Slim down the USPS packaging description?

[d0ugparker]

I thought that when new changes were proposed for testing that
all existing USPS subscribers were provided related link
information where such testing could be performed.

I don't remember seeing anything, frankly.

Those notified would have also received a route of feedback
related to it.

Okay...

But it seems that such a communication path continues to exist
even outside of the period of pre-release.

The short answer is, "Let's get the USPS to join the forum, here."

The long answer is:

Were I the USPS, and based on the way most businesses run, IMHO
I would put as little time and energy into my shipping updates as
possible.

As USPS, I wouldn't ignore Zencart nor its modules, but I would have
little interest in paying someone to fiddle with Zencart's module's
features or its display methods, nor would I pay that same programmer
to develop options for end-user customers to customize their
implementation of Zencart requiring the USPS shipping module.

I'm not complaining, but hoping I'm coming across as a motivated
end user and administrator, attempting to make rational arguments
toward getting USPS to join in, listen to some common sense wish-list
requests, and actually implementing the best of them. It's not an
unreasonable fantasy, dream, request. At a minimum, start their own
FAQ on the shipping module. I don't see one anywhere!

As it stands right now, I manually record my settings, I shut down the
module, the new USPS shipping module's plugged in, I activate the new
module, I repopulate my settings in the new module, and once the
new shipping module is plugged in and reset, there's zero customization
possible.

What I'd like to see might be a feature to have the outgoing, old
module write its values to a local XML file, mark itself as OLD only if
its successor is in place, and once the old file is marked OLD, enable
the radio button on its NEW replacement version to activate the NEW
version, all in the same window.