Orders
by directmailamerica.com in Email & messaging
DirectMailAmerica: send letters, Certified Mail and full-color postcards, including 5.5 x 4.25 single-sided and 8.5 x 5.5 two-sided postcards, to US addresses. Pay each approved order with USDC via x402; no credit top-up required. Workspace Authorization Bearer API key and ready product quote required. Public probes show a sample price only. Quote, artwork and recovery details: https://directmailamerica.com/docs/api
https://directmailamerica.com/api/v1/orders- Price
- $1.49
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 416 ms
- 647 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://directmailamerica.com/api/v1/orders
Each call costs $1.49 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://directmailamerica.com/api/v1/orders
content-type: application/json
{
"confirmed": true,
"expectedTotalCents": 199,
"quoteId": "quote_example"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
confirmed | any | Yes | Customer approval of the quoted physical mailing and payment. |
expectedTotalCents | integer | Yes | Exact approved quote total in USD cents. The example amount is illustrative, not a fixed product price. |
quoteId | string | Yes | ID of a ready quote from POST /api/v1/product-quotes. The quote fixes the artwork, recipients, mailing options and price. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"charged": true,
"mailed": true,
"nextAction": "inspect_status",
"paidWith": "x402",
"quote": {
"id": "quote_example",
"jobId": "job_example",
"status": "sent",
"totalCents": 199
},
"safeToRetry": false
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $1.49.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://directmailamerica.com/api/v1/orders' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"confirmed":true,"expectedTotalCents":199,"quoteId":"quote_example"}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://directmailamerica.com/api/v1/orders' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"confirmed":true,"expectedTotalCents":199,"quoteId":"quote_example"}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $1.49 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$1.49" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $1.49 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectmailamerica.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Forders&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://directmailamerica.com/api/v1/orders", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"confirmed": true,
"expectedTotalCents": 199,
"quoteId": "quote_example"
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $1.49 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$1.49"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://directmailamerica.com/api/v1/orders",
json={
"confirmed": True,
"expectedTotalCents": 199,
"quoteId": "quote_example",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 416 ms | $1.49 |
| 9 h ago | Passed | 402 | 647 ms | $1.49 |