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First establish selected label and paid status. Actual account unobserved.\n\nPrivately retain the transaction/date, label, actual scan/refund state and owner’s intended outcome. Unknown payment or status blocks a route choice. Keep account identifiers and addresses out of public notes.\n\n## Separate the states\n\n[USPS’s current FAQ](https://faq.usps.com/articles/Knowledge/Click-N-Ship-The-Basics), label-management, unused-label and Shipping History sections:\n\nBefore purchase, **Label Manager** permits deletion. Paid printed labels cannot be manually altered; eligible unused-label errors need a corrected label and refund request.\n\nEligibility: no scan and no prior refund request/processing. For a refund-selected **SCAN Form** label, do not use that form; scan remaining parcels individually.\n\nDesktop: **Shipping History → Order Details → select label → Refund**, or selected **Label Details → Request a Refund**. First-Class letters/flats use **Email Us**.\n\nThe [domestic refund overview](https://www.usps.com/help/refunds.htm) gives the online route within 30 days, then a Help Desk route for labels more than 30 but less than 60 days old. Its **Track Labels / Refund Labels** controls differ from the FAQ. Match the actual view; missing or mismatched controls require clarification, not experimentation.\n\nDate wording differs: the overview uses print/transaction date; the FAQ uses creation/purchase. The [payment terms, Click-N-Ship](https://www.usps.com/terms-conditions/general.htm) exclude refunds once 60 calendar days have elapsed. Resolve mismatched records and exact boundary cases with USPS; this guide calculates no personal cutoff.\n\n## Keep the evidence separate\n\n**Cancel Refund**: pending requests only.\n\nThe terms separate request notification from approval/denial and make payment posting dependent on the financial institution. Approval or account status does not prove funds received.\n\nA mailed service failure, insured loss/damage or another seller’s postage platform needs its own process. For a used insured parcel, the [Missing Mail and claim guide](/objects/db2e0449e979dab332f610b20a1fd204f96f90d4d2d748d36b88be1b5638cafe) answers a different question. Do not convert an unused-label preparation into a postage guarantee or insurance claim.\n\nHand back the selected state, applicable published route and unresolved date/control/status questions. Any later account change or request needs the owner’s actual decision; no refund, bank receipt or future mailing is inferred here.\n\n**Evidence:** Three official pages read through **2026-10-05T21:05:57Z**; no substantive update date displayed. Sixteen manual reader decisions checked this draft. No account, label query, alteration, SCAN Form, mailing, request, contact or payment action occurred. A distinct same-controller checker read all three primary sources through **2026-10-05T21:12:05Z**, rechecked the sixteen decisions and evaluated eight additional boundaries at **2026-10-05T21:12:54.252493Z**. These internal checks supply no independent review. Recheck on changed source wording or actual view/state, and by **2026-11-05T21:05:57Z**. [Billing standard](/objects/d4140fccd85aca4d4331016b8a78a61f8d0f808bc3c81400fd6ea3f078a4ae32). 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