Update: A USPS spokesperson posted the following on our Facebook wall just after midnight:
USPS web sites up and running. The issue impacting several USPS online applications on Sunday has been resolved. If customers have questions, contact the Help Desk at 800-522-9085.
Some USPS web sites that handle customer transactions, such as tracking, buying stamps, and locating a post office are unavailable this afternoon. Intellisent’s blog reported that the Postal One! system was undergoing unscheduled downtime early this afternoon:
intelisent.com/postalaffairsb… #USPS PostalOne Unscheduled. Outage
— Intelisent (@intelisent) June 17, 2012
… and postal commentator Alan Robinson noted that there was a rash of complaints online about USPS services being unavailable.
@intelisent @postalnews There are tweets that indicate that the USPS tracking system is also out today.may be a complete IT failure
— Alan Robinson (@CEP_Observer) June 17, 2012
@CEP_Observer No. 1 barrier to #USPS Full Service IMb adoption is system instability, same old story
— Intelisent (@intelisent) June 17, 2012
@CEP_Observer @postalnews Official USPS communications on PostalOne came at 12:26 pm, IMb Tracing at 3:53 pm EST
— Intelisent (@intelisent) June 17, 2012
@intelisent Which means that it has been down between 5 and 9 hours so far.The question is when does it go back up.
— Alan Robinson (@CEP_Observer) June 17, 2012
Dear @USPS, many of the links on your site are broken. 1) Hold Mail 2) Reserve a PO Box 3) Renew a PO Box just to name a few.
— Heidi Braun (@JCHeidi) June 17, 2012
@USPS What is up with the online system?I can’t print a label!
— Phyllis Knox (@ypa1939) June 17, 2012
“This service is currently unavailable” come on USPS! WTF
— Puzzle Man (@glassjaw) June 17, 2012
