Re: UPS Residential or Commercial
Here is what I can tell y'all from my experience working in shipping departments on and off over the last 6 years.
As far as the residential or commercial address the rules keep changing. It used to be based upon what zip code you were in would determine if you were residential or commercial. For example, rural places were definitely considered residential, but what if you were running a business? Then (and I cannot find it again, go figure) they (UPS) once stated on their site what was considered residential. If your building (a home office) had a separate door way to and from your house vs the company, you would be considered commercial instead of residential, even out in the sticks. But if you were a residential in the city, and no separate door way, guess what, you got residential rates which are higher.
A link about residential and other need to know rates:
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/shi...hr=residential
UPS Rates Guide:
http://www.ups.com/media/en/2008_area_surcharge.pdf
There (was and unfortunately it is waaaaaaaay outdated) a third party UPS XML mod that you can download from here:
http://www.brandnamebatteries.com/contributions/ and read about it in the Zen Cart Wiki here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/3rd_party_contributions_-_Shipping_Modules_-_UPS_XML
But unfortunately it too does not have the code to work with box dimensions (mentioned in the documentation) as well as utilize properly the residential surcharge.
Hopefully soon some super coder will come along and save the day, otherwise there may be quite a few sites going out of business.
Just my .02 cents
0be1
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