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USPS Airmail Letter


tcpope

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Hi all,

 

Not sure if anyone else has discovered this, but I ran into a problem with quotes for International shipping from the US. I wasn't receiving a quote for "Airmail Letter".

 

For others with the same problem here is how to fix.

- backup files

- edit the file 'catalog/includes/modules/shipping/usps.php'

- search for 'Airmail Letter Post'

- replace with 'Airmail Letter-post'

 

Now it works.

 

I contacted USPS and they responded with the following email:

 

Dear USPS Customer,

 

Thank you for contacting us. In order to resolve the issue where you are

not receiving shipping rates for Airmail Letter Post, you will need to

change your coding to parse through our XML for the following value:

 

<SvcDescription>Airmail Letter-post</SvcDescription>

 

During a recent update to the International Rate Engine, a hyphen was placed

into the value for Airmail Letter Post, thus disabling any parsing for that

particular string. By inserting a hyphen between "Letter" and "post", you

will resolve any failures your shopping cart is encountering.

 

Thank you,

Justin

 

USPS Internet Customer Care Center

[email protected]

800-344-7779

7:00AM - 11:00PM EST

 

Cheers,

 

Tim Pope

www.ShooShoosUSA.com

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I'm having similar problems. I've fixed all but Global Priority variable.

 

Here is the email I got from USPS for the changes needed.

 

Dear USPS customer,

 

The International Rates API engine was recently updated which in turn led to

some unexpected changes to the XML values we respond with.  Below are the

affected SvcDescription Strings and what they are now being returned as:

 

Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (large)  IS NOW Global Priority

Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Large)

Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (small)  IS NOW Global Priority

Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Small)

Global Priority Mail - Variable Weight (single)  IS NOW Global Priority

Mail - Variable Weight (Single) 

Airmail Letter Post  IS NOW Airmail Letter-post

Economy (Surface) Letter Post IS NOW Economy (Surface) Letter-post

 

These changes will affect your shopping cart's ability to parse through the

list of possible international services.  Please verify/modify your parsing

selections to reflect these changes in order to ensure accurate parsing and

the display of all available options to your end customer.

 

USPS Internet Customer Care Center

[email protected]

800-344-7779

7:00AM - 11:00PM EST

0054

 

So, the one I can't figure out is Priority Mail - Variable Weight (Single). This change has not fixed this problem.

 

I'm using USPS module version 2.4. I tried 2.5, but, that appears to not be compatible with my version of osCommerce site.

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Thank you SOOOOO much for this post. I've been having this problem for quite some time. I had reported this nearly a year ago in the bugreports and it was closed as "fixed in cvs", which at that time it was. And then it cropped up again.

 

I just changed the USPS file as stated here and it works perfectly now! Thanks again.

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I'm having similar problems.  I've fixed all but Global Priority variable.

 

Here is the email I got from USPS for the changes needed.

So, the one I can't figure out is Priority Mail - Variable Weight (Single).  This change has not fixed this problem.

 

I'm using USPS module version 2.4.  I tried 2.5, but, that appears to not be compatible with my version of osCommerce site.

 

THANK YOU! A simple under minute edit and whala!

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This fix worked great! Thank you! Here it is for those that would like to see it.

 

Change this:

      $this->intl_types = array('GXG Document' => 'Global Express Guaranteed Document Service',
                               'GXG Non-Document' => 'Global Express Guaranteed Non-Document Service',
                               'Express' => 'Global Express Mail (EMS)',
                               'Priority Lg' => 'Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (large)',
                               'Priority Sm' => 'Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (small)',
                               'Priority Var' => 'Global Priority Mail - Variable Weight Envelope (single)',
                               'Airmail Letter' => 'Airmail Letter Post',
                               'Airmail Parcel' => 'Airmail Parcel Post',
                               'Surface Letter' => 'Economy (Surface) Letter Post',
                               'Surface Post' => 'Economy (Surface) Parcel Post');

 

To this:

      $this->intl_types = array('GXG Document' => 'Global Express Guaranteed Document Service',
                               'GXG Non-Document' => 'Global Express Guaranteed Non-Document Service',
                               'Express' => 'Global Express Mail (EMS)',
                               'Priority Lg' => 'Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Large)',
                               'Priority Sm' => 'Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Small)',
                               'Priority Var' => 'Global Priority Mail - Variable Weight (Single)',
                               'Airmail Letter' => 'Airmail Letter-post',
                               'Airmail Parcel' => 'Airmail Parcel-post',
                               'Surface Letter' => 'Economy (Surface) Letter-post',
                               'Surface Post' => 'Economy (Surface) Parcel-post');

 

I am still having trouble with my shipping rates rounding up. Does anyone have a fix for this? Say priority mail is $3.85 at check out it rounds it up to $4.00. Any help would be great!

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The above code is no longer accurate, as we found out today with our first international customer trying to make a purchase! No matter what one picks, the first option (Global express guaranteed Doc service) is what would show up on the order confirmation page.

 

I did more searching online and found a slightly different version (on the bug report for this), but that didn't fix all of the options. So I started changing one thing at a time until I found the combination that works as of today. So here it is for anybody else having this problem!!!

 

As an FYI, the parsing is case sensitive -- so if one letter is lower case when it's looking for upper -- it'll fail and default to the first shipping option. Picky Picky!!

 

I have retested selecting ALL available shipping options shown below, and ALL work as they should now.

 

We are running on OSC 2.2 MS2 and using the USPS shipping module that came stock.

 

Find this code (around line 52 for me) in file /catalog/includes/modules/shipping/usps.php

 

BACKUP FIRST!!

 

Replace with this code:

 

$this->intl_types = array('GXG Document' => 'Global Express Guaranteed Document Service',

'GXG Non-Document' => 'Global Express Guaranteed Non-Document Service',

'Express' => 'Global Express Mail (EMS)',

'Priority Lg' => 'Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Large)',

'Priority Sm' => 'Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Small)',

'Priority Var' => 'Global Priority Mail - Variable Weight (Single)',

'Airmail Letter' => 'Airmail Letter Post',

'Airmail Parcel' => 'Airmail Parcel Post',

'Surface Letter' => 'Economy (Surface) Letter Post',

'Surface Post' => 'Economy (Surface) Parcel Post');

 

 

Specifically, the words Large, Small, Single and Post (all 4 occurrences), all had to have the first letters made capital from lower-case. The dash - between Letter and Post for the Airmail and Economy options has to be removed now too.

 

Hopefully this works for everyone else. It got us up and running! WHEW!!! :thumbsup:

 

Lets hope USPS stops mucking with this code!!

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Sorry -- the code did not keep the spacing I put in -- never posted before, so I'm a newbie at this!

The lines starting at GXG Non-Document thru Surface Post should be indented.

 

But you'll see it when you come to this section in your code.

 

Cheers!!

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