USPS Ground Advantage replacing USPS First Class Package

-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.ariesgamesandminis.com
-- HikaShop version -- : 4.7.2
-- Joomla version -- : 3.10.11

With the pending discontinuation of the USPS First Class Package service with the US Postal Service...how is HikaShop going to implement the new USPS Ground Advantage service and when will that happen?

Also...for those of us using the "Price per product" option...this needs to be implemented as an automatic switch otherwise there will be many people having to shut down their shop and manually change every single listing of their products.

Thank you

I don't know anything about API stuff or coding, so I will leave that part up to you guys...but here is the article from the Postal Service about it...

about.usps.com/newsroom/national-release...icing-simplicity.htm

nicolas wrote: Hi,

Well, they're saying that

USPS Retail Ground, Parcel Select Ground, and First-Class Package Service will be incorporated into USPS Ground Advantage during summer.
We'll see how it goes. We'll be happy to adapt the plugin to include the new name and remove the old ones if they decide to do so.

Let us know if you hear about changes to the API. For now, it's still as before, so we can't make any changes in the plugin as we don't know what and how they'll change it.

Nicolas...just wanted to circle back around to this post. I've received a notification from ShipRush that First Class Package and Parcel Select (aka Retail Ground) will be combined into the USPS Ground Advantage shipping.

Is the shipping plugin going to offer USPS Ground Advantage as a shipping option selection so customers are not confused by the changes in shipping service? Based on experience of past events in changes with the US Postal Service...someone along the way will get upset if we as sellers just start changing the service on them as the two mentioned will no longer be available.

Also...if there was a way to do the change that took the blocks some of us have in place and carried them over to the new shipping option so we don't have to go product by product with thousands of items...that would be SINCERELY appreciated. The image attached is just an example of what I mean from one item on my product pages.

Thank you

nicolas wrote: Hi,

I did find this:
www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/202...ls-release-notes.pdf
Which explains that the API will be backward compatible. So normally, there is nothing to do for us.

The official documentation doesn't yet provide precise information about what we need to do to add the changes on our end:
www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/rat...pi.htm#_Toc138410716
For example, for first class service, the plugin has to provide the mail type to the USPS API with the parameter FirstClassMailType
I suppose that the name of that parameter will evolve but I don't know what it will be.

Regarding your question with the shipping price per product, it should not be a problem. I think you'll just have to edit the "first class" shipping method and select "ground advantage" instead of "first class" in the services option once we release the plugin with the new service added to the list.

nicolas wrote: Hi,

Indeed. It's surprising that USPS is releasing a new service without updating the API documentation to reflect the change. I would recommend raising the issue with your contact at USPS.

nicolas wrote: Hi,

We don't have any contact at USPS. Could you provide your contact with the necessary information so that we can reach to them ?

nicolas wrote: Hi,

Thanks. I've sent an email through there.

Has there been any further developments with this? I have the newest version of HikaShop installed 5.0...and Ground Advantage is still not showing up but has been in use since July.

Thank you sir! I just tried it on the test site and it looks like it's all working, but I will test it later today and contact back if there's any issues. Most appreciated!