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About USPS Shipping Assistant®  
Check out Shipping Assistant’s new features and see how it can help you streamline your shipping tasks.
 
Create and print...
Integrate Shipping Assistant with a Pitney Bowes mailstation 2™ (PCN K7M0) postage meter to allow you to conveniently weigh mail pieces, print postage, and purchase optional insurance.
Labels for domestic shipments, including shipments to APO/FPO.
Labels for international shipments to every country served by U.S. Postal Service.
Merchandise Return labels to include with outgoing merchandise (with return postage charged to your postage payment account).
Customs forms for international shipments, or to accompany your parcels to APO/FPO addresses.


Save time
Set program preferences to automatically populate fields with frequently used values. For example, if most of your packages are sent by Priority Mail® with Signature Confirmation™ within your state, those values can be preset for all new labels.
Eliminate addressing errors: the program verifies domestic recipient addresses—before each label is printed.
Compare postage rates and delivery times for available services, as you create each label, so you can instantly choose the best service.
Read and print APO/FPO limitations and international mailing conditions and restrictions.


Organize addresses
Store frequently used addresses in USPS Shipping Assistant’s integrated Address Book.
When creating a label, verify and add the recipient’s address to the Address Book with a single click.
Easily pull a recipient’s address from the Address Book for a new label.
Organize addresses in groups, such as “Business,” “Friends,” and “Relatives.”
Find addresses quickly with the built-in search function.
Transfer addresses from other applications by importing from a CSV file.
Export addresses to a CSV file for use in other applications, or for archival storage.


And more...
Register with a unique DUNS or Mailer Identification number to attain extract files of scan event data directly from USPS Product Tracking System (PTS).
Print labels immediately or save them in the Shipping Cart to print later.
Send email shipment notifications, including label ID numbers, to your customers.
Request free, next U.S. Postal Service delivery day for Carrier Pickup.
Check package delivery status.
Send electronic Merchandise Return labels over the Internet, for customers to print themselves.
Look up a ZIP Code™ for any city and state, and look up the city and state for a given ZIP Code.
Read the latest U.S. Postal Service news and information in the program’s Message Center.
Preview and print two labels to one sheet of paper or self-adhesive label sheet.

Visit the USPS Shipping Assistant FAQs page for more information.

Ready to use USPS Shipping Assistant? Go to the download and installation page for instructions.