EasyPost
Web and SaaS
shipping and postage api
SHOW HN2012
157points
83comments
#120of 1,677 in 2012
Top 8%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
15 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 46 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 9 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Address verification is wanted and would be paid for
From 3 comments
This is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm really hoping I don't have to integrate with FedEx web services for address verification. If the price is right, my company will gladly…
avidal on HNWe're currently using Google's Geocoder and Yahoo's Placefinder, which work okay, but they both have numerous flaws and various TOS policies we're ignoring for the moment. Would…
meritt on HNWould totally use this for address verification. Wonder what the pricing is.
nchuhoai on HN
Would save integration dev time for USPS, UPS and FedEx
From 2 comments
For Canadian customers, Canada Post has finally added an API to create & print labels. My company uses Stamps.com's API to print USPS labels (I have Django code if anyone's…
waterside81 on HNAs someone who is just now tackling USPS integration for the first time on behalf of a client, you certainly have my interest.
chao- on HN
Objections
Bootstrap UI looks unpolished
From 2 comments
Ugh, I'm starting to get sick of Bootstrap. You've got a great idea and you remove value from it with bootstrap... How integral can your product be if you can't even give it a…
highace on HNHm, my impression is more along the lines of, "this probably was hacked together in a weekend and might be discarded in another." It's not a fair impression, but my snap judgment…
oinksoft on HN
Carrier API terms may forbid rate comparison
From 2 comments
Out of curiosity, how are you doing this? IIRC a few years ago when I was playing around with the FedEx API it explicitly forbade using it for price comparison with other…
Aqua_Geek on HNIt is still the same, you can't even have other carrier rates near UPS rates.
marcrosoft on HN
Requests
Support for international shipping
From 2 comments
Very nice. Would you plan to offer international shipping options ? Just out of curiosity, what mapping engine are you using to geocode?
shreep on HNInternational is where this could really shine, print out at the location closest to where the letter needs delivering & avoid international prices
nulluk on HN
Syntax highlighting and clearer API docs
From 2 comments
Could you add syntax-highlighting to the examples? Using httpie as an alternative to curl would also make that easier. :)
kmfrk on HNHm, my impression is more along the lines of, "this probably was hacked together in a weekend and might be discarded in another." It's not a fair impression, but my snap judgment…
oinksoft on HN
Return labels as PNG or PDF via Accept header
From 1 comment
You could bake this into the REST API via the "Accept:" header. The default when not specified is whatever you set, but the caller can specify "Accept: image/png" to get a PNG…
biot on HN
Questions
Which shipping carriers are supported
From 1 comment
Would love to use this for my ecommerce site (StartupThreads) as we move to a custom system. Most interested in the shipping price comparison: what providers are you supporting?
frankdenbow on HN
Whether first class stamps can be printed
From 1 comment
Somewhat related question - are these types of services capable of printing first class letter postage ie something to use in place of a "forever" stamp?
mindslight on HN
Alternatives named
RocketShipIt desktop software
From 1 comment
I've been using this for years now and love it: https://rocketship.it/ It is a slightly different concept, you pay once and get code that gives you a uniform interface for…
jontas on HN
PostalMethods
From 2 comments
http://www.postalmethods.com/
toomuchtodo on HNhttp://www.postalmethods.com/lp/postcard-api http://www.viapost.com/ I know there are others too but I can't find them at the moment.
johns on HN
Stamps.com API
From 2 comments
Stamps.com uses SOAP and is terrible. I would love a nice Json/REST based shipping API.
kenrikm on HNFor Canadian customers, Canada Post has finally added an API to create & print labels. My company uses Stamps.com's API to print USPS labels (I have Django code if anyone's…
waterside81 on HN
Sincerely API and Click2Mail
From 2 comments
http://dev.sincerely.com/ is another.
scottmotte on HNI looked for a service like that a year or so ago and found this: https://click2mail.com/email-to-mail At the time their signup process was broken so I couldn't test it out, but…
lost-theory on HN