What Is USPS Click-N-Ship? Services, Rates, and Limits in 2026

Click-N-Ship is the free USPS web application at cnsb.usps.com where you create, pay for and print shipping labels from a personal or business USPS.com account. It sells Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express, USPS Ground Advantage, Parcel Select, First-Class Mail letters and large envelopes, and the main international package services at USPS's discounted commercial prices rather than counter prices.

It does not sell Media Mail or anything else in the Package Services class, it caps a single cart at 1,000 labels, and it is no longer USPS's answer for commercial shippers: Click-N-Ship Business Pro is retired, and USPS now points business volume to USPS Ship and the USPS APIs. USPS spells the product Click-N-Ship; searches for "click and ship" or "click n ship" mean the same tool.

What you can ship through Click-N-Ship, and what you cannot

USPS publishes the eligible list in its Click-N-Ship FAQ (article 000007500, updated August 3, 2026). Products available to every account:

• First-Class Mail Letter
• First-Class Mail Large Envelope
• USPS Ground Advantage and USPS Ground Advantage Cubic
• Priority Mail and Priority Mail Cubic
• Priority Mail Express
• Parcel Select
• Priority Mail Express International
• Priority Mail International
• First-Class Package International Service

Three more products appear only in business accounts, and only when the account qualifies: USPS Connect Local, USPS Connect Regional and USPS Connect Local Mail.

Two things are ineligible: First-Class Mail International and the Package Services class. Media Mail sits inside Package Services, so you cannot buy a Media Mail label in Click-N-Ship. USPS's FAQ sends those shipments to PC Postage vendors, meaning third-party postage software, rather than to its own app.

Older guides say Click-N-Ship excludes First-Class services. The current list includes First-Class Mail letters and large envelopes, with the weight limits covered below. If you are choosing between the domestic services on that list, see First-Class Mail vs Priority Mail and Priority Mail vs Priority Mail Express.

What it costs, and why it beats the counter

The application and the USPS.com account are free, and creating a label costs nothing on its own. You pay the postage on each label, plus any optional service you add, such as Label Delivery Service at $1.65 per label or a Pickup on Demand trip at $26.50, both covered below. USPS applies discounted commercial pricing to every Click-N-Ship label instead of the retail counter price. Which commercial structure you get depends on the account type.

The Business Rate Card is a pricing structure, not a physical card. USPS enrolls every business account automatically, describes the prices as lower business rates, and does not publish them, so the exact gap against Commercial Pricing is only visible inside a business account. The 20-pound line is the reason heavy items price the same on either account type. Business accounts must also enter a package weight for Flat Rate packaging, which was not previously required.

For the cheapest choice among these services by weight and distance, see what's the cheapest way to ship with USPS.

The limits that actually bite

The number that circulates online, ten labels per credit card transaction, is not in any current USPS guide. The real ceilings from the July 12, 2026 editions of the Click-N-Ship user guides:

• A Label Cart holds at most 1,000 labels. The app warns you once the cart passes 900. A CSV import is also capped at 1,000 rows per file.
• You pay for the whole cart in one transaction. USPS lists seven payment methods: credit or debit card, PayPal, Click to Pay, Apple Pay, an Enterprise Payment System account, third-party authorization for business accounts, and OMAS.
• The ship date can be set up to 7 days ahead. A label is a dated document, so read do USPS labels expire before you print a batch you will not ship immediately.
• Declared package value for insurance runs up to and including $5,000.
• Letters must weigh 3.5 oz or less and large envelopes 13 oz or less, with a minimum size of 6 by 4 inches. Neither can go to a USPS Smart Locker, Hold For Pickup or Label Broker.
• Reference numbers and notes are cut at 30 characters.
• A SCAN Form, the single barcode a carrier scans to accept a whole batch, is available on orders of two or more labels.

None of these limits stop a small seller. They matter once one person is typing addresses, reconciling one payment per cart, and printing a SCAN Form every afternoon.

What happened to Click-N-Ship for Business and Business Pro

Click-N-Ship Business Pro was a free desktop application for small and medium businesses. It is gone. The USPS Business Customer Gateway page for it is now titled "Click-N-Ship Business Pro - RETIRED_04032026", and the PostalPro eVS to USPS Ship Migration Tech Sheet (May 6, 2025) states that Click-N-Ship Business Pro customers, along with eVS and Premium Forwarding Services Commercial customers, must migrate to USPS Ship or the USPS APIs, with a February 2025 deadline.

If a search result or an AI answer still describes Business Pro as a current download, that page is out of date. What exists now:

• A business USPS.com account inside the regular Click-N-Ship app. That is where the Business Rate Card, the USPS Connect products, drop-shipment labels and business payment options such as third-party authorization live.
• USPS Ship, which USPS describes as its end-to-end shipping solution for businesses, and the USPS APIs for shippers who generate labels from their own systems.

For a browser-based business tool, "click and ship for business" today means a business account in Click-N-Ship.

No printer? Label Broker vs Label Delivery Service

Both options come from usps.com's Online Shipping page. Label Broker lets you buy the postage, receive a Label Broker ID, and have a Post Office print the label when you bring the package in. USPS Label Delivery Service mails a physical label to you for $1.65 per label. Letters and large envelopes are not eligible for Label Broker, so those still need your own printer.

Getting packages collected, and the mailbox question

After you pay for a cart, Click-N-Ship lets you request a pickup and print a SCAN Form from the same screen. USPS runs two pickup services with different deadlines, and mixing them up is the usual reason a pickup does not happen.

• Package Pickup is free regardless of the number of items. Request it by 2:00 a.m. Central Time, Monday through Saturday, on the day you want it. The pickup can happen at any time on the scheduled date.
• Pickup on Demand costs $26.50 per pickup (USPS Notice 123 Price List, effective July 12, 2026). Request it by 5:00 a.m. local time on the day, and the pickup typically happens within two hours of the scheduled time.

Individual items cannot exceed 70 pounds or 130 inches in combined length and girth, and not every address is eligible for Package Pickup. On the mailbox question: USPS's retail-counter rule for items over 10 oz or half an inch thick applies to packages bearing postage stamps, not to a printed Click-N-Ship label. USPS's own route for a labeled package is to schedule the pickup and tell the carrier where it will be. Step-by-step instructions are in how to schedule a pickup with USPS.

When Click-N-Ship stops being the right tool

Click-N-Ship is a good tool for a seller who packs every order personally and wants commercial postage without a software subscription. Its ceiling is operational rather than a hard limit. USPS's listed ways to create labels are one at a time, in a batch, from a CSV of up to 1,000 rows, from your address book, or from a USB scale. Orders do not flow in from a store; someone exports them, uploads them, prints, packs, and hands off the SCAN Form. Every one of those steps grows with order count, and none of them is the picking or packing itself.

That is the point where a fulfillment partner replaces the workflow rather than the postage. At Simpl, orders arrive directly from Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Squarespace, and from marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy and TikTok Shop. Simpl picks, packs and ships each order via UPS, USPS, or FedEx, with carrier selection included in the per-order rate. Orders placed before the 12pm CT cutoff ship the same day. Ecommerce fulfillment covers how receiving, storage and returns work, and pricing explains the rate: starting at $7/order, which includes pick, pack, postage and packaging, with a $750/month account minimum billed pay-the-difference. Simpl fits brands shipping roughly 50 to 5,000+ orders a month; below that range, Click-N-Ship with a business account is still the right call.