Rod
I have a fairly limited product range but only one group of products really works with OZPost (well Australia Post really). These ship in tubes, up to six products per tube.
If I sell these products in bulk (ie >25) they ship as a flat pack via Pack & Send, who handle packaging and then contract shipping via DHL, FedEx or whatever. They quote for specific quantities and destinations - automated lookup to a remote server seems impossible. Anyway I occasionally get an updated quote for my common pack sizes and destinations so really the table rate module is what is needed here.

To offer shipping prices on my website for these 'flatpacks" and tubes I'm figuring that I need to be able to invoke one shipping module or another according to package type or, given how my site is organised, by product category. Zen cart seems adept at swapping shipping modules according to zones, weight, $Order or units but not according to product category. Is this indeed an insurmountable limitation or just not thought of?

I don't know if I'm alone in this regard so I'm asking if you can provide a technical feasibility response - and if your other users can indicate an interest.

All being well maybe we can crowdfund this.

Lee