USPS Mobile®: Frustrating mobile app experience
Users find the USPS Mobile® app to be ineffective and frustrating, often describing it as pointless and a terrible user experience. Many complaints highlight that the app simply redirects users to Safari, undermining its intended purpose.
19 different people have complained about this since 20 Jul 2026, most recently on 28 Sept 2026.
- “First off the tracking info is absolutely useless it's not a tracker at all and is rarely updated if your lucky enough to get that much but I have had no such luck.”
- “App is useless until that’s fixed, easier to keep your tracking open in safari.”
- “I hate the fact that I can longer see my tracking details without having to open a stupid browser.so annoying!”
19 people in 19 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain moderate, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 19 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 19 people using USPS Mobile®
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 95% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (43/100)
- Since
- 20 Jul 2026 → 28 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- USPS Mobile®
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 5% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint1895%
- Request15%
Sources
19 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original. 1 post was held back as off-topic; all 19 still count toward the score.
…App displays old information next to website making it pointless! First off the tracking info is absolutely useless it's not a tracker at all and is rarely updated if your lucky enough to get that much but I have had no such luck. You only seem to cater for your fellow countrymen and no one overseas can get the…
Strong complaintUSPS Mobile® — What’s the point of this app? So the new update is awful. It just links to the website. What is the point? You copy the tracking number from you web browser and it copies it to the app and then the app takes you back to the website. Absolute garbage
Strong complaint…rowser. This was a bug that was supposedly fixed, but it appears not. App is useless until that’s fixed, easier to keep your tracking open in safari.
Strong complaintUSPS Mobile® — App works good but stop directing us to browser I hate the fact that I can longer see my tracking details without having to open a stupid browser.so annoying!
Strong complaintFrustratedUSPS Mobile® — Doesn’t work This app is awful and doesn’t work half the time. I can’t even label my shipments like I used to be able to do. And every click takes you off the app and onto usps.com.
Strong complaint
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Why did it move?
Score 39.4 → 40.5 · 15 Oct 2026, 11:00 → 12:15 UTC
How the score was measured38 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Frustrating mobile app experience a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 19 different people described it independently, in 19 mentions, the earliest from 20 Jul 2026 and the most recent from 28 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 63/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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