Safari 5.1.2 not working with USPS Click-N-Ship Label Printing

My guess here is that the new PDF handeling is kicking in but because the PDF that's generated has a wacky (Adobe Reader?) extention Safari doesn't know what to do with it. Here's the file name that the USPS generates:

Quit Safari.

Go to /Library/Internet Plug-ins

Move the PDF Browser plugin to the Trash.

Relaunch Safari. See if that helped.

Apple Safari 5.1 and Adobe Reader/Acrobat Advisory

I tried the "Schubert Method" mentioned below and it printed the label great - yet without ANY barcodes! Maybe I goofed up something in the process. I ended up deleting Adobe Reader 10.1.1 completely (since Preview works well and I do not care for Adobe much).

I then installed Google Chrome, and logged into USPS. Chrome does not require Adobe to print postage labels. It ran seamless and worked fasted than Safari 5.1.2 (I never thought I would load Chrome, but it worked great)!

Just another idea or as a option to the endless loss of ability to print USPS labels every time Apple updates Safari. Would be nice if this wasn't an issue each time with Safari, yet each and every time an update rolls out, USPS postage labels will not print. Firefox would not print them either.

I am having the same problem since Safari 5.1.2, had to fire up Firefox...

What a pain!

I usually print my labels effortlessly, directly from PayPal after someone pays via PayPal. Yesterday I needed to print after being paid by check so I went directly to the USPS Click/Ship site. So after my label didn't print but USPS charged my account anyway, I called customer service at USPS. After one hour on hold I was given another number for tech support. Another hour later, someone finally answered and told me that Safari just changed and is no longer compatible with their system. Grr.

I asked her why USPS doesn't announce that clearly up front on their site so Mac users won't have to go through all this wasted time and frustration and she said there aren't that many Mac users compared to PC! Are they serious? Really?

Anyway, I suggested the makers of the printing programs make the effort to accommodate us "few" Mac users and she said I have to switch to Mozilla Firefox in order to print my labels. Oh, also I have to wait two weeks for a refund.

I'm no computer whiz but how difficult could it be to allow the applet access to print the label which is generated and showing right there ON THE SCREEN?

Perhaps if enough of us complain, they will consider us Mac users worthy of equal service.

I have used PayPal and the Postal site for several years. It seems that it is an Adobe Plugin that is the problem each time Apple updates Safari. As I mentioned above, Google Chrome does NOT require Adobe at all, and prints the label very well. I never thought I would back Chrome, but I print 5-10 labels a week and cannot afford waiting on a fix! Good luck!

Yeah, it quit working for me too. Safari never seems to download the pdf so the print dialog never appears. Very frustrating. May have to go to Chrome. That hurts. Come on Apple, you are our only hope.

john the toymaker

Adobe reader is not the problem either, I have tried the last 3 versions with the same results.

Thank P. Scott. Chrome works fine for me too. Too bad Safari doesn't. john@woodentoy.com

Another one of "the few" checking in. Lets get this fixed!

I actually found this solution describing similar incidents from somewhere between "05-"08. I wish I could remember who the poster was to give him credit! It worked for me and I had saved the instructions to a stickie note.

"1. Get to the print verification screen (the one that asks you if it printed)

2. Open Safari's activity window (Window > Activity or Opt+Cmd+A)

3. Double-click the largest file under the "USPS - Print Shipping ..." and the PDF will open in a Safari window. The file will look like this:

"https://sss-web.usps.com/cns/servlet/com.usps.cns.web.pdf.LabelGenerationServlet ?

Thanks for the tip, but the servlet you need to print the postage never downloads, so you cannot open it to print the postage. This is just one of the MANY problems I have encountered since downloading 5.1.2... and cannot seem to uninstall and reinstall 5.1 Thanks to Apple for their planned obsolecence, my ICAL is unusable since I have not upgraded to ICLOUD and Lion.

Thank you, Chrome solution is easy and works without lots of extra steps. Open Click n Ship in Chrome, print, then go back to Safari for all else if you want. Took me about 2 hours to find this, thanks for a happy ending.

Your welcome! I only wish others could find this easier than what you had to go through. Google Chrome may not resolve the Safari issue, but Apple has never been in any hurry to fix anything related to Adobe.

Many Happy Labels! 😎

tks for the tip, worked perfectly for me.