Quote Originally Posted by DrByte View Post
$order->total_weight is likely your only option.

The $shipping_weight is only available in the shopping cart, which is empty after the order is placed.

Or you could write your own weight recalculator using the weight calculations in the calculate() function of the shopping_cart class.
Thanks Dr. Byte.

As I'm not much of a programmer, I'm just putting the static tare value matching what I've put on the configuration, unless there is a method of saving $weight in shopping_cart class to some other (global?) varible that does not get reset and passed onto my observer. Or should resetting of $weight commented out from shopping_cart class and be reset at the end of my observer?