United States Postal Service · Terms of Service
United States Postal Service terms of service
Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10. 15 statements quoted word for word; anything the page does not say is shown as unstated, never guessed. APIs.io verifies none of it.
Effective date
Updated: 1/22/2026
Permitted use
summary: Shipping and mailing transactions only
User warrants, represents, and agrees that interaction with the Services is for the sole purpose to facilitate and manage USPS shipping and/or mailing transactions and to receive information regarding Your mail.Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
summary: Commercial informational use of data
The data You access through the Services may be used for commercial informational purposes solely to provide information regarding Your shipping and mailing transactions using USPS products and services.Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Prohibited use
summary: Datamining or scraping
use the Services for datamining or datascraping purposes;Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
summary: Building AI models or databases for others
use the Services to develop a database, infobase, artificial intelligence model, or similar database service, or other information resource in any mediaRead from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
summary: Reselling data or Services
resell or license for a fee the data from the Services or any derivative thereof;Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
summary: Address lists
use the Services or data for the purpose of creating an address list;Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
summary: Competing product
use any of the data, APIs, or Services to offer a competing product without specific written permission from the Postal Service;Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
summary: Reverse engineering
translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, or create derivative works based on the ServicesRead from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Caching
stance: conditional
copy, store, edit, change, prepare any derivative work of or alter in any way any of the information or data provided through the Services or usps.com except for uses related to Your mailing, shipping, and purchase of USPS products and servicesRead from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Redistribution
stance: prohibited
User may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, data, databases, software, products, or servicesRead from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Attribution
Governing law
jurisdiction: United States federal law; District of Columbia federal courts
THIS AGREEMENT IS GOVERNED BY UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW. USER AGREES THAT ALL DISPUTES AND MATTERS WHATSOEVER ARISING UNDER, IN CONNECTION WITH OR INCIDENT TO THESE TERMS OF USE SHALL BE BROUGHT BY USER IN AND BEFORE A FEDERAL COURT LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIARead from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Liability cap
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, WILL THE POSTAL SERVICE BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM OR RELATE TO THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE MATERIALS AND/OR INFORMATION PROVIDED UTILIZING THE SERVICESRead from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Termination notice
period: without notice
The Postal Service reserves the right to terminate User's access to the Service at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Change notice
We reserve the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Service is offered.Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
Rate or usage limits referenced
The Services have a limit on the number of requests that You may make in a given day. Such limits are dependent on the type of API used or the type of data requested.Read from United States Postal Service's own page on 2026-11-10
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