# USPS Shipping?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/usps-shipping/105743>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 2, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/usps-shipping/105743 "2007-06-02T00:13:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![hunter\_h](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/bc79bd/32.png) [@hunter\_h](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hunter_h)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/usps-shipping/105743/1 "2007-06-02T00:13:25Z")

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Howdy,

Does anyone have or know of a plug in or gem that does USPS (US  
Postal Service) rates based on their Web API?

I know the shipping gem does FedEx and UPS, which is awesome, but I  
haven’t seen anything for USPS so I thought I would ask before I did  
anything on my own.

Cheers,  
Hunter

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**Author:** ![hunter\_h](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/bc79bd/32.png) [@hunter\_h](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hunter_h)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/usps-shipping/105743/2 "2007-06-02T02:33:34Z")

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Hunter H. wrote:

> I know the shipping gem does FedEx and UPS, which is awesome, but I  
> haven’t seen anything for USPS so I thought I would ask before I did  
> anything on my own.

None that I know of. The shipping gem seems to be abandoned as well -  
last update 05. Have you had any success using the shipping gem? I’ve  
tried to figure out how to track a package with it and have had no luck  
(nor can get a response on if it can even track packages.

I’ve resorted to having ruby talk to perl scripts to do my shipping  
tasks.