USPS Shipping Module - No estimated transit time for International shipments

[zaaep005]

Hi,

I use Ver. 2013-07-28 J5 of USPS Shipping Mod, and everything is working fine except the estimated transit time for the international shipments. When I switch the shipping address to domestic, the transit time shows right after each shipping methods, i.e. Priority Express, Priority Mail & First Class Mail. I just called the USPS tech support, but they weren't much of a help.

I run Zen Cart 1.3.9h in both English & Japanese with PHP 5.2.17 & MySQL 5.0.95. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thank you,

[zaaep005]

Hi again,

I just want to clarify the issue that I described above. Here is what I get for the domestic address:

Available Shipping Methods Rates
United States Postal Service (1 Boxes) (1 lbs, 7 oz) (Priority Mail™ (2 - 3 days)) $5
United States Postal Service (1 Boxes) (1 lbs, 7 oz) (Priority Mail Express™ (1 - 2 days)) $16
Store Pickup (Walk In) $0


For the international, the estimated transit time is missing for each service:

Available Shipping Methods Rates
United States Postal Service (1 Boxes) (1 lbs, 7 oz) (Priority Mail International®) $43
United States Postal Service (1 Boxes) (1 lbs, 7 oz) (Priority Mail Express International™) $56


Would that be possible to show the transit time for the international shipments as well?

Thank you for your input.

[Ajeh]

Could you post your Ship To and Ship From and the directory /logs or /cache depending on your version of Zen Cart, v1.3.9h should be in /cache, can you Zip the log file that looks similar to:
SHIP_usps_Debug_YOUR_DATE_TIME_US_YOUR_ZIPCODE.log

Also, could you humor me and ...

Go to your Zen Cart Admin and go to Tools ... Developers Tool Kit ...

In the bottom input box enter:
usps.php

Then, select Catalog ... click SEARCH ...

What comes up on the lines for:
* @version $Id: usps.php

[zaaep005]

Ajeh,

Thank you so much for your reply.

Ship To is Japan and Ship From is Florida. Please see the search result below.

/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/usps.php
Line #10 : * @version $Id: usps.php 2013-07-28 ajeh $ Version J 2013-07-28

/includes/modules/shipping/usps.php
Line #12 : * @version $Id: usps.php 2013-07-30 ajeh Version J5 $


I tried to locate the Debug log but couldn't find anything in /cache.

Thank you again for your assistance on this.

[Ajeh]

Go to your Modules ... Shipping ... and hit EDIT on USPS and down at the bottom is a setting for DEBUG set this to Logs ... now they will generate for you when you try to get a quote from USPS ...

Later when all is happily working for you, you can turn off that setting and delete the logs that are created ...

[zaaep005]

Got it. I ran a test order and generated a log below.

http://www.bvgolfusa.com/log/SHIP_us...JP_1530064.log

Best regards,

[zaaep005]

Ajeh, I use grams as the weight unit for my ZC, and that is why those numbers are so large. Then translate the weight into lbs in shipping.php before it is processed by your usps module. But the trans. time wasn't showing even before I changed the unit to gram.

[Ajeh]

You may be using grams but USPS knows nothing about them and there is not conversion for this so USPS is using weight ...

I am not sure how you are doing this conversion so that USPS gets the right weight and how your use of grams might affect things ...

Other than changing the text from lbs to grams ... what have you do to manage the weight conversion?

[zaaep005]

Ajeh,

The only file that I have modified other than changing the text lbs to gram is /includes/classes/shipping.php. I added a conversion fourmula (*0.0022) onto the quote function for the shipping box weight (Tare Rates: Small/Medium: 10:500 Large: 10:0). BTW, I changed the transit time setting to NEW but had no luck.

As I stated, I made the unit change recently, and the trans. time had not been showing with lbs either.

Regards,

[Ajeh]

Could you Zip your file for:
/includes/classes/shipping.php

maybe I can see something quirky happening when I try to use that while testing this, as I am getting the days to show but perhaps something is causing this issue related to the changes for the conversion ...