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USPS Click-N-Ship PDF with 10.4.5
Authored by: jpwav716 on Feb 21, '10 09:50:48AM

Flash forward to 10.6 Snow Leopard.

I never had a problem before.

Here is a response I got from the USPS.
You can print a shipping label with Click-N-Ship <https://sss-web.usps.com/cns/landing.do> if you are using a Mac computer with OS 10.x or higher. Please note that the Safari browser will not work at this time due to a technical issue involving the use of Adobe’s advanced PDF elements and objects interaction with the Safari browser. Please use Firefox. If you follow the following steps, you should be able to set Firefox up before you print the label.

1) Open Firefox (If you do not have firefox, you can download it here: http://www.mozilla.com)
2) Select the word Firefox located next to the apple icon to bring up the drop down menu
3) Select Preferences from the drop down menu
4) Select Applications under preferences
5) On the Applications menu, under Content Type, look for Portable Document Format or PDF, or LabelGenerationServlet
6) Across from that under Action, select to open with Adobe Reader
7) Once the change shows in the Application Menu, close the menu and your browser session
9) Start a new Firefox browser and sign into USPS.com and attempt to print the labels

Additionally, Apple Preview does not support printing the label, you must use Adobe Reader Version 7.0 or higher. If you require additional assistance, please contact us again




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USPS Click-N-Ship PDF with 10.4.5
Authored by: buckarette on Mar 28, '10 02:47:18PM

Thank you, thank you jpway716! I have struggled mightily with this, but today it worked! It's not as smooth and quick as my old pc way, but maybe part of it is because I'm a new mac user and everything takes me twice as long to figure out. Thanks again; I can now stop beating my head against the wall.



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How it works as of July 2010
Authored by: jpdemers on Jul 05, '10 12:02:15PM

This worked for me, but only after trolling through all of the different names that FireFox uses for pdf documents, and assigning all of them to the Adobe Reader program. That at least produced a downloaded file (com.usps.cns.web.pdf.LabelGenerationServlet, found in my "Downloads" folder), which itself had to be assigned to Adobe Reader before it could be opened and printed.

I wish they were as smart as UPS.com, which generates the same sort of label without any trouble!



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