USPS new rates May

[DrByte]

A staging environment will be available in early April. Updated user documentation will be posted on USPS.com at http://www.usps.com/webtools. Please look for a follow-up email in early April notifying you of specific dates and detailed information.

We received the same notice and will be addressing it when the new testing area becomes active.

What is the status on this. Is it the USPS that is not up to speed?

It's not an issue of "up to speed" or not.

USPS has not yet set up their staging area, nor updated their documentation, nor sent out the "follow-up email in early April".
Until then, your USPS rate calculations will continue to operate fine.
If you are looking for an update on their progress, contact USPS.

Zen Cart can do nothing to support the May 2007 rate changes or their API changes until they publish the details of the changes.

[cshart]

It's not an issue of "up to speed" or not.

USPS has not yet set up their staging area, nor updated their documentation, nor sent out the "follow-up email in early April".
Until then, your USPS rate calculations will continue to operate fine.
If you are looking for an update on their progress, contact USPS.

Zen Cart can do nothing to support the May 2007 rate changes or their API changes until they publish the details of the changes.

Thats what I thought, here at zencart things are addressed rapidly and people are helpful. The USPS not so much.

Thanks for the answer.

I will get visiting their website.

C.

[signs]

Are there any updates on this? My shopping cart is completely malfunctioning. Can't get to checkout_shipping.php due to the page going white. The shipping estimator in the shopping cart view does the same thing.

I could offer just UPS but that means I have to go out to take the packages to be mailed. I'm handicapped and don't want to have to resort to that.

[rtw819]

It would appear the USPS must have made some additional changes this evening... I've turned on the email debugging output of the USPS rate calculator module on our site, and we are now consistently seeing this error message:

<Error>
<Number>80040320</Number>
<Description>An unexpected system error has occurred. Please try again later or contact the System Administrator. </Description>
<Source></Source>
</Error>


The error message isn't very telling, Googling doesn't tell much, but the same 'white screen of death' during checkout is occurring for us as well.

[DrByte]

It would be most prudent to talk to USPS Customer Support when there is a problem occurring on their servers ...

At the present time, they have not yet updated their online documentation to reflect the details of any changes they are making. Thus there is little that can be done until they get their systems back online. It's still uncertain what changes will need to be made to code, if any, let alone to what extent.

[signs]

In case anyone wants to use a temporary work around, here's what I have done on my site. I implemented the Table Rate and edited the text for how it displays (in includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/table.php) to read "USPS Priority Mail", rather than "best way". Then I set up the table based on weight and estimated prices based on what it would normally cost me to send to the farthest away zones.

Until USPS gets off their butts and gives us some documentation, this will work for me.

[leonardawilson]

For those of you with USPS issues, is this domestic, international, or both?

So far, as of 3:43PM CST 4-25-07, I haven't had this problem with USPS, but I have only had domestic packages in the past 2-3 weeks.

From what I can tell on the USPS email that I got too, the main issue here is international.

[ronlee67]

signs:

Great idea. Took it to heart and have my table rates ready to go if needed.

Ron