Apps that send packages with the Shippo API

I love Shippo as a product and even more so as an example of startups solving unsexy problems with technology.

Payments before Stripe and Square were a pain in the ass. Shipping is a similar backbone to the economy that, for businesses, just sucked.

Building one universal shipping API and taking advantage of carrier bulk discounts even for the smallest businesses makes a much more demonstrable impact than a chat bot.

Good on them. Also amazing blog name (Get Put Post.)

I'm sure this is not the intended use case, but considering the trouble I've had trying to use UPS/Fedex/USPS to print shipping labels for my personal use (many of the websites suck), it'd be great to see a desktop app that used this API to find the lowest cost service, print you a label for it, and track your shipment.

I had the pleasure of getting to meet the Shippo team recently. I have to say, I was incredibly impressed. Everyone I met there was incredible: down to earth, really nice, highly motivated. I'm sure this company / team will go really far and do really great things. The two founders I spoke with seemed like genuine, great people. They have a really strong vision =)

I'm also a huge fan of the way Shippo's API service works, and the way they price their product. They're one of the few developer companies charging really fair prices for their service, and pricing is straight forward, and encourages usage. None of that enterprise BS that everyone is so eager to provide now-a-days.

I hope to use them in a future project someday =)

I've had a very similar instance.

USPS ShipNClick, for example, has "fraud detection" that freezes all accounts you've ever logged into if it detects that you've created multiple accounts and switched between them. And worse, it's a silent detection, so after you've entered all the details for your shipping label(s), it gives a "Your payment method was declined" error. No warnings or anything, just a vague error message.

When you call USPS online support, they're aware of the issue but they can't unfreeze accounts without "escalating" the issue. You get a callback in a few days saying that your account was "cleared".

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