PayPal Shipping not available when trying to print USA Light Packet shipping label

pcelectronik
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Hi,

 

I am trying to print a Light Packet USA label for a package with dimensions 14cm x 10cm x 2cm and a weight of 0.15kg since yesterday evening. I am still getting the same error message that says:

 

We are not able to generate your label at this time. Your PayPal account was not charged. Please try again later.

  • PayPal Shipping is not available. We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

Light packet (4-6 days) was cheaper than USA air (4-10 days) and I would have to ask the customer to send me additional payment, which doesn't look nice. I printed 2 shipping labels last night just prior to this issue (1 XpressPost , 1 Expedited, both for Canada) and it worked perfectly.

 

Why isn't the Light Packet USA option working? I tried this option on two computers (my desktop and laptop) using the latest version of chrome.

 

Thanks for your time.

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@mr.elmwood wrote:

There is the name, address, city name length issues, but, they generate a different error message. I get specifically told, like today: "City name length cannot exceed 24 characters". I get told when I have too many characters in the name field, or address field. I do not get "not available".

 

"Paypal not available" causes me to use a different browser that always works. Usually it is Firefox that does not work causing the "not available" message and I switch to IE.


Interesting. I never got the length exceeds message like you and pj says shows. But the last time I had the issue with too many characters was 3-4 years ago. So perhaps PayPal shipping was fixed to show a message since then.

 

Learned something today. Forums are great for picking up little pieces of info like this.

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PayPal Shipping not available when trying to print USA Light Packet shipping label

I have the same problem. It has been 3 days now and tried IE, Chrome, Firefox and even another computer..In addition checked all the addresses. Still no label 😞

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Error Message

We are not able to generate your label at this time. Your PayPal account was not charged. Please try again later.

  • PayPal Shipping is not available. We apologize for the inconvenience."""
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