 hours at 2% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 0% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often EasyPost has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
What should I do when EasyPost goes down?
Confirm the outage is on EasyPost's side rather than in your store, protect whatever the outage is breaking, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. The full step-by-step playbook for a EasyPost outage is on this page, under 'What to do when EasyPost is down'.
How do I get notified when EasyPost goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to EasyPost's own status page at status.easypost.com.
What should I do when EasyPost goes down? The full playbook is on this page.
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"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."
Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird
Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/easypost, accessed October 08, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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