[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[philip_clarke]

Yes I see what you mean, it apepars to submit and then redirect back to the page, yet doesn't for other options like airsure.

I'll have to get some debugging into there and find out where the problem is.

Philip.

[kransom]

Hi - is it possible to use this extension to do the following:

my client wants to have the following options available:

next day £5.50,
next day before midday £10.50
next day before 10.30 £15.00
saturday before midday £32.00

I've looked at zonetables and maybe a conversion of the flat rate but I was wondering if there was a simple way out there first (not being a lazy beggar first of course).

thanks

[philip_clarke]

Basically no, especially the saturday one.

It would be quite easy to copy some modules and convert them and the text descriptions though, the saturday one would require a bit of module modification so it only turns on on a friday (I have done this before).

Philip.

[kransom]

cool thanks - oh well that'll teach me! I'll have a look at the flat rate option and doing copies of that then.

thanks again

[philip_clarke]

Flat rate may not be good if his items vary by weight, these set would be more appropiate for conversion. Royal mail 1st packet would be a good one to start with, as it has scope for weight expansion, unless his courier has a whole "scottish highlands" thing going on, and then he'd need UKZR and that will be alot more work.

Philip.

[MoonCow]

Hi,

I'm just updating my shipping mod as it's currently working with "World Zone 1" and "World Zone 2" (which Royal Mail used to be using). As Royal Mail's airmail prices are now divided between "Europe" and "Rest of World" I need to update the country codes. Can anyone here confirm that the country codes used by ZenCart are ISO 3166-1 alpha-2?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Does anyone have a list of the codes for Europe and Rest of World?

Thanks in advance,

MoonCow

[philip_clarke]

Can you confirm which version of these modules you upgraded from and to ? and also which version of zen-cart you've got ? because ZC may have installed different country codes at different times (certainly has done due to changing political landscapes).

I also do not understand the question as for the Airmail, Airsure and international signed for, they should be split into Europe and the rest of the world right now with no additional modifications needed. I have

Royal Mail defined European Countries
AL, AD, AM, AT, AZ, BA, BE, BG, BY, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FO, FR, GI, GL, GR, HU, HR, IS, IE, IT, KZ, LI, LT, LU, LV, MK, MT, PL, PT, SE, SI, SK, SM, RU, UZ, UA, TM, TR, TJ, CH, MD, MC

Royal Mail defined World Zones 1 & 2 Countries
AX, AF, DZ, AS, AO, AQ,AI, AG, AR, AW, AU, BS, BH, BD, BB, BZ, BJ, BM, BT, BO, BW, BV, BR, IO, BN, BF, BI, KH, CM, CA, CV, KY, CF, TD, CB, CL, CN, CX, CC, CO, KM, CG, CK, CR, CI, CU, DJ, DM, DO, TP, EC, EG, SV, GQ, ER, ET, FK, FJ, FX, GF, PF, TF, GA, GM, GE, GH, GI, GD, GP, GU, GT, GN, GW, GY, HT, HM, HN, HK, IN, ID, IR, IQ, IL, JM, JP, JO, KE, KI, KP, KR, CS, KW, KG, LA, LB, LS, LR, LY, MO, MG, MW, MY, MV, ML, MH, MQ, MR, MU, YT, MX, FM, MN, CS, MS, MA, MZ, MM, NA, NR, NP, NL, AN, NC, NZ, NI, NE, NG, NU, NF, MP, NO, OM, PK, PW, PA, PG, PY, PE, PH, PN, PR, QA, RE, IE, RO, RW, KN, LC, VC, WS, ST, SA, SN, CS, SC, CL, SG, SB, SO, ZA, GS, ES, LK, SH, PM, SD, SR, SJ, SZ, CH, SY, TW, TH, TG, TK, TO, TT, TN, TC, TV, UG, AE, US, UM, UY, VU, VA, VE, VN, VG, VI, WF, EH, YE, YU, ZR, ZM, ZW

and that hasn't changed for about 3 years.

Philip.

[MoonCow]

Oops, sorry, my mistake. I currently have the same as you (but that's the problem). It's just that I noticed things have changed a bit with Royal Mail (don't know when it happened). If you have a look at this page:

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/c...diaId=53600700

...you'll see that there is now no mention of World Zones 1 or 2 - it's just "Rest of the World" now.

A couple of days ago, someone from Norway (country code: NO) bought something from my website and they were charged shipping to a "World Zone 1 & 2" country, but if you look on the Royal Mail page above, you'll see that Norway is in the Europe list now.

So that's why I thought I needed to update my shipping module, but perhaps it's not just me?

[philip_clarke]

That's quite funny, I have on my wall the chart dating from last april and it's been that way "i think" since the april before that.

Someone else released the versions when I quit, and since I'm back all I have done is correct the biggest errors. They'll be a SQL patch that will update all the rates for each module to bring it up to the standards for the change on 6th April 2009 so I'll sort it out then. There's a eurozone bug that needs yet another release too, so I am focussing on "bugs in the module" and "SQL updates for data" which will split the two nicely so that then I no longer have to worry about data problems.

[philip_clarke]

Oops, sorry, my mistake. I currently have the same as you (but that's the problem). It's just that I noticed things have changed a bit with Royal Mail (don't know when it happened). If you have a look at this page:

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/c...diaId=53600700

...you'll see that there is now no mention of World Zones 1 or 2 - it's just "Rest of the World" now.

A couple of days ago, someone from Norway (country code: NO) bought something from my website and they were charged shipping to a "World Zone 1 & 2" country, but if you look on the Royal Mail page above, you'll see that Norway is in the Europe list now.

So that's why I thought I needed to update my shipping module, but perhaps it's not just me?

Oh you asked for a tricky one involving all kinds of politics and ISO dominace.

These were the tricky ones

'Azores', PT
'Balearic Islands', ES
'Canary Islands', ES
'Corsica', FR
'Kosovo', Agreed not to use !
'Madeira', PT
'Montenegro', ME
'Serbia', RS

Kosovo in particular as passports were issued during UN occupation but now the code has been agreed not to use and there is no current ISO guideline for what to use.

The current complete list of "european" codes is:

AL, AD, AM, AT, AZ, BY, BE, BG, HR, CY, CZ, DK, EE, ES, FO, FI, FR, GE, DE, GI, GR, GL, HU, IS, IT, KZ, KG, LV, LI, LT, LU, ME, MK, MT, MD, MC, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, RU, SM, SK, SI, SE, CH, TJ, TR, TM, UA, UZ, VA

which covers all of the above. BUT there will be a change in airmail and all other services entirely.

What will happen is that since world zones 1 & 2 have been withdrawn, the modules will work like this:

• If the country code is in the above list then quote for Europe,
• If not then quote for the rest of the world.

This requires modification of all of the airmail modules but is does mean another thing, which is that if one has not set up oe's shop to have the Azores in the country drop down list, then the shopper would a) not be able to buy so wouldn't get to the modules b) the system only works if the shop owner puts the Azores in the ISO Portugal code. The modules are set up about as perfect as they can be, with this new generalised setting, howevre they are still reliant on the shop being set up correctly further up then chain.

These changes along with corrections for eurozone 48, international datapost and international standard will be released this weekend on my website. It seems that whomever is vetting the modules for download is taking their time at the moment, since I have a payment module upgrade outstanding as well as 2.3 and 2.3.1 not having made it onto the add-in list on this site at the moment, so it'll come of one of my server's until I get notified that it's "live" on this site.

Philip.

Philip.