USPS has announced “USPS Web Tools Price Change” update notice effective January 2, 2011.

We are committed to staying current with our integrations with partners like USPS and others. Despite the notice, nothing needs to change in your current site configuration at this time. As always, we intend to make use of the most up to date integrations that USPS and others provide. We will notify all of our customers as soon as there is an update for this available.

While the update becomes available for development in January, it will not be mandatory to take action until May, 2011, when retiring technologies will be laid to rest.