United States Postal Service (USPS) Module

Sent the email, never got a reply back. However they moved me to the production server and the plugin is working well!

Thank you Jeff!!!

LordSatori wrote:

Sent the email, never got a reply back. However they moved me to the production server and the plugin is working well!

Thank you Jeff!!!

Does this version take dimensions into account? Seems like only the weight adjusts the price at all. And i was double checking the rates to the website and they are off by quite a bit. Is this due to dimensions? i was test a "large package"

crashball wrote:

Does this version take dimensions into account? Seems like only the weight adjusts the price at all. And i was double checking the rates to the website and they are off by quite a bit. Is this due to dimensions? i was test a "large package"

Can you explain the difference in the quotes then? i made the dimensions vary between 6x6x6 to 30x30x30 and many other odd sizes, and changing the dimension of the product alone do not change the cost of the shipping prices. Only changing the weight seems to have an effect.

[edit:] i misread you r response initially. after re-reading your response, it is clear this version does not account for "large" packages.

Also i assume the calculations are based on the product dimensions? What if i have standard size boxes and use them for many products? Say i havea product that is roughly 8x8x4, but the packagin i put it in is 12x12x8? Obviuosly the size of the packaging is going to differ than the item being shipped. This probably isn't specific to your module, but do have have to just understand that they will be slight differences and use paacking as close to the original size as possible?

crashball wrote:

Can you explain the difference in the quotes then? i made the dimensions vary between 6x6x6 to 30x30x30 and many other odd sizes, and changing the dimension of the product alone do not change the cost of the shipping prices. Only changing the weight seems to have an effect.

[edit:] i misread you r response initially. after re-reading your response, it is clear this version does not account for "large" packages.

Also i assume the calculations are based on the product dimensions? What if i have standard size boxes and use them for many products? Say i havea product that is roughly 8x8x4, but the packagin i put it in is 12x12x8? Obviuosly the size of the packaging is going to differ than the item being shipped. This probably isn't specific to your module, but do have have to just understand that they will be slight differences and use paacking as close to the original size as possible?

Hi All,

Where can I get this USPS module? UPS shipping is very high for small items.

Thanks for the hard work, looking forward to seeing it in action

Nice job! Works well! Thank you!

Hi,

A friend of mine from USA has web site and she decided to use USPS as shipping method.
I installed this plugin and it works well when we add new user from USA.

However, when I setup new user as foreigner, say, from Australia, I got following error:

"USPS error: -2147218043 Unable to calculate international postage.
Failed to obtain shipping quotes."

Her account is moved with USPS to production server, we tested it on USA users and it works flawlessly.
In USPS shipping method configuration International service is checked.

Did I miss something in configuration?

Regards,
Dragan

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for reply.
However, it seems that Jeff made a simple copy/paste error, in file usps.php:

$request .= '<Ounces>' . $package_weight_lb . '</Ounces>';

$request .= '<Ounces>' . $package_weight_oz . '</Ounces>';

Hi, I am having an few issues with the USPS shipping module


1.) It's not updating the shipping charges when I change the number of items in my cart.

2.) It appears that shipping is added only for the first item in the cart but no additional shipping is added for any other items added to the cart.

3.) It's returning the same charge for Parcel Post and Priority Mail.... this seems most odd.


Something wierd is happening.

Basically it's failing big time at this point...


I do have a functioning production USPS account, but am sharing it with a virtuemart store for checkouts. Is it possible that is the problem? It seems unlikely to me as the USPS API is the same regardless of the software used... right? And it's all Joomla.

Anyways, some advice would be appreciated.

Is this module compatible with Joomla 1.6? Also, I went to download the plugin and it can not find a directory. What do i do?

Thanks, Please respond asap!

I was trying to install it in the extension manager, however it could not find a file directory.

Do you think you moved the files at all?