ozpost shipping module

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20.90postage + 2.95 rego fee = $23.85 + $1.00 p&h = 24.85 is what is being quoted by your store for the linked item.

The item data is:
weight 2417gms
height=255mm
width=300mm
length=405mm

I've just entered this same data into the Australia Post calculator and am getting the same $20.90 base postage.



Cubing catches a LOT of people out if/when they are not aware of it, so don't feel too bad about this one.



Satchels tend to be a lot smaller than people realise (especially the 500gm ones).



Try it again... 'cos I can't seem to replicate this figure.



Actually, the Australia Post calulator is never wrong either, and experience tells me that any discrepency between the two different servers is always the result of different data being used (always inadvertently. It sometimes just takes a second pair of eyes to see the error).



I don't think it makes a difference on the aust Post server (I've never really experimented), but for the ozpost server there isn't an *incorrect* way.. Simply put, the ozpost server treats the longest dimension as the length, the shortest dimension as the height, and the remaining dimension becomes the width.. so a parcel with dimensions 30 x 40 x 50 is exactly the same as a parcel that is 50 x 40 x 30

Anyway, try entering the numbers into the australia post server again and see if you still get the same discrepency. you really shouldn't, because it is akin to having two pocket calculators giving different answers to the same input.. it simply doesn't happen (However, that doesn't prevent me from taking any such reports seriously, because the data tables used to perform the calculations may get changed (by aust Post), or god forbid, a hacker changing or corrupting the tables on our server

BTW, the aust post satchels are
220mm x 353mm 500g
310mm x 405mm 3kg
435mm x 510mm 5Kg

HOWEVER, this assumes a zero mm height. In practice, as you place items in the satchel the 'height' will increase and the length/width will decrease by the same amount/2.

Cheers
Rod

Hi Rod,
I am at a total loss because it is not working for me....

Here is the debugging to try give you more information.

[SCR]http://www.integritylabels.com.au/online/images/forum/parcel-debugging.png[/SCR]

These are what I am getting (without handling costs)

[SCR]http://www.integritylabels.com.au/online/images/forum/parcel-shipping-no-handling.png[/SCR]

It is really doing my head in.....
Thanks again ...
Kind Regards Casey