Trying to get some packages ready to ship and USPS click-n-ship has been giving errors all morning.
Anyone else having trouble at this time?
Anyone else having trouble at this time?
Anyone else having problems with usps click-n-ship?
- Thread starter mackeral5
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Thanks. For some reason I cannot get past having items in my cart in the old click n ship, in enhanced click n ship I cannot add items to my cart.....
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My recommendation, even when it is working, ditch USPS.com and use PirateShip.com Better rates, less expensive insurance. (Thanks AGN for whoever put me on to PirateShip.com - I have saved hundreds of dollars just in the last few months with my business shipping. )
I appreciate the Pirateship referral. I was able to get through this batch of shipments.
I compared rates between pirate ship and USPS enhanced click and ship. For the same 7x7x1 5oz package pirate ship was $4.21, USPS enhanced click n ship rate was $3.81. I am unsure if it is a brief promotional period, but USPS was offering commercial rates to retail users if you used the enhanced link vs the old like.
but, click n ship is not functioning for me right now, so Pirate ship has my business. Thanks again.
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Check your cookies selection in your browsers settings. In Chrome, I usually keep cookies turned off and third-party cookies blocked but sometimes I have to enable both to get websites with shopping carts and interactive pop-ups to work properly.
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Thanks. I will do that and test again.
But, after doing a half dozen shipments on pirateship it is likely I will not book any future shipments directly with carriers again, Pirateship is way too convenient.
As Geezerhood mentioned, insured packages are wayyyyy less expensive on Pirateship.
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You are welcome. Almost everything I ship is insured for $2K+ which as noted already is where the big savings comes from. Never heard of enhanced click and ship - I will check it out. For even $5+ more per box on high dollar shipments, I would still use PirateShip.com because of the better rated third party insurance at a lower rate than USPS. Not too keen to deal with USPS on a loss.
Edit: I tried creating a test shipment using the enhanced link at usps.com and all I got was a bunch of 503 errors.
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I use PirateShip (https://www.pirateship.com/) all the time. Before I used ShipStation (https://www.shipstation.com/), but I like PirateShip is much better IMHO. USPS website is not intuitive, hard to use, and they have service issues like you are having now too often. Plus PirateShip has better shipping rates 
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