Problem with shipping estimator- need to ship by ounces-

[Mir13]

Hello,
I have been searching for an answer to my problem and cannot seem to find one-
I am shipping greeting cards, they weigh .08 ounces. USPS is rounding up to .10 and charging 1.34, but on the USPS website the charge is .62

UPS is showing $8.85 to ship-
This is what I have in the shipping/packaging section-

pkg tare sm-md 0:0
large pkg 10:0
max weight shipped 50lbs

Machineable is set to true in USPS module
Using Zen Cart version 1.3.8a

I just don't know what else to do-
Can someone please help me?

Thank you!

[Ajeh]

I have not had time to test this, but as you need a minimum amount with UPS it is defaulted to .1

    $ups_shipping_weight = ($shipping_weight < 0.1 ? 0.1 : $shipping_weight); 

I cannot recall if you can lower that amount or not, without going through testing and such myself in the ups.php shipping module ...

[Mir13]

Thanks for the quick response!
I will try that, any way to make the USPS module calculate correctly?

Thank you.. Thank you..

[Ajeh]

Dontcha hate it when you seek help from the dyslexic and they see UPS and USPS as the same thing ...

NOTE: weight must be less than 35lbs and greater than 6 ounces or it is not machinable

Might notice that there is a similar thing in usps.php for minimum weight that you could moof around with:

$usps_shipping_weight = ($shipping_weight < 0.1 ? 0.1 : $shipping_weight); 

[Mir13]

Thank you so much!
I will play around with the code and see what happens-

[Mir13]

Hello-
I have played with the code, changed to .08 found this thread-

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...lculate+weight

and have tried entering the converted amount- .000625 for the shipping weight in the product . that's the equiv for .08 ounces to lbs.
Still no luck-

UPS is still high charging 8.00 or more no matter what I do to the coding-
Can someone help me out please?

[Ajeh]

I am afraid I cannot get a quote on USPS for less than 0.10 on the weight ... you may need to customize the code or make a new shipping module if you want a different rate to apply when this happens ...

If you have a minimum amount that you want to charge for the low weight, you could try the Free Shipping Options freeoptions and set the weight for when Weight <= X.XX and set the handling fee as what you would want to charge ...

What this would do is show that shipping module for low weight and you can change the text display to read something else ...

Now, you can run the USPS and Free Shipping Options freeoptions and they will both show but the customer can choose the method ...

[Mir13]

Ok, I really don't want to get into making that many changes-
Is it possible to use the per item shipping module, and charge .42?
In my attributes, since we are selling the cards in packages, I have it set to add and additional amount of weight-
Will that still work with the per item shipping? Or does it only apply to the USPS shipping module?
Right now, the cards are $4.97 and I want them to stay like that, but I need to ship them at .42 for a sibgle card- packages are more.
Thank you!

[Ajeh]

If all products can ship for $0.42 each, then the Per Item item shipping module will work for you ...

If you have other products that ship at different rates, then you would need to go further with this and may need to customize things a bit more ...

[Mir13]

Sorry, I probably did not explain it right-
A single item should ship for .42, if they buy two or more of that item, it should adjust to what USPS would charge to ship those cards-
I have set up additional weight for the packages we sell- 4 cards, 8 cards, 16 cards- so on-
So, it does work by adding the additional weight and charge for it, but the price for one card is not correct in the first place in the USPS module.

SO, if I set up a per item weight/charge at .42, will it still go by the additional weight I have set up for the items in the Attributes section?

I guess that is the real question now-

Thank you so much!
I really need to get this resolved soon, or I will be forced to put all cards at the cost including shipping and go with the free shipping module-

Not exactly what we were wanting to do-
I know there are other people out there that sell items weighing under 1lb-
What do they do for the shipping if USPS is not calculating the first class amt corectly?