{"id":329,"date":"2012-03-27T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2012-03-27T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:27:18","slug":"us-postal-service-crippled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/us-postal-service-crippled","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service Crippled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US postal service&#8217;s online shipping system is crippled for the foreseeable future. The online portal has been down for us off-and-on from March 21st through March 27th, and has been completely FUBAR for the past 3 days. We have temporarily disabled USPS shipping methods on our website since there&#8217;s just no reliable way to ship or track packages via their system right now. <\/p>\n<p>We noticed a &#8220;new&#8221; online interface at USPS.com arrived around March 20th, which was awful. What used to take 4 screens\/steps now took 8. It sort of worked for about one day, then it crashed and has been a disaster ever since. We&#8217;ve been quadruple charged on some shipments (on our end), had the online system time out countless times, etc. We&#8217;ve called USPS and they said they&#8217;ve had patches applied multiple times over the past week, but each time the problems have increased. <\/p>\n<p>As soon as this problem is fixed we will reset the USPS shipping options for our online ordering system. But even when it is &#8220;working&#8221; the tracking for USPS is flat out terrible, so it should only be used if you must save that $1 on shipping, and only when you don&#8217;t need something to arrive on time. Meanwhile we&#8217;ll add FedEx shipping options soon to give you more choices for shipping domestically and internationally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US postal service&#8217;s online shipping system is crippled for the foreseeable future. The online portal has been down for us off-and-on from March 21st through March 27th, and has been completely FUBAR for the past 3 days. We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/us-postal-service-crippled\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}